And my idea of hunting is tracking down the animal and taking a few good pictures of it. No blood, no motherless pups left to die and good memories to pass on.
Until another form of life kills and eats it...besides...if you know how to hunt...you just need to be in the right place at the right time and not get unlucky. Short of bird hunting...the game comes to you. You just need to think like them and guess where they are going to be and of course us nature to your advantage.
We are not part of their natural habit
(any more nor have we for a long time) and any animal that is scared of you is not going to let you anywhere near it, any animal that is not scared of you that you encounter has a good chance of requiring you to have a shotgun strapped to your shoulder or nature will leave you with no memories to pass on...that is the truth.
If a deer kicks you in the head, it will kill you...but you won't get that close to one unless you corner it so let's forget about those kinds of animals for a sec...a bear even a cub is stronger, faster and has way more stamina than a human. Without a weapon, you don't stand a chance...they don't care if your only armed with a camera. They view you as an intruder to their domain no matter where they are at the moment. You pose a threat to them just for being there just like almost any animal will initially view it. The difference is a bear or a coyote or a wolf will preemptively disassemble that threat before it becomes a real threat to their safety, that is if they aren't even hunting themselves. You still have a chance in this case. If they are hunting and you are without a weapon, you have no chance to survive.
I have packed a bag and lived off of nature for an extended period of time. Trust me when I say (and mind you I love nature and respect all of it's creatures) most of nature is not very forgiving or understanding and if you get too comfortable and forget that...nature can remind you at a most inopportune time of how violent it can be. I don't blame nature for that...I applaud it...that is why life thrives on this planet...the will to survive. When bees build a hive on the eve of your front door...do you not call them pests and remove them, when birds break through the louvers on your attic vents don't you get them out...or termites even ..you flush the infestation. To the termites, they are a civilization. Yet to us they are not because they can destroy enough of your house in a couple of years that it could collapse around you. It's all about survival.
When the natives of the US lived alone here...they lived in tune with nature...they never abused it and they always were thankful for it. They killed buffalo in herds...they only took what they needed and never wasted any of it...the buffalo thrived as they did. When furs started being traded for other goods at a high rate with profiteers, the buffalo heard was all but diminished. There is a difference between hunting and murdering. Any animal that I don't eat and that won't eat me or rage kill me over territory, I don't hunt or kill.
I say all of this because of the implications people often project that all hunters are heartless and cruel people because of the fact that most people have been removed from the act of actually providing their own food source and raw materials for goods.
I have killed many animals in my life, none in waste or fury. All were felled to aid in my or others survival and within the laws of whatever area I was in at the time. I have had all the permits and written permissions necessary and always respected the laws of nature and the laws of civilized man as determined by my geographical location when doing so.
Again I have posted this video somewhere already on the forum but it is so relevant. As you watch...ask yourself if you think the person communicating with the animal is a cruel person...mind you the food that is already on the ground that the animal walks past. That animal has accepted me over time because of a trust that can not be explained with words. If I sit outside in the backyard that particular squirrel will walk right behind me and sit with his back against mine. He recognizes that I also like him feel no animosity to the other and that he can literally rely on me to watch his back. When he wants to sprawl out in the sun in back yard he will come tap on the glass to see if I come out. If it is anyone else but me that opens the door...he runs.
How is this relevant to godaddy, sopa , bob parsons and peoples rights on the internet?
It's not.
But neither is godaddy, sopa, bob parsons and a hunting expedition.
SOPA is a very important issue and talking about what Bob Parsons does legally in his own time is not going to solve anything. Neither is getting people to side against godaddy to reject SOPA because then they are misinformed and rejecting the wrong idea entirely based on pulling heart strings of people with an affinity for animals . This topic is a whole different can of worms and talks about how he is a bad person for hunting is going to make honorable hunters like me want to respond with the facts that I know. I will gladly debate this with anyone in a different topic but this is not the place for it. Feel free to start the thread and invite me via a conversation msg.
