I FINALLY WAS ABLE TO SHOOT A PIG! YAY! This was the first pig I have ever shot and it was fun. He was also HUGE! 300 pounds! We will have a lot of pork...
Do you mean a boar? Well done!
Um, how is shooting - and KILLING - something fun? To me that's just.....Sad. I'm sorry, but killing animals is kinda cruel, don't you think? I'm not a big meat eater.
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on January 21, 2014, 10:07:45 PM
Do you mean a boar? Well done!
Yes! It is huge! We skinned it and now we have almost 70 pounds of meat!
Quote from: Cornflower MM on January 21, 2014, 10:40:14 PM
Um, how is shooting - and KILLING - something fun? To me that's just.....Sad. I'm sorry, but killing animals is kinda cruel, don't you think? I'm not a big meat eater.
Well, it is all in your opinion. If you'd like to know my opinion just Pm me.
Whoa! Were you hunting or something?
BAAAACCCOOOOOOON FOOORR EEEEEVERYBODYYYY!
I'm done. ;)
Quote from: Rainshadow on January 22, 2014, 12:27:14 AM
Whoa! Were you hunting or something?
Yes. We took our neighbors dogs out to try to track 'em down because own of the sow's just had a litter so the male (which we were after) would guard the litter and we wanted him. The dogs didn't do us any good though so my brother and I sat in a treestand for about twenty minutes and then he came and we shot him!
Quote from: Norham Waterpaw on January 22, 2014, 01:34:53 AM
BAAAACCCOOOOOOON FOOORR EEEEEVERYBODYYYY!
I'm done. ;)
yeah, 30 pounds of it!
So, Bacon weighs barely anything. 30 pounds of bacon = the darn happiest looking interior of a fridge ever.
;D
Quote from: Tam and Martin on January 21, 2014, 10:04:53 PM
I FINALLY WAS ABLE TO SHOOT A PIG! YAY! This was the first pig I have ever shot and it was fun. He was also HUGE! 300 pounds! We will have a lot of pork...
Nice! I wouldn't be able to enjoy it, though.
Quote from: Cornflower MM on January 21, 2014, 10:40:14 PM
Um, how is shooting - and KILLING - something fun? To me that's just.....Sad. I'm sorry, but killing animals is kinda cruel, don't you think? I'm not a big meat eater.
Cruel? Why do you think animals were put here? No offense, but if we did not kill and eat meat, these animal would overpopulate and cause problems. Not only that, meat is an important part of the daily diet, and how else would you acquire meat besides kill the animal you get it from? But I digress; overkilling is bad too.
Jesus people! Have you ANY feelings AT ALL for those poor animals? I'm outta here. You people are just too....Meat oriented! *Stomps out of topic, never to return*
Quote from: Cornflower MM on January 22, 2014, 08:39:59 PM
Jesus people! Have you ANY feelings AT ALL for those poor animals? I'm outta here. You people are just too....Meat oriented! *Stomps out of topic, never to return*
Not that you'll be seeing this but I could give you my reasons for killing.
I think we have offended her.
Anyways, what did you kill it with specifically?
Did you keep the pelt?
I'm surprised no one has said BACON yet. ;D Anyway.... ugh. I don't eat it. :P
CHEESECAKE BACON
BACON CHEESECAKE
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on January 23, 2014, 02:33:16 AM
Did you keep the pelt?
If it was really a pig or a boar, the 'pelt' wouldn't be much except rawhide :P
Quote from: The Skarzs on January 22, 2014, 09:49:10 PM
I think we have offended her.
Anyways, what did you kill it with specifically?
I killed it with a 12 Gauge Shotgun.
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on January 23, 2014, 02:33:16 AM
Did you keep the pelt?
Nah, not good enough to keep.
Quote from: The Skarzs on January 23, 2014, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on January 23, 2014, 02:33:16 AM
Did you keep the pelt?
If it was really a pig or a boar, the 'pelt' wouldn't be much except rawhide :P
Yeah....
First off, congratulations! I may have different beliefs than you about meat and stuff, but I can tell that takes skill. Boar/pig... They can be fast, right?
Quote from: Cornflower MM on January 21, 2014, 10:40:14 PM
Um, how is shooting - and KILLING - something fun? To me that's just.....Sad. I'm sorry, but killing animals is kinda cruel, don't you think? I'm not a big meat eater.
Cruel? Why do you think animals were put here? No offense, but if we did not kill and eat meat, these animal would overpopulate and cause problems. Not only that, meat is an important part of the daily diet, and how else would you acquire meat besides kill the animal you get it from? But I digress; overkilling is bad too.
