Do You Believe?

[Aleria]

Or, like I experienced while living in Michgan, the overpopulation leads to the animals wandering into more populated areas. And with deer that usually means far more of them walking and running around in the roads and getting hit by cars.

[BallPythons9]

I hunt and fish and I love it. However I believe you should eat what you shoot and always obey all hunting or fishing laws.

[cbentley]

I Hunt, Trap, and fish. I Love the outdoors.

[Jay_Bunny]

But how can someone like me (vegetarian/occasionally vegan) get into hunting? I have no problem fishing and would do it more often to get food for my animals (cats, dog, and ferrets) but I never have time. I would attempt hunting to supply my animals' diets but I wouldn't know where to start and I'm not sure I could shoot a living animal. It is a lot different than throwing a mouse into a tub.

[Aleria]

But how can someone like me (vegetarian/occasionally vegan) get into hunting? I have no problem fishing and would do it more often to get food for my animals (cats, dog, and ferrets) but I never have time. I would attempt hunting to supply my animals' diets but I wouldn't know where to start and I'm not sure I could shoot a living animal. It is a lot different than throwing a mouse into a tub.

I think in your case trapping would probably be a better option. Being that you would not be doing it for the joy of the sport, have a limited schedule, and would like to use whatever you get as a food source for your animals, it would be hard to have to spend hours out hunting and possibly come home empty handed. And since you have to hunt only when certain things are in season, that would also mean long periods of not being able to hunt specific things.
With trapping I'd think it'd be far less time consuming, and would not be too far off from what you're already doing since I believe once you trap the animals it's just a matter of killing or maiming them and either using them whole or cooking them up as a food source. But it doesn't require hours of sitting and waiting for the possible change to shoot something, with the possibility of missing your shot.
There are probably a lot of good sites out there with information on trapping. I've never done it myself but knew quite a few people that did it year round for different animals as nearly their main food source.

[blackcrystal22]

But how can someone like me (vegetarian/occasionally vegan) get into hunting? I have no problem fishing and would do it more often to get food for my animals (cats, dog, and ferrets) but I never have time. I would attempt hunting to supply my animals' diets but I wouldn't know where to start and I'm not sure I could shoot a living animal. It is a lot different than throwing a mouse into a tub.

I'm into hunting, and I'm a vegetarian.
The animals in the wild are wild, free, and about as natural as could be. There's no human made suffering, and hunting is one of the most natural things that we could do to help population problems as well as create our own food properly. I haven't had any hunting chance, but when I hunt I will eat the meat that I kill or my family kills. I'm not a vegetarian for kicks, it's a personal value that doesn't apply to hunted animals.
Even though most of the population issues are our own fault. We were the ones that wiped out the carnivores in the first place.

[Jay_Bunny]

I went fishing this week and caught a 1/2lb catfish. Not that big, but still a darn fish!

While I sat waiting for the line to bounce I thought about the idea of me hunting. I think right now I'm just going to focus on breeding my own feeder animals. If I ever live on my own farm and have some land I can hunt on, I might, but right now I'm not ready to take that step of actively going out with a gun/bow and hunting down animals. My grandfather hunts deer. I might ask him to take me out this year.

[nixer]

I went fishing this week and caught a 1/2lb catfish. Not that big, but still a darn fish!

While I sat waiting for the line to bounce I thought about the idea of me hunting. I think right now I'm just going to focus on breeding my own feeder animals. If I ever live on my own farm and have some land I can hunt on, I might, but right now I'm not ready to take that step of actively going out with a gun/bow and hunting down animals. My grandfather hunts deer. I might ask him to take me out this year.

you should go out with him hunting. thats good times

[Neal]

I believe in hunting as long as it's going to be eaten, otherwise no.

[Simpson Balls]

I believe in hunting as long as it's going to be eaten, otherwise no.

Thats with me too!

Daniel