No Patience with Duck Killers.

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...Perhaps Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Spain’s leading philosopher of the 20th century, summed it up best when he wrote in his classic work, Meditations on Hunting:
'... one does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted.' "
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Thanks Bob, For posting this

There is some thing about hunting that puts us in touch with ourselves. It brings out instincts that modern life hides. Most of my life I didn't have to hunt to eat, but I had to hunt in order to live. The pursuit of game brings the senses alive, some thing that modern life deadens.

As a child I played Hide and go seek,As a teenager I took a gun and went after wild game,As a adult I sharpened my skills and I added more tools. The end game I killed, but the joy came from the pursuit and all that went with it.
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Your welcome Scott.Loved the times I spent in Maine.Always nice to hear from another Maineack.Hope to hear from you more often.Where do you hunt and how?
 
"...We are all on the same team here"

I'll always vote to keep hunting free from more regulation and I support land preservation efforts so from that perspective, yes, we're on the same team.

But, if you don't naturally concur with the points made in the first post, you'll never understand it. I've had bad experiences with "kill the limit at all costs guys" - typically selfish, oblivious, "who cares about a couple of crips", don't put the crips out of their misery and usually careless in the blind. So, no you aren't on my team chief. I never said anything about "kill at all costs" at all some I am not sure where that comes from. Just because I try to kill a limit certainly doesn't make me careless in the blind. Fortunately I shoot pretty straight so I don't deal with many cripples and if there is a cripple....that is why God made good retrievers.
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Brian... you may want to study Audubon. He was a hunter and by they way -- shot all the birds he drew - so he wasn't a pansy by any means. Second, most of the gunning laws drawn up in the thirties were pushed by HUNTERS, not the anti hunters who sit on their porches and blow horns when duckboats set up in front of their waterfront homes... I'm glad you shoot straight, I'm still trying to perfect that ; )

Peace.
 
I agree with Andrew. The regs were pushed by the hunters to help preserve the sport that we all love, and we should all be greatful for the hunters that came before us for their vision of the future. Nothing should come before getting that cripple in the bag. Then by all meas "KILL 'EM"
 
Thanks Bill,
You and Eric make me proud that some of my heritage (on my mther's side )is from Crimson Tide country.
Next time you hear one of those bragadocious pups start running off about his big kill, ask him how long it took for him to clean all those birds and how is he going to prepare them for the table?

Best,
Harry
 
Next time you hear one of those bragadocious pups start running off about his big kill, ask him how long it took for him to clean all those birds and how is he going to prepare them for the table?
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Now that is perfect. Why didn't I think of that. Nothing like a piled tailgate shot of ducks headed for the dumpster but not before you hit the nearerst McDonalds drive thru. I mean c'mon, after the braggning shots are taken and ready for the net what else would you do with those ducks. Wait, there's always stuffing them in the freezer for dog training and feeling good about not letting them go to waste.
 
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LOL. Well, one of the biggest braggerts of our current crop freely admits to not eating ducks at all....says he gives them all away to people that do. With my dad and granddad (who didn't even duckhunt), I probably wouldn't have had teeth to chew them with, if I had that attitude about hunting.:)
 
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