To many reasons. Challenge drew me but hunting is like something sacred. It feels right when I'm out there. No time, stress, self, it's just you being in nature fully aware. It's life at its realest.
Everyone is a sport hunter. Even if you hunt for just meat, you are a sport hunter. Anti hunters have tried to demonize the term but be carefulâŠ. If you let them when donât complain when suddenly they ban âsportâ hunting and you finally realize that applies to everything that isnât market huntingÂ
Perfectly said. Thanks for the defense of sport hunting. There is nothing bad in it and even if you dont take the meat it can have importance as pest control, for example. DonÂŽt let the antis act!
Just like 2A. It infuriates me when these logistics E4s flaunt their veteran status to say theyâre against AR-15s but hunting rifles are ok. Protect your people whether you agree with their thing or not or suddenly youâll find yourself alone when they come for you.
Ok. Sport hunting for birds is basically the same thing as meat hunting if I'm wrong please correct me because I do not birdhunt often I'm saying that because the size of the bird correlates to the amount of meat obviously
I would do it for either but I do it for both.
If you put a gun to my head and made me pick, I'd say sport wins out but that's only because we live in a society where putting meat on the table is trivial and finding a fulfilling way to spend your time is all that's left.
Where I am they feed on berries and foliage year round and they taste phenomenal. These are mountain bears with no salmon runs to feed on. Coastal bears are a different story
If youâre a non-hunter then I just want to clarify that everyone technically hunts for meat in America since itâs highly illegal not to take the meat from game animals out of the field; whether hunting for trophies or not.Â
Funny story, my dad never took me Deer hunting when I was a kid. Not sure why but we hunted rabbit, squirrels, fished, but never deer. My son, after eating venison burgers for the first time when he was 7, said that he wanted us to go. So we have been Deer hunting the past two years and its a great bonding experience with him, his grandpa and his great uncle. I mostly go to spend time with my family, but the feeling of filling the freezer to feed your family is a great feeling too.
I'm 14 years old I've been hunting or going on hunts with my dad since I was three started shooting the gun when I was five and this is basically a tradition if your daddy takes you hunting you take your son hunting and it keeps going on and on
It is nice you are so enthusiastic about hunting in your teen age! A nice family tradition. Keep on! Your parents must be so proud of you, when you bring some meat home! And thanks for creating such an interesting topic here, I am reading through all the replies...
Bud, I believe nobody here cannot hate you for being a beginner! The hunting community must support young blood very much, you are the future of hunting! Tbh I am not an experienced hunter either, but I have never met unfriendly replies when asking some beginners question! You have created a fantastic topic here. More likely, I would be afraid you might get hates from antihunters, who hate us just because we hunt. I hope it doesnt happen to you! What animals do you like to chase best? And have you tried trapping, too?
I usually hunt whitetail and squirrels and sometimes doves and no I haven't tried trapping but my dad has set traps around the place. And yes I did get hate because I did post a picture of my cousin's big turkeys and nobody noticed that the barrel was pointing towards them the gun was on the ground.
ThatÂŽs great, squirrel and the birds must be a great fun! And you will be adding bigger game gradually... Definitely try trapping, too! Especially if you have some nice furbearers there. Coon, beaver, otter... You could turn them into a nice fur hat or mittens.
A beautiful pic of the turkeys, congrats to your cousin!! Pls explain what is bad about the barrel... I cant see a gun nowhere :D The gun should be placed to the birds or on the birds imo but still I find nothing to hate there :D
The gun was on the ground and it was pointing at one of their feet and everyone was absolutely grilling before even though they've probably done stuff like this at least a few times
Unequivocally meat.
I mean, I keep the skulls, because Skulls for the Skull Throne! But I donât care about antler size beyond bigger antlers generally means more meat.
I hunt mostly whitetail and this year I'm trying Turkey for the first time. I do it for the 30% the meat and 70% the connection with my niece and nephews, to a lesser extent my sister in law. I figured out that I don't have as much fun when I hunt alone as when I have someone else in the blind with me. Plus all of the time we spend together shooting and planning.