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And in response to this... Well, animals wouldn't overpopulate if we hadn't taken their land. Nature balances itself out, humanity doesn't. Also, meat doesn't have to be part of a daily diet- Vegetarians and vegans don't die. We just eat lots of things like beans and vegetables.
That being said, since humans
have messed up the balance of hunter/prey, humans hunting animals to keep their population under check is a noble thing... Even if the problem was caused by other humans.
In some places, hunting keeps the environment healthy. There are those that abuse the right to hunt, and make a bad name for the good responsible hunters. It's from these bad and disrespectful hunters that most rumors start from, and turns the idea of hunting into something sour for many people.
Yes, there are other sources of protein, but meat is among the most, shall we say, abundant of protein. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I suggest that you 'change your thinking' or anything, but I believe that meat is very important to have. Any vegetarians, I hope you aren't, like, offended, because that's not what I'm trying to do. All I am trying to do is explain what I think.
Quote from: rusvulthesaber on January 24, 2014, 04:28:56 PM
First off, congratulations! I may have different beliefs than you about meat and stuff, but I can tell that takes skill. Boar/pig... They can be fast, right?
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Thank you. Yes they are very fast sometimes though this one was so heavy he wasn't running real fast. I do understand though those who have different beliefs than I do about meat and hinting and respect their decicions.
Quote from: Tam and Martin on January 24, 2014, 03:52:23 PM
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on January 23, 2014, 02:33:16 AM
Did you keep the pelt?
Nah, not good enough to keep.
Quote from: The Skarzs on January 23, 2014, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on January 23, 2014, 02:33:16 AM
Did you keep the pelt?
If it was really a pig or a boar, the 'pelt' wouldn't be much except rawhide :P
Yeah....
Okay :)
Oink. :P
Freaky...
What's so freaky? I mean, besides ME.
What is freaky is when he gets woken up by the touch of a mud-caked trotter...holding... a rusty hachet. :-X *Dramatic organ music plays*
Quote from: The Shade on January 26, 2014, 01:42:31 PM
What is freaky is when he gets woken up by the touch of a mud-caked trotter...holding... a rusty hachet. :-X *Dramatic organ music plays*
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REVIVE!
I revived this because.. eh.. it was one of the threads that appeared when I clicked on subject.
Anyway, about pig hunting... it's actually good for the environment. Pigs, you see, are not native to North America. They were introduced here by European settlers, and have done a fair amount of damage to the ecosystem, driving native species out. Therefore, I have pretty much no sympathy for the pig. It's not right to torture or otherwise unnecessarily cause pain to the pig, but by all means, I'm fine with hunting it.
Awesome.
Quote from: Izeroth on December 31, 2014, 02:28:53 AM
REVIVE!
I revived this because.. eh.. it was one of the threads that appeared when I clicked on subject.
Anyway, about pig hunting... it's actually good for the environment. Pigs, you see, are not native to North America. They were introduced here by European settlers, and have done a fair amount of damage to the ecosystem, driving native species out. Therefore, I have pretty much no sympathy for the pig. It's not right to torture or otherwise unnecessarily cause pain to the pig, but by all means, I'm fine with hunting it.
We have boar problems here too, but they have mostly gone now. But hunting, I do
not support hunting.
Hunting is probably the best way to deal with boars. You can't trap them and relocate them, because they're not supposed to be anywhere on the North American continent (and I believe it's actually illegal to release them into the wild.) I suppose you could donate them to a farmer, but they might be too wild to control.
Quote from: Izeroth on December 31, 2014, 03:51:12 AM
Hunting is probably the best way to deal with boars. You can't trap them and relocate them, because they're not supposed to be anywhere on the North American continent (and I believe it's actually illegal to release them into the wild.) I suppose you could donate them to a farmer, but they might be too wild to control.
No, in my city state, boars are there, but they have mostly disappeared with little hunting.
I helped my Texan uncle shoot a 250lb boar once. He owns a ranch and boars tear up the ground and eat the roots of the grass and stuff. Not only does it take food away for the cattle, but they can step in that and break they're leg. But we shot it from far off, in the head. He never knew what hit him, or that anything happened.
Quote from: Soren the Warrior on December 31, 2014, 05:24:46 AM
I helped my Texan uncle shoot a 250lb boar once. He owns a ranch and boars tear up the ground and eat the roots of the grass and stuff. Not only does it take food away for the cattle, but they can step in that and break they're leg. But we shot it from far off, in the head.
Ok then.