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Simon Zeev
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I had shot a lot of firearms, but never hunt.
I am not against hunting and I think people can enjoy a lot.
Nice pictures BTW.
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Zeev
Simon = family name so... call me Zeev!
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I am not against hunting and I think people can enjoy a lot.
Nice pictures BTW.
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Regards,
Zeev
Simon = family name so... call me Zeev!
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AntnioGM
Senior Member
Quite a few years since I last hunted, but my Weimaraner does love to hunt, and sometimes she grabs a few piggeons on her own.
Here's a photo of her trying to hunt a rabbit:
António GM
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/91908602@N00/
Here's a photo of her trying to hunt a rabbit:
António GM
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/91908602@N00/
kieth kiesel
Forum Enthusiast
And what is wrong with this "type" of picture?
deleted_081301
Senior Member
Killing animals for fun is abit sick.. but hey the worlds full of perverts ....
Goffen
Senior Member
..you are just as guilty as the next guy. When i eat self killed deer-meat at least i know the animal had a great life before it was killed. How about your average chicken ?
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kieth kiesel
Forum Enthusiast
Just what the world needs, more tree huggers and animal rights sissies.
Ecocentric
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Good hunters have strongly held beliefs about the ethical treatment of animals. They are not incompatible beliefs. Not every tree hugger is an extremist. Humans did not invent predation, and the ecosystem cannot function without it.
kieth kiesel
Forum Enthusiast
Yup, turned sour real quick.Maybe not such a good idea LOL.
Kim R
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Beautiful dog and images. I think it is nice that you shared them.
It be best to just ignore those who form their opinions about hunting without knowledge. ;-)
I find it interesting that back when some of the first wildlife refuges were formed in the US no hunting was allowed and the game bird population plummeted to all time lows. Research showed that was because no hunting was allowed in those areas. Mr. Predator (fox, coyote or bobcat) would wander into such an area to find easy pickings. He would get his belly full and again the next day and the next, etc. until he was trained to hunt an area and he would stay and do so until he took all the birds from the area. However research has showed that when hunting was brought in and used as a tool, some birds were harvested to take numbers down and then Mr. Predator came to get something to eat and may do so but on the next days pickings were not as good as before and for several days he did not get a belly full. He then wandered out of the area to hunt elsewhere and did not become trained to hunt the one area. With adult bird numbers down their clutches are bigger and they are more apt to go back to nest a second time if one nest is not successful or is completed successfully but early and so the flock becomes healthy and abundant.
We harvested an elk yesterday and look forward to having it in the freezer and in the pot. Many people do not realize that our big game herds are here and healthy because of hunting as a management tool. I have witnessed a time when there was not enough hunting in an area and nearly all deer winter killed slow and agonizing starvation and or disease deaths with hundreds dieing off. It is a sad situation to walk into the bruch and see hundreds of carcasses and deer still alive but to weak to ever get up from their death bed. However I have also witnessed where hunting as a management tool is used and the herds are health and abundant too. Humans have encroached on so much of the natural range of these animal that it has never been more important for the animals survival that we also enter in with management that includes controlled hunting for the good of the animals themselves. Without the hunting our present strong herds would not now exist.
Davey G. after harvesting this branched bull elk deep in the canyon. Good clean shot at 560 yards/338 Win. Mag and the help of range finder, and lots of long range practice before the hunt. Animal was soon boned out and packed from canyon by friends who showed up to help. I believe there was around 14 people who participated in the packing of the meat from the canyon.
This lady is over 60 years of age and harvested this bull after the her second trip to the canyon bottom in two days where many young men could not walk.
The bull was harvested on the last trip she will make into that canyon that she loves so much. She is seen standing with the harvest but I assure you she is "just barely standing" and I had just towed her from the canyon with the belt from around my waist.
This is a different view a few days later of where she had trekked. No roads in there.
KimR
It be best to just ignore those who form their opinions about hunting without knowledge. ;-)
I find it interesting that back when some of the first wildlife refuges were formed in the US no hunting was allowed and the game bird population plummeted to all time lows. Research showed that was because no hunting was allowed in those areas. Mr. Predator (fox, coyote or bobcat) would wander into such an area to find easy pickings. He would get his belly full and again the next day and the next, etc. until he was trained to hunt an area and he would stay and do so until he took all the birds from the area. However research has showed that when hunting was brought in and used as a tool, some birds were harvested to take numbers down and then Mr. Predator came to get something to eat and may do so but on the next days pickings were not as good as before and for several days he did not get a belly full. He then wandered out of the area to hunt elsewhere and did not become trained to hunt the one area. With adult bird numbers down their clutches are bigger and they are more apt to go back to nest a second time if one nest is not successful or is completed successfully but early and so the flock becomes healthy and abundant.