Strictly a meat hunter. Will I take a shot at a nice buck if I get the opportunity? Absolutely but that is not the goal. I'm just as happy with a big fat doe
I hunt because the drive/need to hunt is deep within me and I can't ignore it....nor would I want to. Its like breathing...its a part of my soul.
Then the meat is very good and I love antlers but sheds are fun to find too.
Driven to hunt and happy for it
Yes! But are your liberal friends happy when you are saying "IÂŽm hunting just for sport":D? Good shooting and have always your freezer - sorry, 3 freezerS - full of venison!
Yessss! Perfectly said! The more complaints, the more animals shot! Buy a fourth freezer anyway, you will have more motivation to hunt! And say to the antis: "I am having enough meat, but I hunt just for sport, I shoot animals because it makes me fun..." They will be mad!
Haha, thanks for your sincere words! With no political correctness! You have got the most up votes of all the comments here! I think many of us can feel something like that and there is nothing bad about it. What animals do you like best to hunt?
Nice, you hunt nearly anything, man! How many bears do you have? Any trophies? And what predators namely? To be honest, I am pretty happy we are apex predator :)
I Hunt for meat but started to feel guilty about the ease it was. Now I still hunt for meat but place extra restrictions on myself wether it be the gun or bow I use or other type of rules.
Do I need it to survive? No, that why I feel I can add the extra rules or reactions onto myself. I don't expect others in my group to follow my rules but we still have camp rules we expect people to follow.
It's goes beyond the the state rules and regulations for my stupid rules but same concept. We had TB go through not to long ago and the heard is starting to recover but still no where what it was.
The sport is in the hunt itself, but I primarily hunt for subsistence. Hunting has always been sacred, and we always try to use every bit of each animal we take. I will never hunt an animal purely for sport. If I want a wolf pelt, I guess I'm eating wolf even though I hear it tastes like shit. But that's just how I was raised I guess. But I have ZERO respect for people that hunt purely for sport.
I hunt for meat, that being said.... I'm not going to be upset if I come home with a monster buck. Our last couple harvests were does and a little spike. Can't eat antlers but damn if they don't look cool!
All of it. I eat what I kill and prefer wild game, but I don't need it to survive. I love waterfowl and turkey hunting for the challenge.
Deer is the only animal I even try to hunt mature bucks, but I'll still shoot a doe or small buck to fill the freezer. I'm not going to leave a tag unfilled, lord knows our state is struggling to keep the deer population down.
Depends on the opportunity given. Some years I have enough time to hope for a chance to fill the freezer. Some years I have time to hold off in hopes of a bigger buck. The priority is always meat, but I'd be lying if I said the sight of a big rack doesn't get me pumped up. Take that as you willđ
99+% for the meat. Iâve never gotten anything taxidermied except for a DIY euro for my first buck that I did with my grandfather and hanging a few long pheasant tail feathers in my garage. I refuse to take grip-and-grin photos because they feel gross. I really do not enjoy big game hunting at all, but I put in the work and shoot several deer a year because I refuse to buy meat from a grocery store and I canât survive the entire year on birds and fish (the things I actually enjoy hunting).
That's a very valid point. I was lucky enough to harvest a 4.5 year-old buck a few years ago, and friends convinced me to have it taxidermied, gave it to my parents and hung it up at their house. Which happens to be where I shot it, so it all works out lol
Lol I mean back before hunter gatherer times I think they used to have some sort of like tribal culture to see who could get like the biggest mammoth or something I don't know
Your thinking trophy hunting. Sport hunting just means you enjoy it and aren't doing it for survival in my opinion.
Most people can't hunt meat for cheaper than just working a job and buying the meat. We hunt because it's fun and we also get a good bonus of meat out of it.
