okay who here hunts?

I dont believe hunting has to involve the kill but rather leaving with a fixed target in mind, working to find that target and getting it be it on film, canvas, the table ect. I mean to capture a photo of an animal involves every bit as much skill as it takes to kill it, perhaps even more having to get closer and maybe having the desire for the animal to be in a specific pose when you capture the image.

Hunting is just great!

 

my prey is usually inspiration and i generally catch it perrifferally, and i don't feel like i have to be looking for any one thing to be a part of the rest of existence, but that exploration, and the subsiquent creativity it inspires, is the real gratification.

i hunt with a camera for 'industrial' (and other artifactual) subjects harmoniously intigrated into their natural surroundings, finding any place where you can, without being blocked by keep out signs or acusations of abbetting 'terrorism' is certainly a real challange.

and i can and do understand why people need to protect themselves from idiots by protecting idiots from them selves which accounts for a lot of that "keep out" signage. more so then i can understand why people choose to be ignorant of and indifferent to the dangers of how things actually work.

but that doesn't stop me from wishing more of the keep out signs weren't there, or needed to be, or that i could crawl relatively unnoticed under fences like rats or cats, or fly over them like little mentally challenged biridies, who, while undoubtedly enjoying their aerial mobility, for the most part, have little or no understanding or appreciation of what an emense priviledge they have in not even knowing what a keep out sign is.

of course all creatures have just as much need for caution, most of those that survive in the wild learn it, or don't.

once upon a time there was no such thing as an insurance industry. i suspect people may have been at least a little more cautious and considerate when they didn't think throwing money down that particular hole absolved them of nature's reality of their need to be.

of course there were horrible things that happend as a resault of economic motivation to cut corners. to a considerable extent they still do.

the really great thing about the diversity and reality of nature, for me, is precisely that it does NOT begin and end with human society and its arbitray and pretentious assumptions. while both nature AND tecnology, and esspecially their all too rare, harmounious intigration, are endless sources of creative inspiration.

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My dog and I can track an animal - I might have a rifle , pistol, bow, spear, knife or anything that kills and sooner or later we will catch up to that animal.

But there is no good reason for us to be doing that today so I will probably just go for a nice walk to the creek and take a photo. I love being in the bush partly because I know I can survive in it (even if I was a vegetarian) there’s flour to be found in roots, there is mushrooms berries est. And partly because the bush is a pretty awesome and humbling place to be in. Cheers and happy hunting!

 

I eat what I kill though.. Duck meat is suprisingly good

 

^ it's amazing *nods*

 

I play duckhunt on nintendo original. No big deal.

 

i ground up 30 pounds of venison yesterday and tunred it into ground hot italian venison, the meat was from the deer i shot last season

 

I usually hunt small game, grouse, wild turkey, the occasional boar, not really fond of hunting with guns, good with snares, cross bow and a knife...took down a small boar once that was the biggest thing I have ever killed to eat...that was s ome gamey pig still!

 

I hunt the hunters that decide to shoot at things too close to my house.

 

like I said I dont use guns, or hunt in he usa, you yanks scare the fuck out of me!
in canada a hunters liscence firearms or not is an ordeal to aquire....

bunch of patriotic firecrackers ready to go off is a great people to arm

 

I've been duck and deer hunting. It provided sustenance, so I had no moral qualms with it. I'd prefer to get my meat that way.

But I didn't have much affinity to the red neck side of my family that hunted, so I didn't go much.

No as an adult I feel I should bathe in the blood of an animal before I eat it. metaphorically. The hunt seems a gesture of respect for the animal I'm going to consume.

 

I would never hunt and no offense to anyone in this thread but most people around here that hunt seriously annoy me. They tend to also like the rebel flag or George Bush and talk with an accent.

 

We all hunt in our own special way whether it’s for a bargain at the Mall, a painting or vase at the antique shop, coins at the beach with metal detector, a rare CD or DVD, the best amusement park, the finest restaurant & bar, or bagging a deer in the north woods, we all have sights on the next target


Hotwater

 

LMAO! Well I have a southern accent that I don't even try to hide. Around here the people usually hate Bush, don't care about flags....but LOVE Nascar. *shrugs* I don't get it.....what's so great about people driving in circles?

 

Haha... I don't know... the same people I'm talking about around here usually love nascar too. Bleh.


----btw, i didnt mean so much a southern accent as a hick accent. they are different.

 

I'm just very good at first person shooters.

 

I could careless about the rebel flag, GW is a dickhead and well I was from Washington State and hunted alot but since I moved to Missouri in 1997 I have (according to my friends up north, lol) started to talk funny.