If I put food out for birds or deer or whatever, and then after training them to eat their and not be scared of me I then proceed to shoot them one day ... that is NOT hunting, it's target practice.
Hunting involves searching. Shooting your dog while it's feeding at it's dish is ridiculous. If you want a trophy, go buy one.
BUT, that's just my opinion, and the government should certainly stay out of it.
Agreed, but the government isn't the underlying issue...the underlying issue is a bunch of "sportsman" who want to tell the rest of the sportsman in their state how to hunt.
Their time and money would be better spent making sure PETA and HSUS are penned up.
That's exactly what they're doing. Person A has 8500 dollars he's will to spend for a big bull and person B has a big bull he's willing to sell for 8500 dollars. Everybody’s happy!
“Hunting involves searching.”
So if they don’t hunt in a manner you approve of they shouldn’t be allowed to hunt?
So, in your opinion, hunting from a tree stand or deer blind isn't "hunting", then? After all, in a stand or a blind, you're not searching, but sitting in a static location and waiting for the animals to come to you. I guess duck and turkey hunting, which involves staying concealed and calling the birds to you, isn't hunting either.
That's funny, because I recall seeing deer stands all over Texas when I was stationed at Hood for five years. In fact, every hunter I knew, be they Texans or soldiers from other states, hunted from deer stands, and didn't stalk at all. Needless to say, there are millions of hunters across the nation, and right there in Texas, who would disagree with you.
"Shooting your dog while it's feeding at it's dish is ridiculous."
No sir, your comparison is what's ridiculous. While many hunters may not care for canned hunts, I doubt any would compare them to shooting a pet dog feeding at its dish. If you were indeed a hunter, you'd know how downright silly that comparison is, so I seriously doubt you've ever hunted for anything, except bargains and parking spots.
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