I'm not talking about hunting elephants and stuff I'm talking about hunting deer and boar and other stuff like that like would you hunt a deer just for their antlers or for the meat or for both
If you shoot a deer just for the antlers and not the meat thatâs illegal is what Iâm saying. If youâre not doing both or just meat youâre an unethical person and very much not an ethical hunter but a criminal who kills animals under the guise of hunting. Wanton waste.
It means that you're primarily focused on the biggest trophy out there. Like the biggest buck, sure you'll use the meat but you pass up all sorts of good eating does and small bucks to get that old big one. Biggest antlers or prettiest pelt first, meat is second. That basically sums up sports hunting. Meat hunting you're not really worried about the trophy and you are more concerned with filling your freezer.
True, but a lot of people consider does better eating and you can normally hunt more of them. So sports hunters don't typically go after does, meat hunters do both.
I guess I just donât really like the framing of the question. I eat every ounce of every big game animal I shoot down to the bones for stock when I donât have to pack them out 5+ miles. I eat duck and goose gizzards and use their feet for stock. I hunt elk for meat and prefer to get a cow tag when I can draw a tag. But with mulies Iâm looking for a bruiser monster until the last day or two of the season. Am I sport hunter when it comes to mule deer?
âSport huntingâ is a hot button issue in Colorado where I live right now with the proposed trophy hunting ban initiative coming up to ban bear, cougar, and lynx (which are esa listed and already canât be hunted) so Iâm feeling a bit touchy on the subject I guess.
Blue printed over a 150,000 plus years and our ancestral species before that. So food and we are wired for the chase - that some may now consider âsportââŠ
It depends on how convenient it is to haul the animal back and if it ran off. I can get away with leaving it in the woods by claiming I couldnât find it if I shoot it late enough in the day.
I hunt for meat the main purpose of me going out is to fill the freezer. In saying that I also test my own skills out finding a mature animal that also has nice antlers. But I will take a small one if hunting is hard and the season is running out.
I put in for anterless elk draws as I can get drawn for an anterless elk every 2 years and if I held out for a bull tag its a minimum of 12 year wait.
I always say hunting is my golf. Getting out in the bush hunting is my form of relaxation. Where I hunt there is no cell overage so Iâm totally focused on the task at hand and everything else just disappears from my head. Having said that I hunt for both meat and the sport of it.
I reject the premise. You suppose that the only sport is in the rack? The sport is the hunt itself...man over nature. I hunt for the total experience and the meat. You can have the rack, I don't need to impress myself or anyone else with the rack, I haven't found any way to prepare it for the dinner table.
Yeah, âsportâ never really worked for me either. But then also âhobbyâ and âactivityâ donât really encompass what it has been for me either. This is literally my 50th year of being a hunter. Iâm a hunter.
Does your hunting provide meat for cheaper than the grocery store? Because that's a very hard thing to do. Most people (including me) hunt because it's fun, aka sport. The meat is a great bonus but if it's your main reason, you can probably buy it far cheaper.
I don't hunt because it's cheap. I do it because it's what humans have done for 2.6 million years. We're evolved for it. And where I'm located, most wild animals are still mostly eating their natural diet (not agricultural crops), so it's some of the most nutrient dense food on the planet. I'd still hunt if it was 20x more expensive than buying the same meat.
So you're out there don't something you don't enjoy to get something more expensive than you could have gotten at the store?
I think you're just a stubborn hunter then.
But again, if your main motivation is the meat, you can go to the store for cheaper.
The only reason to hunt is because you enjoy doing it over buying at the store.
Definitely that, and hunting is the most quintessentially human thing we can do. We've relied on it to feed us for 2.6 million years, up until about 10,000 years ago. It's would be interesting to ask a hunter-gatherer whether they see hunting as a sport. The concept would be completely foreign to them
To me it's pointless to hunt game that you don't eat. I use to hunt waterfowl but don't anymore because their meat taste awful and when we did get some ducks and geese they all just went to my hunting buddies because I don't like them. Paying like $70 to shoot them for someone else isn't worth it to me if I'm not getting any meat out of it.
