quote:

Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
I also think you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat animals, even in the act of taking their lives.

This^^^

i was a hired gun at 11 yrs old a farmer paid me and my friend to shoot crows in the corn field for 10 cents a pop we both had daisy 880's

I've shot my share of nuisance animals, and put quite a few injured ones down as well. I don't particularly like killing things, but when necessary I will do it, and I try to do it as quickly and humanely as possible. I also hunt for meat, but I've not had much success.

My son and I fish a lot, primarily for bass. We like to catch and release...there's something magnificent about landing a large fish, then gently releasing him and watching him flick his tail and swim away. Injured or gullet hooked ones we will keep and eat if they are legal size. We also eat Bluegill and Crappie. I still don't really enjoy killing and cleaning them, but they sure do taste good.

So to answer the question...I don't feel that it's wrong to take life, but it needs to be done with purpose, and with respect.

quote:

Originally posted by 46and2:

quote:

or rhino just to see it die

What about a man in Reno?

I'm a little young for JC, so for me it was Brooklyn.

Only Bestie Boys fans will understand that.

Many many many.

Killed a songbird of some kind as a kid with a BB gun, and felt pretty much shitty about it afterwards. Killed a dog in Iraq that had a nearly severed foreleg infested with maggots. Killed a crow and a deer that were eating in my father-in-law's garden. The deer fed my family for about 4 months.

i prefer harsh language

-----------------------------

Yes, small game and deer and turkey.

Para,

My story is nearly the same except is was a sparrow on a power line with a BB in a slingshot/wrist rocket. Nearly impossible shot, surprised I hit it. I was probably 10-11 as well. I cried and then buried it.

I don't hunt, I've shot some prairie dogs on my uncle's land and shot "at" some Taliban jerks on a far away ridge, no way I hit anything though.

A few dozen hogs. Several armadillos. A few possums. A couple deer. A couple snakes. A coyote. And a cow.

Last thing I shot was an armadillo.

The critter was running around at three in the afternoon and charging at my dogs from the other side of the fence. Assumed it had rabies or some other ailment and put it out of its misery.

Usually I'll leave a trap out near the house if the critters are digging up the yard. Then I take them towards the creek in the back yard and let them go. They seem to like the creek better anyway as I can't say I've trapped the same one twice.

No, I have never shot and killed a living creature. However, my father and uncles were all hunters, and I have no ill feelings about hunting--I just didn't want to do it. I have eaten and enjoyed the fruits of their hunting, and I regularly eat meat that has been commercially butchered.

flashguy

A bird like Para, a goose, a handful of deer, a couple antelope and an Elk.

(Edit to remove non firearm related kills)

Started hunting at an early age, continues to today. Guess around 60 years. Rabbit, squirrel, pheasant, turkey, duck, quail & dove. Always take my kills home for lunch or supper.

Never got into Deer hunting, seemed like too much work.

quote:

Originally posted by parabellum:
Yes, a damn near impossible shot (which is why I took it, I guess) at a Blue Jay. Crosman BB gun when I was ten years old. When it hit the bird, I thought I had missed, because it flew off the branch it was sitting on and made a slow, lazy circle to the ground, then didn't move any more. No one- including the bird- was more surprised than me. The next day, the woman who lived in the
house chastised me and asked me the point of doing that. I coudn't answer her. Since then, no, nothing else, and you can laugh or roll your eyes, but I still think about that bird and I still feel bad about it.

Para was it a Crosman 760 Powermaster, bolt loader all metal with wood furniture 1st variant?
And do you still have it?

I have killed(butchered) 35 pigs.

Yes. Didn’t want to but had to.

I shot a robin out of a tree with a BB gun when I was 16 or so. I felt horrible. totally didn't mean to, or didn't expect to hit it, or whatever. definitely not my greatest day.

A few years ago I shot a bunch of whistle-pigs with a .22 with my dad and (now ex-)brother-in-law. That was a pretty good day.

I still have yet to go hunting. Never been, although I grew up on stories from my dad about his hunting adventures growing up in Idaho. My dad still wants to take me, and now my (half)brother wants to take me, too.

Other than quail, pheasants, grouse, ducks, geese, deer, elk, bears, wild boars, (some of which was done in Germany and Iran)?

Yes, many times than I can recall.
Hunting of course and butchering of livestock on the family farm.

Cows, pigs, sheep, chickens.

Deer, woodchuck and squirrels

Feral dogs running livestock as well.