Thread: Defending hunters

Originally Posted by Aly

I have a problem when people want to throw *all* hunters under the bus and label them "sport hunters". Those people don't want to accept there are differences. They don't think of conservation for a reason or that providing meat for people as a reason or for farmers hunting is a way of looking after their land. When I have said I go hunting, I have been called that I'm doing it for "sport". That makes no sense to me? When I think of sport hunting I do think of trophy-only hunters, of which I know none personally. But I know plenty of people who hunt as a part of their lifestyle, for learning valuable bush skills, being out in the land and providing for themselves. I can't make sense of people who want to label hunting as I know it as "sport"; if it has been the same way for tens of thousands of years, how is it sport?

Anyway all that aside the best way to defend hunters is education, pretty simple. Yet lacking in our society.

Thats exactly my point. You may decide your reasons for hunting are more valid than a trophy hunter but whatever the difference is it's very subtle and doesn't matter to either the game animal or animal rights activests so you are splitting hairs.

I hunt for sport as we all do. Nobody in this country has to hunt for sustanance so even if you eat what you shoot you are still hunting for sport because it would have been a lot cheaper, quicker and simpler to buy a duck or venison roast from the supermarket.

@Spudattack - agree with everything you have said.