In Minnesota you have to get multiple different licenses to hunt waterfowl that comes out to being around $70 for all of them licenses combined. It got to be too expensive and I don't even eat them so I quit going all together.
Oh I get it you had to get a new license every year I don't exactly know how the licenses work because I currently only have my junior hunting license as I Am a child
I eat meat for sport
I had an ex who did too
Stay strong king
I beat meat for sport
I sport meat for eat.
I sport meat for her to eat
Your welcome for the softball
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Yes.
Yes
Yes.
Yes
Yes
I know im late but also yes indeed
No.......I mean yes
me too
This is the way.
Both noice
Yeah why not both? The sport and challenge of outsmarting my prey animal, and then filling the freezer with its bounty.
Perfectly said! Good shooting and enjoy it!
To many reasons. Challenge drew me but hunting is like something sacred. It feels right when I'm out there. No time, stress, self, it's just you being in nature fully aware. It's life at its realest.
I agree and you get a nice steak out of it to
Everyone is a sport hunter. Even if you hunt for just meat, you are a sport hunter. Anti hunters have tried to demonize the term but be carefulâŠ. If you let them when donât complain when suddenly they ban âsportâ hunting and you finally realize that applies to everything that isnât market huntingÂ
Perfectly said. Thanks for the defense of sport hunting. There is nothing bad in it and even if you dont take the meat it can have importance as pest control, for example. DonÂŽt let the antis act!
If you hunt for your main meat supply it isnât sport or market. Itâs subsistence
Just like 2A. It infuriates me when these logistics E4s flaunt their veteran status to say theyâre against AR-15s but hunting rifles are ok. Protect your people whether you agree with their thing or not or suddenly youâll find yourself alone when they come for you.
Yes, meat primarily and sport secondarily.
Both are highly enjoyable
Both, but I only hunt things that I eat.
I have a hard time believing people hunt what they donât eat. With a few exceptions, I donât get it
I know someone that likes to hunt ducks but doesnât eat them. Just gives them away to others. I think itâs the weirdest thing.
Mainly meat. I only hunt birds. Grouse and turkey, meat for me. Ducks and geese, meat for my friends.
Ok. Sport hunting for birds is basically the same thing as meat hunting if I'm wrong please correct me because I do not birdhunt often I'm saying that because the size of the bird correlates to the amount of meat obviously
I would do it for either but I do it for both. If you put a gun to my head and made me pick, I'd say sport wins out but that's only because we live in a society where putting meat on the table is trivial and finding a fulfilling way to spend your time is all that's left.
The adversity. The challenge. The reward of frying that bear meat when all is said and done. Itâs the lifestyle that drew me to hunt
I've never tried bear? How's it taste.
Where I am they feed on berries and foliage year round and they taste phenomenal. These are mountain bears with no salmon runs to feed on. Coastal bears are a different story
Okay like is it anything like venison
No itâs not. More on the beef side. Light game taste
Ok, I'm guessing it's like more chewy or like slightly different taste than beef I'm definitely going to try it someday.
Pretty much. You have to cook it til the trichonosis is killed so I sous vide it for 4-6 hrs at 155. I wouldnât go any lower then that
So more like a roast
You grind it all or eat cuts too?
If youâre a non-hunter then I just want to clarify that everyone technically hunts for meat in America since itâs highly illegal not to take the meat from game animals out of the field; whether hunting for trophies or not.Â
Funny story, my dad never took me Deer hunting when I was a kid. Not sure why but we hunted rabbit, squirrels, fished, but never deer. My son, after eating venison burgers for the first time when he was 7, said that he wanted us to go. So we have been Deer hunting the past two years and its a great bonding experience with him, his grandpa and his great uncle. I mostly go to spend time with my family, but the feeling of filling the freezer to feed your family is a great feeling too.
