Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I will kill every one of them I can. You have to remember given their reproductive rate, to keep the population the same year to year about 70% of them have to die each year.

 

Heck no, in mich we used to take deer hit by cars to the gravel pit and call them in. And well was like fish in a barrel. Long range shots it was a blast so to say , friends got nice mounts out of it. I only did pelts. But it has to be done to save the pop of deer and turkeys !

 

It has to be done according to hard conservation data, or to justify wanting to kill them? I see a lot of responses like this, but I wonder how many have actually dug into the real numbers and cause & effect behind predator hunting and prey population correlations?

 

In general I agreed. But predators near my animals, whack!

 

Talk to a wildlife biologist in regards to this. Our county biologist (State?) lists predator management in our wildlife plan. Since starting taking fox, coyotes, bobcats and pigs our deer and turkey population has increased.

 

Predators keep balance within the herds of nature...Note the health of the overall improvement of Yellowstone since the reintroduction of wolves...Expansion and distrubatory growth in cases of CWD wasting in deer is possibly linked to effective predation of the sick and weak animals.....Lack of their most effective historical predator...The wolf....It is noted in localities where wolves thrive....Bucks are of very large proportions and CWD cases are low........

 

Coyotes and wild hogs are a problem in Tennessee. See the link for the regulations. I used to hunt and kill groundhogs when I lived in central KY. Raised on a farm, I know what damage a groundhog den can do to machinery. Plus a prize cow or horse can break a leg and have to be put down. The horse wound up as dog food. The cow wound up in the freezer. I also kill flies and spiders but don't eat them.
Hunting and Trapping Guide

 

You live within your ethics, and I'll live within mine. The neighbor lost seventeen sheep in one night from what appears to have only been a couple of coyotes. Those coyotes were not killing to eat. They were killing because the young were being trained to hunt by their mama. Those of us that attempt to raise animals for a profit are at odds with certain predators and feral hogs.

 

As we mature the need to kill becomes less and less. If you kill it you eat it. Period. End of discussion. Booking a cougar hunt over dogs......? not for me. In self defense is another story. Protecting personal property is another. In either case having a "blast" doing it is not going to happen.

 

Setting standards for others to follow is usually not a good idea--period, end of discussion.

 

I've been where you are. I got over it.

I hadn't seen a single yote in years. We had a healthy turkey flock, lots of rabbits, deer etc... When I saw what yotes did to the turkey population here and then I had 6 trail cam pics/videos of them killing and eating fawns.

I don't have time to go out and specifically target them but no matter what I'm hunting, if I see a coyote, it becomes a coyote hunt.

 

Selfies are unethical.

 

 

Ummm... told my son the same thing. Didn't want to raise a serial killer 🙃.. so yea we had yote backstraps breaded and fried.. tasted pretty good and now I have great night vision 😌... but seriously, I'm of the opinion try everything if your not willing to try it don't waste the arrow 🙂.. that being said I don't kill oppsum or skunks LOL everything else is fair game! Heck in Korea the raise dogs on the meat farms! Maybe it's just the Army in me, but racoon tastes great, coyotes went down nicely, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits.. I even heard beaver is pretty tasty if you cook it right!

 

I’m right there with you, haven’t had the chance to try everything you listed yet, but I’d be down!

 

I will not “hunt” animals that I’m not going to eat. I will kill animals that are a nuisance. Smoked a groundhog with the .17 that was tunneling under my pole barn and porch and chicken coop. If a predator is attacking my animals then it’s over for them.

 

I will not “hunt” animals that I’m not going to eat. I will kill animals that are a nuisance. Smoked a groundhog with the .17 that was tunneling under my pole barn and porch and chicken coop. If a predator is attacking my animals then it’s over for them.

I usually cut them up in chunks and cook them down for my dogs. It actually looks and smells like something that I could eat. I haven't tried it yet... I feel like it would break my dogs heart!!!!

 

Not everyone was raised like you. Some of us were raised with a different set of values and beliefs. You follow your upbringing/beliefs, I‘ll follow mine.

 

Hear the wolf population in the northern US is doing a number on the deer, turkey, moose population, hunters are seeing more wolfs than deer in a season. Managing predators is part of the cycle to keep a balanced heard, predators can wipe out a heard if not controled. If its legal im all for helping keeping predators in check.

