Mount Sweetness
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Ontario
Big adrealine rush when the animal is found...much relief that the animal was recovered and did not suffer
Killing ... how do you feel ...
- Thread starter Otokiak
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I find my reaction depends on the game. I honestly respect and appreciate the beauty of the animals I hunt. I hunt grouse over my dog so the kill is not necessarily the goal. I love to watch my dog work. You see the bird flush, follow, lead, squeeze the trigger, hear the report, watch the fall, release the dog, delivery to hand. Does the heart good. But even after getting so many grouse i'll look at the feathers and admire them.
I get a few geese or ducks, i enjoy watching Tikka retrieve...high fives all around. lol
When I got my doe last year I couldn't get my heart to stop pounding. Kept thinking "did I get her? Did I miss?" It was a lung shot, we tracked and found her bedding down. She was big and beautiful. I wouldn't let her suffer and bleed to death. I shot her in the head. Made for a grizzly picture after. I was happy about the whole ordeal. I probably said a prayer to my self wishing her well. I don't remember. I'm not religious, but I do consider myself to be spiritual.
I get a few geese or ducks, i enjoy watching Tikka retrieve...high fives all around. lol
When I got my doe last year I couldn't get my heart to stop pounding. Kept thinking "did I get her? Did I miss?" It was a lung shot, we tracked and found her bedding down. She was big and beautiful. I wouldn't let her suffer and bleed to death. I shot her in the head. Made for a grizzly picture after. I was happy about the whole ordeal. I probably said a prayer to my self wishing her well. I don't remember. I'm not religious, but I do consider myself to be spiritual.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
I've never been one to express with 'High fives' etc. on big game in particular. While often I have been happy with the results, I've also felt a touch of sadness and remorse for tha animal as well.
It appears we may have something in common. Here's my Tikka
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You should have grab her antlers and shoved her head in the ground and stuck a knife in her at the back of her head where it meets her neck ... no ugly mess afterwards!
Interesting responses ... thank you for those my fellow CGNer's. HAPPY HUNTING!
Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
You should have grab her antlers and shoved her head in the ground and stuck a knife in her at the back of her head where it meets her neck ... no ugly mess afterwards!
Interesting responses ... thank you for those my fellow CGNer's. HAPPY HUNTING!
Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
Thanks for the advice. Her antlers? I think you'd be hard pressed to find a whitetail doe with antlers?
I've never been one to express with 'High fives' etc. on big game in particular. While often I have been happy with the results, I've also felt a touch of sadness and remorse for tha animal as well.
It appears we may have something in common. Here's my Tikka
Awesome. Good to see other hunting dogs. Our Tikka is a Toller. When I named our girl I didn't know Tikka was a gun. I just say Tikka into a call to get a feed chuckle sound.
I'd attach a pick of her, but I don't know how.
lol
So Otokiak, how do you feel about killing.....
I'm weird, a hypocrite even. I appreciate life in all forms and realize no single life is worth any more or less then another. To me a mosquito and a horse both have equal value, both want to live and both have a right to live. However I have no problem killing certain things with extreme predjudice, but at the same time I hold other creatures to higher levels. I'm not much of a big game hunter and enjoy the smaller stuff. I like the hunt, not the kill. I look at game animals with the highest respect and I almost treasure them. However there are a few situations that I allow myself to wander from my standards. I will take a shot on any animal I have a license for if it provides me the perfect oppertunity. When I do, I feel a bit sad, a bit ashamed and a bit happy. I don't let out war whoops and thank the man upstairs for allowing me to take a creature. But again there are exceptions. Gophers, I blast them to pieces and have little remorse. But even then I don't like to see them suffer and if hit poor, I'll try to dispatch them quickly. See? Hypocrite. 
I only feel bad if the animal doesnt doesnt die quickly or worse if I dont recover it. Killing doesnt bother me, suffering does. Last year in the bow hunt I had to finish a deer with a knife and didnt feel good at all. Last year also knocked a deer down with the 30-06 and it was dead when I walked up at it 5 minues later. I felt good that the deer didnt know what hit it and was dead withing a few minutes, maybe less. I give internal thanks to the animal because I'll be eating it. This year I shot my first animal that I didnt intend to eat, a coyote during the turkey hunt, I finally got my head around shooting a dog (I like dogs) and my only regret was not using the 30-06.
leveractionjunkie
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Kamloops, BC
I'm weird, a hypocrite even. I appreciate life in all forms and realize no single life is worth any more or less then another. To me a mosquito and a horse both have equal value, both want to live and both have a right to live. However I have no problem killing certain things with extreme predjudice, but at the same time I hold other creatures to higher levels. I'm not much of a big game hunter and enjoy the smaller stuff. I like the hunt, not the kill. I look at game animals with the highest respect and I almost treasure them. However there are a few situations that I allow myself to wander from my standards. I will take a shot on any animal I have a license for if it provides me the perfect oppertunity. When I do, I feel a bit sad, a bit ashamed and a bit happy. I don't let out war whoops and thank the man upstairs for allowing me to take a creature. But again there are exceptions. Gophers, I blast them to pieces and have little remorse. But even then I don't like to see them suffer and if hit poor, I'll try to dispatch them quickly. See? Hypocrite.
My feelings are very much in line with this statement. I love hunting, but don't enjoy killing. I usually have a lot of adrenaline going at the time of the shot and can't help smiling and being happy when I am successful. I almost always take a moment to soak in the experience after I know the animal is dead, and I can't help admiring whatever it is that I have killed. I feel the same whether I've killed a deer, coyote or grouse. Can't help but feel excited, happy and sad @ the same time. I do get vocally excited when my dog makes a good flush or retrieve but other than that it's all in my head.
I grew up on a farm and there was always a sense of betrayal for me when it came time to kill something. The animal politely followed me into the shed following the bucket of oats and was killed and eaten for its obedience.
When I hunt there is none of that. The animals run for their lives and I only get the slow or the dumb ones. I provide a valuable evolutionary partner in the fitness of that species. I feel better about hunting than farming anyhow.
When I hunt there is none of that. The animals run for their lives and I only get the slow or the dumb ones. I provide a valuable evolutionary partner in the fitness of that species. I feel better about hunting than farming anyhow.
Of course you're correct, you cant kill the animal without it suffering. I want to make good shots so the animal dies quickly. I prefer the animal to be dead when I find it and not have it look at me and then have to finish it and watch and listen to it expire and gurgle with a cut throat. My hunting partner told me if you cant do it you shouldnt be hunting. I know hunting is not an exact science and kills are not immediate, especially with the bow.
There is a difference between pain for a short period of time and prolonged suffering......