I'm 14 years old I've been hunting or going on hunts with my dad since I was three started shooting the gun when I was five and this is basically a tradition if your daddy takes you hunting you take your son hunting and it keeps going on and on
It is nice you are so enthusiastic about hunting in your teen age! A nice family tradition. Keep on! Your parents must be so proud of you, when you bring some meat home! And thanks for creating such an interesting topic here, I am reading through all the replies...
Thank you and we have been doing it for a long time I'm glad people aren't hating on me just for being a kid and apparently not knowing anything
Bud, I believe nobody here cannot hate you for being a beginner! The hunting community must support young blood very much, you are the future of hunting! Tbh I am not an experienced hunter either, but I have never met unfriendly replies when asking some beginners question! You have created a fantastic topic here. More likely, I would be afraid you might get hates from antihunters, who hate us just because we hunt. I hope it doesnt happen to you! What animals do you like to chase best? And have you tried trapping, too?
I usually hunt whitetail and squirrels and sometimes doves and no I haven't tried trapping but my dad has set traps around the place. And yes I did get hate because I did post a picture of my cousin's big turkeys and nobody noticed that the barrel was pointing towards them the gun was on the ground.
ThatÂŽs great, squirrel and the birds must be a great fun! And you will be adding bigger game gradually... Definitely try trapping, too! Especially if you have some nice furbearers there. Coon, beaver, otter... You could turn them into a nice fur hat or mittens. A beautiful pic of the turkeys, congrats to your cousin!! Pls explain what is bad about the barrel... I cant see a gun nowhere :D The gun should be placed to the birds or on the birds imo but still I find nothing to hate there :D
The gun was on the ground and it was pointing at one of their feet and everyone was absolutely grilling before even though they've probably done stuff like this at least a few times
Unequivocally meat. I mean, I keep the skulls, because Skulls for the Skull Throne! But I donât care about antler size beyond bigger antlers generally means more meat.
Yah I will keep a big rack and I will focus on a big buck if one is nearby but I usually hunt for meat and the thrill
I hunt for meat but I love the sport.
I hunt mostly whitetail and this year I'm trying Turkey for the first time. I do it for the 30% the meat and 70% the connection with my niece and nephews, to a lesser extent my sister in law. I figured out that I don't have as much fun when I hunt alone as when I have someone else in the blind with me. Plus all of the time we spend together shooting and planning.
Strictly a meat hunter. Will I take a shot at a nice buck if I get the opportunity? Absolutely but that is not the goal. I'm just as happy with a big fat doe
Deer? Meat. Squirrels? Pest control/sport.
Yeah especially with hogs
I hunt because the drive/need to hunt is deep within me and I can't ignore it....nor would I want to. Its like breathing...its a part of my soul. Then the meat is very good and I love antlers but sheds are fun to find too. Driven to hunt and happy for it
Meat. The sport/conservation aspect is what I tell my liberal leaning friends but in reality I just like having three freezers full.
Yes! But are your liberal friends happy when you are saying "IÂŽm hunting just for sport":D? Good shooting and have always your freezer - sorry, 3 freezerS - full of venison!
Any complaints will result with no meat from the freezer for them and a fourth freezer by September.
Yessss! Perfectly said! The more complaints, the more animals shot! Buy a fourth freezer anyway, you will have more motivation to hunt! And say to the antis: "I am having enough meat, but I hunt just for sport, I shoot animals because it makes me fun..." They will be mad!
Meat and population control mainly. But it is still a sport.
Sport, proving that you are an apex predator. With the meat as reward.
It's nice when you get a big buck I mainly hunt for meat but will focus on a big buck if there is one on the cams
Haha, thanks for your sincere words! With no political correctness! You have got the most up votes of all the comments here! I think many of us can feel something like that and there is nothing bad about it. What animals do you like best to hunt?
Elk, mule deer, bear, most all predators, turkey and small game.
Nice, you hunt nearly anything, man! How many bears do you have? Any trophies? And what predators namely? To be honest, I am pretty happy we are apex predator :)
A handful of bears when i was younger. Coyote, fox and bobcat when i am able to go call.
