Hunting!

[Highline Reptiles South]

You know - oddly enough i know Mass well - i lived in Boston for many years. Got my undergraduate and graduate degrees there. You remind me a lot of my time there.

You have come on a thread - insult and degrade people, their traditions and hobbies - and generally be smug little person. You want to compare folks to one person at a supposed convenience store. It isn't fair, and it is certainly disrespectful.

For the record - Just some of the benefits of hunting include:

Population control - there are very little predators in my area - and most. Overpopulation is a real problem, with disease and starvation the the ultimate result.

Conservation - hunting fees and licenses have largely funded wildlife conservation efforts in North America.

Time in the woods, friendship, tradition, camaraderie, a tradition of stewardship.

Add to that adding "free range" , no hormone, low in cholesterol food to one's diet.

In GA alone - over 300,000lbs in venison taken legally through population control has been donated to the poor and hungry through GA Hunters for the Hungry charity.

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I'm sure there are more but i'm watching football. Have a nice day!

[Freakie_frog]

In GA alone - over 300,000lbs in venison taken legally through population control has been donated to the poor and hungry through GA Hunters for the Hungry charity.

A few years ago our area had a cull hunt that was over seen by the Wildlife Department, our area took 100 animals at an average of 125lbs each, the meat was processed free of charge by a local company and we donted it to area homeless and low income familys to the tune of 50lbs of meat per family we put food in the bellys of 115 familys..

One of my favorite things is the youth activitys, parterning with Big brother's - Big Sister's and offering a free weekend for Bigs and their little's to hunt or fish over 5,000 acre's of prime Mississippi timber and heartland. Getting kids out in the outdoors and teaching them that there are things to do year round that doesn't involve Xbox or Facebook is an awesome feeling..

Or getting the Wounded Warrior program to help set up a Wild Hog Hunt for a real American Hero..hunting is more about being in the outdoors than harvesting game. True hunters can look back on a hunt where they didn't even take a single animal and consider it a great hunt simply because of the time in the woods.

[olstyn]

A few years ago our area had a cull hunt that was over seen by the Wildlife Department, our area took 100 animals at an average of 125lbs each, the meat was processed free of charge by a local company and we donted it to area homeless and low income familys to the tune of 50lbs of meat per family we put food in the bellys of 115 families.

How do you find out when that sort of thing is happening? I'm not currently a hunter, but I can definitely place bullets accurately with a rifle, and harvesting from nature to feed those in need is an appealing idea.

[MrLang]

A few years ago our area had a cull hunt that was over seen by the Wildlife Department, our area took 100 animals at an average of 125lbs each, the meat was processed free of charge by a local company and we donted it to area homeless and low income familys to the tune of 50lbs of meat per family we put food in the bellys of 115 familys..

One of my favorite things is the youth activitys, parterning with Big brother's - Big Sister's and offering a free weekend for Bigs and their little's to hunt or fish over 5,000 acre's of prime Mississippi timber and heartland. Getting kids out in the outdoors and teaching them that there are things to do year round that doesn't involve Xbox or Facebook is an awesome feeling..

Or getting the Wounded Warrior program to help set up a Wild Hog Hunt for a real American Hero..hunting is more about being in the outdoors than harvesting game. True hunters can look back on a hunt where they didn't even take a single animal and consider it a great hunt simply because of the time in the woods.

All that works for me.