Well, I'm simply saying my opinion. I'm also sick of hearing shit about hunters.
As for me, I learned to aim at the lungs, it's the best balance between chance of hitting vs pain to the animal. Sure, I could end it quickly with a shot in the head. I could miss easily (even more than if I had aimed at the lungs) and maybe the deer would live with a missing eye for the rest of its life. Any hunter who doesn't shake some rust before hunting season is more likely to miss and thus, is a douche for not caring wether or not he could injure or maybe even cripple and animal forever.
In Quebec, everything related to hunting and firearms is watched and all. You have to follow a class on firearm security and you have to ask for a permit to posess and buy firearms. Of course, there will always be idiots breaking laws, it's impossible to have a perfect system, but most hunters (those I know, at least) will follow the rules and also practice before a hunt, so they won't injure an animal for nothing.
what I meant with the controlled environment and all is that, the animal can see death coming and cannot escape it. A bull is in the slaughterhouse. What then? Death assured.
In the forest, the deer doesn't have fences preventing it from escaping from whatever danger there is. there,s a difference between killing an animal in a controlled environment and killing one in its natural territory.
I keep my point about slaughterhouse employees getting another job. It's not easy getting another one but not impossible. I know that if I was working in a place I don't like and prevents me from doing my work well, I wouldn't hesitate quitting.
About the predator killing. Twisted logic? I don't see anything twisted in replacing carnivores that we killed. The balance gotta be kept somehow and slaughterhouses only takes cows and bulls, I never heard of a slaughterhouse taking deers and elks.
In my mind, I don,t hunt to protect crop. It's to be in nature and when killing a deer, it's regulating the population. In my opinion, it,s better than letting animals deplete their food ressources and having them looking in your trashcan each morning.
So, I guess in most slaughterhouses they do kill painlessly. I'm basing myself on a video I saw, I do have to admit I never visited one of these places and probably got fooled by a video, so I'm not gonna argue on this one.
You're right, I'm young and don't have as much hunting experience as my father have and probably never will, since I stopped for respect to my girlfriend. I just go with what I think is logical. I probably would hate hunters too, if I didn't eat meat but I wouldn't harass them like hell. I especially hated the way Havoc brought me his point. I understand he doesn't like hunting and all but does that mean it justifies insulting people? And so, he have no respect for hunters. So I guess each time I'll try to get my point he'll start insulting me because I think hunting is right? Yeah, great.
And yeah, I know the topic was about some douche shooting a baboon illegally and just for the fun of doing it like in the movies. I just find it normal that it would bring up stuff about hunting, wethere or not it was me bringing it up. The article was about animal killing, so I wouldn't have been surprised if someone else said anything about hunting.
'Nyway, I'm not looking to prove anything to anyone, if you don't approve hunting, good for you, but don't start calling us jackasses or heartless bastards. Death is a part of nature and the humans always hunted. the only thing that makes people say killing is wrong nowadays is because they can simply buy a steak in a grocery and not have to kill their own food source. Well, got news for these people: buying meat is not better than killing it. :P
EDIT: Bullet, I like your way of thinking.
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