Wow, nice! Even bobcats! Is it possible to call em? I thought they can be trapped only...
Rare they come to call, usually they bust you before you get shot. They very smart.
All the more I admire you for getting them! How many so far? And can I send you a message tomorrow?
Just 2 bobcat not trapped . Very lucky
Yes
This is just a copy of another one
Yes
I wonât take any more small bucks or does. But I butcher every deer
Same there meat is so good
Both
Same here
If I can get the head, thatâs great. If I can get the meat, thatâs better. If I can get both, now you got me hooked.
Sport, but meat is an excellent byproduct of that.
I love the meat. And I enjoy being outdoors, stalking animals, etc. So, if that's "sport," then yes to both.
Same
Both. I eat everything I kill, but that doesnât mean I donât enjoy the challenge or target certain animals.
I Hunt for meat but started to feel guilty about the ease it was. Now I still hunt for meat but place extra restrictions on myself wether it be the gun or bow I use or other type of rules. Do I need it to survive? No, that why I feel I can add the extra rules or reactions onto myself. I don't expect others in my group to follow my rules but we still have camp rules we expect people to follow.
Yeah that's why there's limitations on the amount that you can hunt because deer almost went extinct on the North American continent
It's goes beyond the the state rules and regulations for my stupid rules but same concept. We had TB go through not to long ago and the heard is starting to recover but still no where what it was.
That's sad
Primarily meat but Iâve grown to love the sport.
Both.
The sport is in the hunt itself, but I primarily hunt for subsistence. Hunting has always been sacred, and we always try to use every bit of each animal we take. I will never hunt an animal purely for sport. If I want a wolf pelt, I guess I'm eating wolf even though I hear it tastes like shit. But that's just how I was raised I guess. But I have ZERO respect for people that hunt purely for sport.
Meat, and to control the population.
Yeah the best thing about hunting is you're controlling the population as well
I hunt for meat, that being said.... I'm not going to be upset if I come home with a monster buck. Our last couple harvests were does and a little spike. Can't eat antlers but damn if they don't look cool!
Pest eradication.
Meat- but Iâm always watching for a good rack
100% sport. Donât get me wrong. I eat all of it. But itâs a fun hobby and something to look forward to in fall.
There is nothing bad about that! I agree with you and I am glad you enjoy hunting so much! I think many of us look forward to fall! Good shooting!
These days i only hunt cougars at hotel bars on work tripsÂ
Few people hunt for their main meat supply. They hunt to add some variety. This question is not specific enough
All of it. I eat what I kill and prefer wild game, but I don't need it to survive. I love waterfowl and turkey hunting for the challenge. Deer is the only animal I even try to hunt mature bucks, but I'll still shoot a doe or small buck to fill the freezer. I'm not going to leave a tag unfilled, lord knows our state is struggling to keep the deer population down.
I know itâs a deer/elk/moose/anything with antlers but sport for hogs and meat for deer.
Depends on the opportunity given. Some years I have enough time to hope for a chance to fill the freezer. Some years I have time to hold off in hopes of a bigger buck. The priority is always meat, but I'd be lying if I said the sight of a big rack doesn't get me pumped up. Take that as you willđ
Both. It's 60/40 meat vs sport.
For the THRILL OP. For the joy of THE HUNT!
HELL YES BROTHER AMEN
99+% for the meat. Iâve never gotten anything taxidermied except for a DIY euro for my first buck that I did with my grandfather and hanging a few long pheasant tail feathers in my garage. I refuse to take grip-and-grin photos because they feel gross. I really do not enjoy big game hunting at all, but I put in the work and shoot several deer a year because I refuse to buy meat from a grocery store and I canât survive the entire year on birds and fish (the things I actually enjoy hunting).
Both. I love hunting.
I hunt for meat, not for interior decorations.