 

Wolves strengthen the herds....Where wolf populations are over culled....Disease and imbalance on natural resources result....
This is just an excuse that anti-hunters/Anti-gunners/Anti-Bow (Especially stickbowers) use against us....They call us predators destroying the populations of hooved animals(ungulates).
Nature needs its predators...That includes us....Period...
If people eat their predator kills? To me....No problem with that at all....You are just expressing your true (Hunt, kill and eat inner predator) Not lying to yourself that you are just killing for fun and the thrill of taking the life force out of a fellow predator...As well as disrupting the predator-prey relationship in nature...

 

I am the predator. I will not compete with lesser predators. Given the opportunity, they die.

 

Meat hunter here. I'm good with whatever anyone does within the law and personal conscience.

 

You lift, bro?

 

 

Kill em. There's so many yotes its open season year round here. So many bears they want you to take 2. Part of being human and a hunter is population control. I enjoy the killing part too so if I see a yote I'm gonna shoot it. May or May not tan the hide, def not eating it. Also want a bear skin rug so again, see one I'm gonna shoot it. And enjoy it too. Bobcat mount by the fireplace would be nice as well. If I see one, I'm gonna shoot it. I'm not a hunter to only eat clean, I do it because I thoroughly enjoy it. Worms, crows, buzzards, raccoons, yotes, bears, foxes, they all gotta eat too. Doubt any one of them thinks me leaving a coyote carcass in the woods is wasteful.

Opinions are like butt holes. Everybody's got em and they all stink.

 

I think it's unethical to use steroids

 

Come on. It's not your joints, testicles, organs, and girlfriend that'll take the beating. To each their own.

Your just jealous you can't post adorbz selfies for a bunch of dudes on an archery site.

 

I'm sorry I couldn't help it. I don't give a crap if you use steroids. If my wife wasn't an account and logged every dollar I'd be on a tren cycle right meow.

Not really, but float your boat, I'll float mine.

 

 

Do you set a mouse trap if you get one in your house/garage? Do you slap mosquitos when they land on you?

I eat traditional animals. Some animals I enjoy hunting but don't like eating. I give them to other people that do like them, or going forward I may try and make trapping bait out of them so they aren't wasted.

The racoons have all but wiped out our turkeys. We had a healthy flock up until about 2019 in my area, now you hardly see any. Every **** or possum I see I am after for the time being. On the hwy, in the woods, in my traps. They need to be thinned out. I don't hate them, but they need to learn to live within their means too. The turkeys shouldn't be wiped out just because the ***** feel the need to over populate. When the turkeys bounce back I will lay off them as needed , but they have no natural predators besides man anymore and with fur prices , they don't even have that anymore.

 

Do you set a mouse trap if you get one in your house/garage? Do you slap mosquitos when they land on you?

I eat traditional animals. Some animals I enjoy hunting but don't like eating. I give them to other people that do like them, or going forward I may try and make trapping bait out of them so they aren't wasted.

The racoons have all but wiped out our turkeys. We had a healthy flock up until about 2019 in my area, now you hardly see any. Every ** or possum I see I am after for the time being. On the hwy, in the woods, in my traps. They need to be thinned out. I don't hate them, but they need to learn to live within their means too. The turkeys shouldn't be wiped out just because the *** feel the need to over populate. When the turkeys bounce back I will lay off them as needed , but they have no natural predators besides man anymore and with fur prices , they don't even have that anymore.

Raccoons are good to eat...They are a staple as far as a game animal for us southern hunters....You should try them....I
I don't have mice but mosquitos are a blood-sucking , disease vector parasites against humans.(human predator...Plus they have very little meat on them...Plus this is off topic.....
So that is a moot point....

 

Just talk to one of these cattle farmers in Colorado and ask them how coyotes, badgers, and not a predator but Prarie dogs hurt their business and cost them money.

I'm not big on killing critters as I have aged, but I have zero remorse for killing coyotes. They kill calves and other livestock, pets, even people sometimes. If they are wiley enough to stay out of the cross hairs, good on em. If they end up in front of the plus sign... nite nite

 

Would you feel the same about rats if they invaded your yard and the playground where your kids play??? Because in some places the coyotes are that bad..

 

In self defense.....Lethal force is justified against anything....
But that is not hunting....Again...Moot point....

 

I sure hope you "I don't kill it unless I eat it crowd"eat every mosquito,horse fly,fly,roach,rat,mouse,bug,spider,snake...etc.
If not, you're a hypocrite.

 

Just to clarify I will eat or try just about everything I hunt. But snake meat is pretty tasty too! 😋