Duck shooting- give your opinion

[becc]

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Are you sure ? Would you rather run into one with you car/suv/truck , than shoot one or have someone else shoot one to use the meat ? They are beautiful animals , whether they be quail , turkey , deer , antelope , or elk . In my area alone there were more highway fatalities from deer than there were hunting . You can look it up if you like . I live in the Flathead Valley HWY 2 west . If you want to be real technical , they are limiting hunting season this year on deer and elk in our region because of the wolf devastation on both of those species . As we all know , wolves attack for sport . They don't eat all of their kills , like I do . Wolves are not even Native to my area . So you tell me who is being more destructive ? I don't take my meat to a processor , I cut and grind it all myself because I can't afford it and even when I can , I don't trust them . What do you think happened before soy meat and other alternatives ? Could it be that our ancestors were right on a balanced diet of non processed meat and plants ? I don't sit out there by a corn feeder waiting for my game to come in .....I actually HUNT them . Forgive me if I spare 1or 3 deer or elk from getting hit on the side of the road where they will just go to the land fill. The sad fact is....if it ever comes to a point where technology doesn't exist....people like you are going to beg people like me to teach you how to do what I do .

If we let the animals just " be" , I'm curious to know what you think that world would be like . Next time you see a mouse in your house , or a cockroach , let me know how your " let it be attitude " is affecting you .

Sorry, speaking for people who don't live in a place with those animals except for the feral deer, mice and cockroaches- i didn't get the whole analogy.
Your point on the our ancestors... we don't actually hunt like they did, or eat it like they did.. We're too weak and pathetic for that. You claim, that 'if it ever comes to a point where technology doesn't exist....people like you are going to beg people like me to teach you how to do what I do'.
Well... I'm gathering you use technology while on the hunt.
If that were to happen, I'm sure that we would do the same as general do now, get someone else to kill for us so we don't have to face it or go veg or pig ourselves on junk food.
anyway, I might be getting off topic.


Personally I'm a not a big poultry eater, due to alot of factors I eat mostly red meat...

we are a self providing cattle farm

 

[SillyChicken]

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I myself hunt and so does my DH and DD. I have no hard feelings for anyone that is against hunting as long as they are vegetarians. What troubles me most are those who are totally against others going for their own meat but they will go buy steak, burgers or chickens at their local grocery and not think anything about it. Someone had to kill those animals.
I think as long as there is an abundance of any animals, I feel it is OK to hunt them. If the numbers do drop, then yes it should be restricted.

I agree. I cannot stand the hypocrisy of 'it's ok to eat if someone else killed it'. If you can't face doing it yourself or seeing it done, then you shouldn't be eating it.

Thanks, you guys said what I wanted to! You cannot sit there and say you're against something, when you partake in it as well... thats hypocracy! I have nothing but passion and respect for animals and I've hunted for 30 years. Many people have the wrong impression of hunters... we're not all red-neck toothless beer drinkers that shoot at every shaking bush, although there are some out there like that, most true hunters look down on these people, it's not acceptable, ethical or a proper behavior, nor a true representation of most hunters out there.

 

[Desma]

there is a group called Duck Unlimited that my husband is joined to. That group besides the Fish and Game department have overwhelmingly kept our ducks and geese species to a level of abundance. Living here in the Pacific Northwest and close to the border of Canada, there are many many waterlands that the fish and game and Ducks Unlimited have stopped growth and building on to make sure that all the duck species and geese have their waterways where they can breed and fly south and north etc without harm.
There is a duck and goose hunting season that you apply for and get drawn like in a lottery to be able to hunt on some waterways. We have no endangered species of waterfowl because of these two groups.
I personally do not like my husband to go duck hunting. The ducks are way too pretty and besides that, I do not care for the meat and if you shoot it, eat it. No hunting unless you are going to eat what you shoot.
My husband and I have attended dinners with auctions that the Ducks Unlimited shows everyyear for getting more and more money to help with preservation. Wildlife preservation especially for our ducks and geese has been very successful and our populations of ducks and geese are very very abundant that they do need to be thinned out. In Woodland Wa, you can drive you car out onto fields filled with geese and drive with them all over the place on the sides of the cars. It is amazing and awesome to see such plenty of how well they are breeding and living.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

I am duck hunter

Its good to see few other fellow Duck hunters and hunters.

 

[Desma]

Somebody made a very funny comment that hunting is not fair to the animal. That is one of the silliest comments I have ever heard considering the brutality and inhuman way our beef and chickens are slaughtered! I do not care for hunting myself but I do listen to what other hunters speak and say. To hunt, you have to be able to outsmart the game you are after. It is much more fair that slaughterhouses and a much more human way of getting your food. When I see how chickens are squashed into those tiny cages where they can't even walk and are forced to lay eggs, it is sad. Another point that I feel is very very rediculous are the people who get angry about the rights of animals while there are millions of babies in our country that are murdered and aborted. They don't blink an eye about abortion but raise hell about a whale or dolphin being killed unjustly. Twisted minds, twisted thinking.

 

[fowltemptress]

Nevermind how hunting compares to slaughterhouses . . . go ahead and compare hunting to nature in general. Good god! If I ever get reincarnated as a duck, please, someone promise to shoot me out of the sky before I get injured and die of an infection, or starve to death, or be over-mated to death, or have a predator grab me and start eating me before I'm fully expired, or before parasites start gnawing out my organs, or before one of the other million and one possible torturous deaths mother nature can concoct for me occurs. Heck, the ones that get shot are the lucky ones.

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

I don't hunt and nor would I want too, but I eat meat...plenty of meat. As long as I didn't kill it, I'm fine! But I think twice before eating duck meat, and I mostly try to avoid it...ever since I've gotten my pet duck.

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

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I agree, there are MANY, many more painful ways to die for a duck. Being shot and almost instantly killed by a bullet is just about as humane as it can get with hunting nowadays!