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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 21:36:23 GMT -5
Recently, my new hobby has been hunting. I'm starting to get pretty good with my bow, and even the sling shot. I wasn't really into the sling shot until I figured out you can kill small game like Rabbits, squirrels, and other pest. So far, I've been reading up on hunting laws and survival manuals. Just wondering if anyone else on the board is into the out door type lifestyle
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Post by takewithfood on Feb 4, 2015 18:54:08 GMT -5
I like camping, and try to get out at least once a year. I used to fish quite a lot in my teens, but I feel like I sort of outgrew it somehow. I did enjoy the time outdoors, the patience and strategy required, and just the feel of getting into a hobby. I do miss it sometimes.
I've never tried hunting, and I don't think I could do it, for ethical reasons. Pest control is a thing, and I get that, but I'd still have a hard time doing it even for that reason.
~TWF
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Post by Manah on Feb 5, 2015 0:03:54 GMT -5
I personally have no problem with hunting as long as it's done with respect for nature in mind (hunting only what's needed and eating all that one hunts, one shot one kill, not hunting endangered animals, blah blah blah). I eat meat, I love meat, and I wouldn't be eating meat if there weren't hunters. But me, hunting?... Nope, not gonna happen.  I'm a VERY indoors person. I'm allergic to poison ivy pollen, I'm scared of spiders, bees and wasps (basically, if it goes BZZZZZZZ and is black and yellow, it scares the heck out of me - bad experience as a child XD), mosquitoes just LOVE me and the flavor of my blood, flies love to annoy the heck out of me, I dislike being dirty, I don't especially enjoy camping (although I don't hate it), I'm shortsighted, part color blind and my hands shake a bit. Also, I don't deal with cold so well. All in all? I would suck at hunting.  |
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 5, 2015 7:05:32 GMT -5
I love the outdoors but lack the patience for hunting. I can pretty much assure you that I'd be reading when the deer (or whatever) I was going to shoot wandered by. Some deer somewhere would be saved by CFW Walther or C.S. Lewis.
If I were more physically fit, the only kind of hunting that I think I could get into is actually stalking the animals, where its a proactive kind of experience.
Morally/ethically I have no issues with hunting. I'm from MI. I've seen multiple cases of wildlife starving to death, and I've seen deer dying of disease. I've known (at least) one family who lost their farm because of deer overpopulation. I wish there were more hunters... I'm just not going to be one of them 8)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 0:01:37 GMT -5
I've never been more at peace than I have been when I'm hunting. I'm even going as so far as to build my own bow out of bamboo to use during the next hunting season. It's a cool think as a hunter to hunt animals using weapons you've made. It's more primitive, but more rewarding to some hunters. My only conflict is that I'm part Cherokee Indian. The Cherokee people view Bear's as sacred and don't hunt them, but I want to hunt and kill one, lol. I'm trying to get membership to a tribe near by, but who knows.
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Post by AzinDine on Apr 17, 2015 23:34:50 GMT -5
I've done small Small game when younger(Squirrels..). Not much of it, but I learned in my stay of SC, they hunt the buggers.. or really, boast who has the biggest gun and how little is left.
I'd like to do more of it now that I've matured and have more patience for such things. Bow is fun, so is crossbow.
Keep us up to date with how the construction is going. Having studied a lot more Eastern/medieval style techniques, and having used bamboo/actually made some shanai with them, I would imagine it will be difficult.
As for fishing.. I've learned it's not my thing. But I'll still on the creek or wherever and pretend to be while reading a book(Probably not Lewis.. but maybe a little more Lovecraft)
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