We harvested an elk yesterday and look forward to having it in the freezer and in the pot. Many people do not realize that our big game herds are here and healthy because of hunting as a management tool. I have witnessed a time when there was not enough hunting in an area and nearly all deer winter killed slow and agonizing starvation and or disease deaths with hundreds dieing off. It is a sad situation to walk into the bruch and see hundreds of carcasses and deer still alive but to weak to ever get up from their death bed. However I have also witnessed where hunting as a management tool is used and the herds are health and abundant too. Humans have encroached on so much of the natural range of these animal that it has never been more important for the animals survival that we also enter in with management that includes controlled hunting for the good of the animals themselves. Without the hunting our present strong herds would not now exist.
Davey G. after harvesting this branched bull elk deep in the canyon. Good clean shot at 560 yards/338 Win. Mag and the help of range finder, and lots of long range practice before the hunt. Animal was soon boned out and packed from canyon by friends who showed up to help. I believe there was around 14 people who participated in the packing of the meat from the canyon.
This lady is over 60 years of age and harvested this bull after the her second trip to the canyon bottom in two days where many young men could not walk.
The bull was harvested on the last trip she will make into that canyon that she loves so much. She is seen standing with the harvest but I assure you she is "just barely standing" and I had just towed her from the canyon with the belt from around my waist.
This is a different view a few days later of where she had trekked. No roads in there.
KimR
neil1c2000
Well-known member
You have a problem with eating them? That's usually what duck/deer/elk/turkey hunters do.
gfraser7
Forum Enthusiast
I like wandering around the fields and bush with my camera. One day I came across a strange looking bale of straw
I went up closer and sure enough, the bale had 3 windows and a door built into it. It was a hunting blind. Gotta love those sportsmen.
This is nothing like hunting elk in the wilderness. This was about 3 miles from town.
I went up closer and sure enough, the bale had 3 windows and a door built into it. It was a hunting blind. Gotta love those sportsmen.
This is nothing like hunting elk in the wilderness. This was about 3 miles from town.
CollBaxter
Forum Pro
Hunting Ieeesh that is subjective.
I do a lot off wild life photography and a lot of it is real wildlife. I suppose I hunt and just bring back the trophies in my camera. I have friends who hunt and have attended a few hunts but never again. When I saw the light fading in a bucks eye as it was dying that was it never again. I live in Africa and I am a conservationist (Green) who advocates nuke power as one must be pragmatic and practical , controlled hunting has its place. You pay for what you shoot.
MY thoughts on zoos and hunting are stated here. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=39504489
As for your Ideal of a weekly post a lot of people are not as pragmatic or reasonable as others and thing’s will get mixed up with poaching and wholesale slaughter as I have seen when some people get “Blood lust on a hunt” the whole thread would become “Subjective” .
We lose one white rhino to poaches every day so that some idiot in the east can get his **** up with powered hair.
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Collin
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http://collinbaxter.zenfolio.com/
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (George Carlin)
New Seventh Wonder of the World.
I do a lot off wild life photography and a lot of it is real wildlife. I suppose I hunt and just bring back the trophies in my camera. I have friends who hunt and have attended a few hunts but never again. When I saw the light fading in a bucks eye as it was dying that was it never again. I live in Africa and I am a conservationist (Green) who advocates nuke power as one must be pragmatic and practical , controlled hunting has its place. You pay for what you shoot.
MY thoughts on zoos and hunting are stated here. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=39504489
As for your Ideal of a weekly post a lot of people are not as pragmatic or reasonable as others and thing’s will get mixed up with poaching and wholesale slaughter as I have seen when some people get “Blood lust on a hunt” the whole thread would become “Subjective” .
We lose one white rhino to poaches every day so that some idiot in the east can get his **** up with powered hair.
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Collin
(Aficionado Olympus DSLR )
http://collinbaxter.zenfolio.com/
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (George Carlin)
New Seventh Wonder of the World.
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