Thread: STAGS SHOT 2021

Originally Posted by Stocky

What because some peoples ego can't deal with opposing veiw points?

The point of the off topic was to remove the discussion from this thread it wasn't so some one sided bitching could continue in the original thread.

The people bitching about those talking about herd management are the same as the fragile SJW that can't deal with people having an opposing opinion and throw a shit fit as they take every such opinion as a personal attack. They are also the type that claim to be meat hunters but walk past 10 hind sto shoot a young stag or even worse they promote leave the breeders... Shooting a bunch of stags is stupid inefficient population control shooting a bunch of hinds makes far more sense.. No one was attacked personally for shooting anything in this thread.

The off topic talks more about population control that it does about stags. You won't find me acting like a child about poisoning as while I dislike it as much as the next it's here to stay regardless of deer populations because I think you will find its illegal to intentionally poison deer (I'm not saying they don't potentially do it under the guise of possum control).

It's a free country you can do what you like we are all big enough and ugly enough to make our own decisions but having your head stuck so far up your ass you can't even bare to listen to an opposing veiw point makes you exactly the same as people that think hunting is wrong or that these gun laws help gun crime and will not listen to any discussion on the matter.

No ones making you do anything or even told you to do anything. Shit some pretty basic questions asked resulted in a lot of bitching from the likes of the "if I don't shoot them XYZ will get them" crowd.

Well made points Stocky. I am by nature a meat hunter and having come through the 1980's period of very low deer numbers I tend to feel guilty about shooting hinds. Now that there is an abundance of animals I need to change my thinking to target hinds, which are far superior eating anyway. I struggle with shooting hinds as the bad old days are not erased from memory.
The discussions in this thread are thought provoking and may challenge my personal views and beliefs, but hunting conditions have changed and I need to change accordingly. Even though I am a meat hunter, I leave animals with good potential because shooting them for meat is a selfish act when someone else could take that same animal as a trophy they remember for the rest of their lives.
Giving away meat, sharing the harvest, I have found, is a great release from the guilt of killing