BH, everyone is entitled their own feelings and opinion, and seriously I think yours would be much better suited with a camera instead of a weapon. If you truly feel like the statement below, then you need a new hobby, because their are lots of things you could do that would not involve you doing something that you really dont like to do, and just do it because its part of the hobby you have chosen.
If you dont like it then dont do it!

I know where you are coming from BH, and I respect your opinion.
I know you truely love to hunt.....I can tell! Alot of posters
try to beat up on you, but I respect a man who is not afraid to
say what he really thinks.

By the way, your post probably create more discussions on this
site than any other.

I don't Winchester, that view may be too harsh. I too approach taking another animal's life very, VERY seriously. It is not something I do lightly. In fact, I seriously worry about the mental health of any person who can easily take life, without consideration.

I don't Winchester, that view may be too harsh. I too approach taking another animal's life very, VERY seriously. It is not something I do lightly. In fact, I seriously worry about the mental health of any person who can easily take life, without consideration.

Or I could be mentally ill.

Once I see a deer I want to kill I give more thought to blinking my eyes than I do pulling the trigger. I believe its just instinctive to kill something that Im going to eat.

To provide is instinctive. Killing is often part of that. Gaining "pleasure" from successfully providing is why it has become instinctive--it is "how" Nature produces the instinct. You can kill to provide--or kill to be successful--and still take the process of causing death seriously.

However, killing without cumpunction--for no reason other than causing death--or revelling in causing death, is a serious mental illness.

However, killing without cumpunction--for no reason other than causing death--or revelling in causing death, is a serious mental illness.

Then why do you guys hunt with a weapon? If you dont like what you have set out to do, which in hunting the end result is 100% the killing of an animal, then why do it?

I didn't say I didn't like killing as a part of hunting, I said I take the fact I'm killing another living thing very seriously. Those are two different things. I can kill for justifiable reasons--and providing is a justifiable reason. But I never take the fact I'm killing lightly. It is something I have spent considerable time justifying in my own mind.

A big difference exists between revelling in a successful hunt, which often involves killing, and revelling in the act of killing. One thing that really worries me, when the inevitable thread on "Why do you deer hunt?", comes up again as it often does, is someone will posts--and it happens every time--"Because I like to see them flop!" I sure hope that person is being facetious, because I sure don't want to share the woods with someone who truly REVELS in an animal's death struggles.