Would you shoot Buttons???

[Gatehouse]

In some countries they eat dogs and I know if anyone shot my dog I'd put a bullet in their head and do my time.

Expensive dog.

Lets see.....

You kill a person and destroy his and his families lives.

You destroy your and your families life.

You spend 20 years in prison.

Lets say you make just $50 000 per year.

20yr x$50 000= $1 000 000...

Million dollar doggie. Oh, and if you are a religious type, you go to hell when you die, too.

 

[fogducker]

i,ll pack the bambi right beside the veal snitzzles in the freezer,or will it be the baby calf liver?or will it be beside the pork baby back ribs.

 

[CeeZer]

Not my gumdrop buttons!

 

[cdngunner]

this thread wont totally be revived until Woodsman chimes in..

OMG, PGKris, I have new found respect for you

 

[david doyle]

Expensive dog.

Lets see.....

You kill a person and destroy his and his families lives.

You destroy your and your families life.

You spend 20 years in prison.

Lets say you make just $50 000 per year.

20yr x$50 000= $1 000 000...

Million dollar doggie. Oh, and if you are a religious type, you go to hell when you die, too.

Thanks gatehouse for putting the dog love in perspective

 

[44fordy]

WTF is that???

Is that a deer supporting the ### pride movement? Or is it someone's pet deer?

You can't mess with wildlife like that. That's a nono.

Would I shoot buttons? hmm....hard to say. If it was nearing the end of the season and there was nothing hanging....chances are good.

I'd take those silly wrappers off his antlers before I hang him. Maybe I'd send the colorful wrappers to the family and let them know that Buttons would have been better camoflauged without the Christmas colors.

Wasn't there a movement years ago in the U.S. whereas a bunch of animal rights folks managed to get florescent orange paint all over a bunch of deer. (In hope that all us hunters wouldn't shoot them as we would "think" they are other hunters? And then all but a few got taken??

 

[Mumptia]

Which is illegal and in my mind, immoral. .

Bingo. They were albeit innocent (in nieve way) according to the story of button, but buttons is fair game.

My son shot a buttons this year as his first deer and it will be a memory he has forever. I'm refusing to rack hunt with him. He can do that when he turns 18 and can go on his own. Management hunting is as important if not more than trophy hunting. Both manage the herd, but shooting too many trophies out of an area reduces the breeder population anmd we've all had years where the deer just don't seem as plentiful as others.

 

[44fordy]

I don't hunt for trophies, although I love to have a big animal. Regardless it won't restrict what I shoot when it walks out in front of me.

I don't hunt for management or conservation. Sure, I can appreciate how animal populations are, but that is definately not the basis of my hunts personally.

I hunt for me, and I don't necessarily know how to explain it. But I do it, and not much could stop me from it.

If Buttons is someone's pet, than it should be contained. If it runs in the wild, it is a wild animal after all, someone WILL shoot it.

 

[Mumptia]

It might be some day if you find the magic field and hunt it every year and end up havingto share it with other hunters. A few years a go I had a great field with soem nice bucks on it. A dad and his hunting family shot most of the buck on that field and it dried up for a few years. He was well within his rights to take all of the deer that he did, but he ruined the fun for a few years because he didn't understand a little conservation goes a long way.[/COLOR]

I hunt for me, and I don't necessarily know how to explain it. But I do it, and not much could stop me from it.

I know exactly what you mean. Things have changed for me now that my son has become my deer hunting buddy. Its the resonsibility of the experienced to mentor all methods and forms of hunting whether it be trophy or management hunting, truck or spot and stalk hunting.


If Buttons is someone's pet, than it should be contained. If it runs in the wild, it is a wild animal after all, someone WILL shoot it

That is the point. It is a wild animal so it should not be a pet and its illegal anyway. No matter how heartless it may seem, the parents need a good talking to about leaving the wild in the wild.

Man I suck at editing threads.

 

[PGKris]

Kill me now for being some kind of newbie thread-resurrecter

 

[44fordy]

[I know exactly what you mean. Things have changed for me now that my son has become my deer hunting buddy. Its the resonsibility of the experienced to mentor all methods and forms of hunting whether it be trophy or management hunting, truck or spot and stalk hunting.

That's great Mumptia!

I never had a chance to hunt with my dad. He got out of it for many years, and then decided to get back into it so he could hunt with me. Unfortunately he passed before we got out together.
My son is 2.5 now, and I can't wait to take him out. My daughter comes out with me, she's 7 and has been coming on bird/duck hunts since she was 3 or 4. Although she's still too young to hunt, I teach her well. She has a great respect for nature, and a firm grasp on understanding why we do it. AND, she has quite the stomach for watching game being cleaned! Heck, she wants to know which parts are what.
And at the dinner table, she's happiest!