I've done a bit of hiking, good fun. Nothing huge, just 20 k over nighters
I love hiking, never done more than one day but I'm hoping to do some trekking through the Amazon rainforest in the future. Did some hiking through the rainforest in costa rica, trying to catch certain species of frogs to identify them and estimate populations for conservation purposes, and I must say that climbing up tall hills covered in wet mud is the messiest, toughest and most fun I've ever had hiking. Highly recommend it if you ever get a chance, though the humidity and mosquitoes can be annoying.
To poor to head over seas. Spend to much money on guns I suppse LOL
Go to south east asia, super cheap over there and there are always good deals on flights.
getting the shot right, is also very hard with a rifle. First you need to be a competent shot, then you need to see the deer and on top of that you need be able to get a shot off. Not easy at all, a lot harder than taking a photo if you ask me.
I'd really like to know how many goats, sheep and kangaroos you see hanging from the hooks of pig hunters. Not many if any I should think. I am not too keen on hunting as a sport but I do have friends who indulge. There is certainly a need for professional culling of pigs, rabbits and foxes and as for kangaroos their numbers are beyond counting. All of the above cause a great deal of damage to our environment I'm afraid. If you plan for a vegan planet you must also acknowledge that these preditors not only affect their prey but they also would have a major impact on farming....
Ugh yeah, hunting goes with the rule take what you need and leave the rest. Otherwise you'll find yourself with nothing left to hunt. Same rules apply to everything else.
I hate in duck season you see all these guys shooting them because they just like killing things (I would call this murder actually, the mindset behind it is rather scary.) or want to stuff them for display.
Oh and I hate guns. So LOUD
No, hunters do not shoot 'because they like killing things', they shoot them as it is a skill, and it supplies you with meat. Duck tastes good. We do not hunt ducks, cause 'killing them is fun'
Just because you as a hunter kill for meat and not just because you like killing doesn't mean that there aren't hunters that do it just because they get their jollies from causing misery and pain and just leave the animal to bleed out and rot. You can NOT speak for EVERY hunter just as I can not speak for every woman or every vegan or every 20 year old etc. There are some truly cruel and twisted individuals in the world and that's just fact.
This is right Catyren there are hunters who get their 'jollies' from causing misery and pain, there are people who get their 'jollies' from sexually abusing children, there are people who get their 'jollies' from abusing their partners, there are kids who get their 'jollies' from bullying other kids and so the list goes on. But let us hope all are the minority. None of them make the other right. We can only hope to educate people in kindness and respect and hope for the best. It will never be a perfect world.
My question was for Jaime1. In my part of the world the pighunters have only pigs hanging. There would be a huge fuss if they started presenting sheep carcasses to the local box I can tell you.
It's not the animals that are the problem. It's the humans. We are the ones in plague proportions, yet we're not being culled? hypocritical is the only word for it.
"ooh the kangaroos are eating the grass kill them, kill them"
"the humans bulldozed a rainforest to build a five star resort give them awards, give them awards"
or maybe I'll get into nature, and hunt in the real world. Get your head out of your arse, you loser. Stop trying to in fringe on other sports. Yes, I said it, sport. Hunting is a sport.
It's not the animals that are the problem. It's the humans. We are the ones in plague proportions, yet we're not being culled? hypocritical is the only word for it.
"ooh the kangaroos are eating the grass kill them, kill them"
"the humans bulldozed a rainforest to build a five star resort give them awards, give them awards"
hypocrites.
The fact is, not matter how much damage I think us humans are doing to the environment (I do see a lot of daamge being done, and I don't like it. Soon their be no where for the deer to live and no where for me to hunt!) I can't got out and cull humans. However, I can go out and cull feral deer, foxes, rabbits etc. I can stop the damge being a done, and I will.