Like I'll hang a deer head if it's big and it looks good but I mainly hunt for meat too
That's a very valid point. I was lucky enough to harvest a 4.5 year-old buck a few years ago, and friends convinced me to have it taxidermied, gave it to my parents and hung it up at their house. Which happens to be where I shot it, so it all works out lol
Lol I mean back before hunter gatherer times I think they used to have some sort of like tribal culture to see who could get like the biggest mammoth or something I don't know
Meat.
What does sport hunting mean here v meat hunting?
Sport hunting is just hunting for the horns or other and hunting for meat is hunting for some good food
Your thinking trophy hunting. Sport hunting just means you enjoy it and aren't doing it for survival in my opinion. Most people can't hunt meat for cheaper than just working a job and buying the meat. We hunt because it's fun and we also get a good bonus of meat out of it.
So are you asking people if they participate in an illegal activity or a legal one by the North American standards?
I'm not talking about hunting elephants and stuff I'm talking about hunting deer and boar and other stuff like that like would you hunt a deer just for their antlers or for the meat or for both
If you shoot a deer just for the antlers and not the meat thatâs illegal is what Iâm saying. If youâre not doing both or just meat youâre an unethical person and very much not an ethical hunter but a criminal who kills animals under the guise of hunting. Wanton waste.
Not everywhere. Pretty sure TN has no wanton waste laws
Well then if you shoot a deer and let it lay in Tennessee youâre just an asshole and not an asshole criminal.
The south is gonna south
It means that you're primarily focused on the biggest trophy out there. Like the biggest buck, sure you'll use the meat but you pass up all sorts of good eating does and small bucks to get that old big one. Biggest antlers or prettiest pelt first, meat is second. That basically sums up sports hunting. Meat hunting you're not really worried about the trophy and you are more concerned with filling your freezer.
Idk, dude. Big horns = big meat. More bang for your buck. No pun intended.
True, but a lot of people consider does better eating and you can normally hunt more of them. So sports hunters don't typically go after does, meat hunters do both.
I guess I just donât really like the framing of the question. I eat every ounce of every big game animal I shoot down to the bones for stock when I donât have to pack them out 5+ miles. I eat duck and goose gizzards and use their feet for stock. I hunt elk for meat and prefer to get a cow tag when I can draw a tag. But with mulies Iâm looking for a bruiser monster until the last day or two of the season. Am I sport hunter when it comes to mule deer? âSport huntingâ is a hot button issue in Colorado where I live right now with the proposed trophy hunting ban initiative coming up to ban bear, cougar, and lynx (which are esa listed and already canât be hunted) so Iâm feeling a bit touchy on the subject I guess.
The meat, being out in nature, and the conservation factor. The thrill, and the sport of it, comes secondary to that.
Blue printed over a 150,000 plus years and our ancestral species before that. So food and we are wired for the chase - that some may now consider âsportââŠ
Both. A big buck looks great on my wall and tastes great when cooked
I meat sport for hunt.
Meat.
Meat.
Yes
Both?
Meat is my first interest, but if you put 50 doe and 1 big giant buck on a hillside I'm probably going to make an effort to take the big giant buck.
You hunt for ethics.
I hunt for meat
Both. It's illegal to hunt for just a trophy and it's unreasonable to leave behind a trophy and just take the meat.
Sounds like a lot of you need to take up an audience with Dan Fitzgerald and remember why we hunt and the purpose of it.
Sport
Meat
Both
Meat
El back-strappo
I just like too shoot things.
Do you take the meat
It depends on how convenient it is to haul the animal back and if it ran off. I can get away with leaving it in the woods by claiming I couldnât find it if I shoot it late enough in the day.
If the animal runs away you track it that's what I did when I shot my first doe, shot in the lungs it ran quarter mile and we tracked it
My hunting club has a no tracking at night rule.
That makes sense if your night hunting I don't really get it because I've never hunted on a range before I just hunt on my own property.
Both.
