Duck shooting- give your opinion

[PeepsInc]

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You said a mouth full.

........ As a hunter we are responsible to create habitat & preserve the species for the future. Non hunters don't relise what hunters have done in the US to bring back & protect wild life. If it wasn't for hunters there wouldn't be wild turkey in the North Eastern US. As well as many other birds. I think they need some ecology courses over there in Aussi.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

If the situation really is as you describe it in Australia it makes me wonder why the government does not have wildlife biologists studying the matter to determine why the bird populations are plummeting and what can be done about it. I suspect the worst of the problem is not from hunting but from habitat loss and drought problems. In the United States we have bag limits and seasons for nearly every kind of huntable animal to keep from depleting their numbers. As conditions change the bag limits are changed up or down as circumstances dictate. The fees that hunters pay for licenses and on their ammunition pay for a good deal of that research and work.

I don't duck hunt, but generally support hunting rights where the game population can sustain it. Many animal species are under threat, but the worst of them are not from hunting but from habitat loss.

.....Alan.

 

[SillyChicken]

I don't have a problem with it - as long as the numbers will support it. If there isn't enough numbers, it should be restricted... keep in mind in one area there may be an over abundance of an animal, it's just not where you may be. For Example: Deer populations in Michigan are high, and hunters in some areas, have reported seeing herds of 20-30 deer during the last season... but I only saw 3-5 deer all seasonn where I hunted.

Hunting is the best form of conservation and controlling populations when their supportive environment has been reduced(unfortunatly), and most preditors have been reduced or eliminated. Not to mention game meat is so much better tasting and healthier for us than commercial food.

edited because I decided to keep some of my opinions to myself.

 

[redhen]

Theres usually a very good reason for hunting seasons...
But do i like it? No..

 

[herfrds]

I grew up hunting with my Dad. We hunted ducks and those were some great days.

Now there are some species that are eating themselves out of their habitat. Too many birds and not enough land to support them.

 

[Junkmanme]

My opinion about Duck Hunting?

"Use #5 shot."

-Junkmanme-

P.S. #2 shot OR T-buck-Shot for Geese

 

[Wifezilla]

In America hunters are pretty much the ones responsible for the existence of nature preserves and the abundance of game animals

Isn't Ducks Unlimited an international organization?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducks_Unlimited

Personally, I think duck hunting is a waste of time, money and energy. You can get perfectly good ducks at the meat market that don't taste like fish and are not full of buckshot and pinfeathers.

There is a big difference health-wise between commercially raised duck and duck that has lived on its natural diet. Commercially raised ducks are fed corn and soy which skews the fatty acid profile towards higher omega 6 and lower omega 3. In other words, wild duck is better for you.​

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I'm against all hunting (unless it is strictly, strictly for survival purposes, like in emergency situations), but I'm a vegetarian and quite pro-animal rights, so it kind of goes without saying. I've cared for two wild ducks now that survived being shot, and it was pretty sad and miserable watching them try to recover from their broken wings. They'll never be able to fly again, and if it weren't for having a man in my wildlife rehabilitation group who lives on a preserve and has a large, protected property for permanently injured ducks/geese, we would have had to euthanize them.

Not to mention dealing with the birds of prey, pigeons, and other critters we've gotten in with lead shot in their systems. Now that is a horrifying, slow, and painful way to die.

I'm probably going to flack for saying this, but I simply cannot understand how anyone could get enjoyment out of killing another living creature. It's one thing to shoot things on video games, but completely another to shoot something that's actually alive and wanting to live. It's rather disturbing to me... Not to mention I don't think guns versus creatures is a very fair way to go about it. Now if you go out and catch it and kill it with your bare hands? Well, that I'd be less against. Of course, in that case, good luck catching anything!

 

[redhen]

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Your entiltled to your opinion, just like the rest of us.

Dont worry..

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I hunt because I enjoy it and because I like to eat the meat I work for. By shooting the animal, you put your blood, sweat and tears into it, you don't detach yourself from the "process" by getting it from a supermarket.

Deer populations are ridiculously overwhelming.
Canadian Geese are reproducing faster than ever.

Sometimes, management is what is necessary to protect human lives. Overpopulation of deer can cause over browsing, which will reduce food for all other animals that eat the same food. These same deer travel over roads in which people will hit them and those people can be killed.


Meat is meat. I prefer to work for mine and to thank the animal that gave it's life so I can eat. I will not change that view but respect others who have opposite ones of my own.