Originally Posted by: quickfingersi dont like when people use the excuse of "how am i going to hunt without a gun?" thing. well, for one reason, we live in the 21st century where we dont really NEED to hunt. if you want to use that excuse, awesome. then sell your pickup, your house, and ride horseback and live in a tent in the woods. then you have real reasons to hunt your own food. its not even a question of necessity in this day and age to hunt your own food unless you live outside of any link of society. excuse me for being a conformist to safeway, but i think theres other ways to being a rebel or a hardcore badass than shooting animals that have less defense than a retarded cripple.

For one, as has been mentioned, there is the "sporting" aspect of all of this. And the meat you get at Safeway comes from the animals with "less defense than a retarded cripple;" wild game is usually very cautious, very well camoflaged and very good at dodging predators -- even humans.

I hunted for four years without even seeing a legal deer, much less shooting one.


The next consideration is that most of these game animals now have no natural predators and so their populations are suseptable to going catastrophically out of control leading to inbreeding, increased highway deaths, disease, the destruction of wild food-plants, trees and famers' crops and then finally starvation and death. Properly controled hunting is an absolutely essential componant of maintaing healthy game animal populations.

Of course, we could pay Fish and Game officers to do this on top of all their other duties, but why bother when private citizens are more than willing to pay the State for the privelige to indulge their inner hunter-gatherer?