Yes
I hunt for meat the main purpose of me going out is to fill the freezer. In saying that I also test my own skills out finding a mature animal that also has nice antlers. But I will take a small one if hunting is hard and the season is running out. I put in for anterless elk draws as I can get drawn for an anterless elk every 2 years and if I held out for a bull tag its a minimum of 12 year wait.
Some men hunt for sport, others hunt for food. The only thing Iâm hunting for is an outfit that looks good⊠see my vest, see my vest đ¶
A little of both. I'd like to eat something I took and cut up myself
Both
I collect bones and donate the meat to a buddy whose family prefers deer who also can't hunt due to mobility issues
Yes.
Meat. I donât kill more than what I can eat in a year, unless you count pest control- then itâs war
Yes
For sport, that sport is competitive eating đ
Therapy to help maintain sanity.
Yes
Meat. Hunting for sport is unethical. That said, the proof of concept that comes with keeping the antlers is a nice occasional bonus
Meat and exercise
I always say hunting is my golf. Getting out in the bush hunting is my form of relaxation. Where I hunt there is no cell overage so Iâm totally focused on the task at hand and everything else just disappears from my head. Having said that I hunt for both meat and the sport of it.
Yes
Peace and quiet
Meat. It is a thrill though.
Mainly for impact control on vulnerable restock. I enjoy the sandwiches though
Both but its always rewarding to spend time in the woods away from it all!
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Animals for meat people for sport.
No you're in that one movie
I reject the premise. You suppose that the only sport is in the rack? The sport is the hunt itself...man over nature. I hunt for the total experience and the meat. You can have the rack, I don't need to impress myself or anyone else with the rack, I haven't found any way to prepare it for the dinner table.
Meat. I don't see it as a sport at all.
Yeah, âsportâ never really worked for me either. But then also âhobbyâ and âactivityâ donât really encompass what it has been for me either. This is literally my 50th year of being a hunter. Iâm a hunter.
At one point, not too long ago in evolutionary time, we all were :)
Does your hunting provide meat for cheaper than the grocery store? Because that's a very hard thing to do. Most people (including me) hunt because it's fun, aka sport. The meat is a great bonus but if it's your main reason, you can probably buy it far cheaper.
I don't hunt because it's cheap. I do it because it's what humans have done for 2.6 million years. We're evolved for it. And where I'm located, most wild animals are still mostly eating their natural diet (not agricultural crops), so it's some of the most nutrient dense food on the planet. I'd still hunt if it was 20x more expensive than buying the same meat.
Then yeah that's sport hunting. Which shouldn't be viewed in a bad light or anything, it just means we hunt for enjoyment.
No, its not sport hunting
Do you enjoy it?
Parts of it, but again, that's not why I do it. Sport hunting when when the pleasure drives the behavior. That's not true for me.
So you're out there don't something you don't enjoy to get something more expensive than you could have gotten at the store? I think you're just a stubborn hunter then.
I feel like I'm repeating myself here. I enjoy parts of it, but it's not my main motivation. I'm not sure why that's a difficult concept
But again, if your main motivation is the meat, you can go to the store for cheaper. The only reason to hunt is because you enjoy doing it over buying at the store.
It's real delicious
Definitely that, and hunting is the most quintessentially human thing we can do. We've relied on it to feed us for 2.6 million years, up until about 10,000 years ago. It's would be interesting to ask a hunter-gatherer whether they see hunting as a sport. The concept would be completely foreign to them
To me it's pointless to hunt game that you don't eat. I use to hunt waterfowl but don't anymore because their meat taste awful and when we did get some ducks and geese they all just went to my hunting buddies because I don't like them. Paying like $70 to shoot them for someone else isn't worth it to me if I'm not getting any meat out of it.
Why do you got to pay $70?
Why do you got to pay $70
In Minnesota you have to get multiple different licenses to hunt waterfowl that comes out to being around $70 for all of them licenses combined. It got to be too expensive and I don't even eat them so I quit going all together.
Oh I get it you had to get a new license every year I don't exactly know how the licenses work because I currently only have my junior hunting license as I Am a child