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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Ok, I am assuming you are serious. I am not a hunter - in fact I am dead against it (although I used to go on fox hunts when I was young - most of the time we just dragged a scent but I have hunted an actual fox). But this is what I don't get. Isn't hunting supposed to be, aside from the bonding aspects, which is the part of fishing that I like, about actual hunting? i.e. tracking something down, stalking it, and using strategy to actually kill it? Not trying for the biggest kill possible in the least amount of time, which is what it strikes me that this kind of thing would do.
This isn't anything against Burger - I've seen this kind of attitude before among hunters and I don't get it. It seems to me to make hunting less of a sport and more of just an exercise in killing as much as possible in as little time as possible.
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FWIW, most of the hunters I know get up at some god awful hour in the morning, drag their asses to a cold swamp and sit for a few hours watching the world (and hopefully some ducks) go by. Sure, they'd like to get a duck or two, but they go out mainly for the experience. If they're just shooting, then they do things a bit differently.
I think my sister's dog's heart starts racing around this time of year, because he knows duck season is about to start soon. A few weeks ago, he was at a place where the guys went off with someone's Tec and I think he nearly had a heart attack. He heard all the gunshots and wasn't invited to go along to retrieve.
