What do you support?

Do you support trophy only hunts?

  • Of Course!

    Votes: 39 25.7%

  • Hell No!

    Votes: 109 71.7%

  • I don't hunt just shoot targets!

    Votes: 4 2.6%
  • Total voters
    152
Beritel said:
I'll definitely keep my eyes open for it. Is it available in any book store, or is it distributed elsewhere? Congrats on being published! :)
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It is in pretty well all magazine stores, as far as I know.
I got a phone call the other day from a fellow in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, who got it in a magazine store. I am in BC, but the magazine is printed in Texas.
 
I support EVERY type of legal hunting & shooting sport. To let any of our fellow sportsmen & women "fend for themselves" is wrong IMHO.

Cheers
Jay
 
H4831 said:
I voted, "of course," but the pole is so incomplete. It has only been about the last twenty years that it has been compulsory to take out the edible meat, here in BC. There are so many variations.
A large bull moose shot before about the first week in September is absolutely choice meat. Especially the large northern variety from northern BC and the Yukon, or actually from any cold area with short summers and long winters. It would be a shame to leave such meat in the bush, if anyone, whatsoever, could use it.
But what about those huge mule deer bucks, shot in November? Hunters will have their pictures taken with the great antlers, then make sure they tell the world they are taking out all the meat. Then what happens? Very little, or any of it, will be eaten. In BC, it is compulsory to take the meat to----or a place of consumption. End of the story. Do what you want. Thus, it will likely be deposited off of some little used bush road. This is actually good, because there are many of natures creatures out there that will feed on it, putting on some much needed fat for winter. But why wouldn't it be completely ethical to leave such strong smelling meat, the type your dog will shy away from, right where it fell, for the creatures of nature at that spot?
Here is the way I see it. Wild game, in any juridiction, is manged so as to keep the supply as stable as possible, and to keep the game population at a level that the habitat can sustain. Thus, hunting is very strictly regulated. Tags are issued on a basis, estimating the percentage of hunters that will actually shoot an animal, that will sustain the game population.
So, I go to the hunting fields with the right to shoot said animal. That is my tag, no one elses and any animal I legally shoot is my animal. It's not yours and you are not going to get it, unless I give it to you. I will cancel my tag upon shooting it, so I can not legally shoot another. Therefore, what does it matter to you, or to the game officials, what I do with my animal?
In real life, if I didn't want the meat, I would contact any hunter in the area I saw and offer it to to him/them. Beyond that, why should I be considered unethical, or committing an illegal act, by leaving the meat for a bunch of hungry creatures to eat?
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I can respect that, you do make a point that even if you leave the meat, it isn't truly being "wasted" as scavenger animals do benefit.

But for me personally I have a real hard time even thinking about taking an animal and leave the meat (except for pest and varmint animals- coyote, wolf, varmint rodents, etc)

Even if the deer meat isn't very good it would still make a decent sausage or pepperoni.

In BC yes by law you have to take all of the meat or give it to someone else, which I have no problem with, but I respect your view though and you do make a good point.

For me though i'm happy to take the meat or give it to someone that would appreciate it. right now there isn't anything I hunt that I don't intend to get the meat from.
 
If you have ever passed a doe or bamby you are a trophy hunter. we all select our game. We try for drakes & not hens,bucks & not does. Even in areas of too many does many still want a buck only. It is not up to anyone else to say what legal animal you should shoot. That is why we HUNT & not take the first thing to come along. Trophy is the reason for Africa,Alaska, etc, hunts. I personally like a dry doe or a spike, that is again my choice & I don't want to be criticized for it AJ
 
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I have no problem with being referred to as a trophy hunter, although in truth I am neither a trophy hunter or a meat hunter, I hunt solely for the joy of hunting. When we went to Africa the trophies came home and are an important reminder of that experience. The meat was used in a number or ways; we ate some, we shared it with the camp help, but much was used for bait. Meat that was left on the ground or in a tree to entice big cats did not disturb me.

In the North American context, some seem to equate being a trophy hunter as akin to being a child molester. This is an unfortunate division in an already much divided community, and one that is under attack from many quarters.

When a trophy animal is taken, if the meat is left behind it is no different than had that animal died of old age, disease, or predation. As such this meat is a food source to those animals that typically feed on carrion. If the meat is taken home, found to be unpalatable, and dropped off in a land fill; then it benefits nothing and is truly wasted.

There is an argument to be made that trophy hunting is less damaging to a herd than is meat hunting. True trophies are normally taken near the end of their lives. Thus, they are the most difficult to hunt, first because they have survived the odds and are experienced, and secondly because you are now hunting a specific animal, and not shooting the first one seen. Again typically, trophies are non-breeding and are no longer a benefit to the herd, although this applies more to herd animals than others.
 
Sorry man this is a very poorly laid out post. I read the question and voted for, but of course so not agree with the leaving meat to spoil garbage. You need to be more clear with the initial poll, for I assume that all of the people that voted for had the same misconception as I. If this happens to get used by some anti-troll outside of CGN, you will have yourself to blame. Please lay these things out with more thought in the future for all of our sakes please.

I believed it was concerning hunting with the purpose of only harvesting trophy quality animals, which is fine with me, but I do not condone wasting fine meat.
 
Of course. I won't bring any of the meat home from a hunt in Africa but it will get eaten by someone. With regard to wolf, coyote, cougar etc, no, I won't eat it but the skull and hide will come home with me.

Poll could have been clearer.
 
grijim said:
Don't believe in trophy hunting or the a_ _ holes that take part in it.

Grijim
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You can believe in it - trophy hunting is very real. It's one thing not to be interested in it, but entirely another to be ignorant about it.

I don't like basketball, but I'm not such a Fudd that I can't allow other people to partake without resorting to juvenile name-calling.

Remember, we're all in this together. United we stand.
 
H4831 said:
You don't have to tell me how the meat hunters of 75 or 80 years ago operated. You could get a copy of the Back Woodsman Magaxine, now on the shelves, and see my version in the article I wrote in the May-June issue on that subject.
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You should know Boss, 'cuz you was there! :D
 
With the exception of varmints/predator control...



You can buy your equipment, your ammo and your tags all you want but there's a responsibility that comes with HARVESTING an animal. That's why it's engrained as law in some provinces. Use the meat or give it to someone else. Bring it home and at least make the attempt to eat it. Why waste something's life in order to entertain yourself or feed your ego?

The notion that it's no different than an animal dying from old age/disease is absurd. You're talking about taking a healthy animal out of the population so you can get a set of antlers... give me a break. Yes the animal might be older but how do YOU know it's not breeding? How do you know it doesn't have a role to play with it's herd. I'm all for letting nature take it's course and part of that is humans killing to survive. When you start killing for fun...you become unnatural.

I'm all for hunting but trying to justify it by saying the vultures will eat it is laughable, the vultures get enough food from the animals that die naturally in the forest and the gut piles we leave they don't need your help.
 
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