Originally Posted by Turkey_neck
Originally Posted by Smells
??? What's to deal with? I left him where he was. He was gone in a couple of days.

I'm on board with the predator control thing but if I decide to kill something I want it dead. I have no desire to watch anything suffer needlessly. If I kill something I have to have a reason for doing it.

When I was a kid I had a Crossman pellet rifle. I didn't shoot song birds because I was told not to. I was down by the creek one day and wondered if I could hit a minnow swimming around. I did just to see if I could and afterward felt terrible. Left me with no desire for hunting or killing anything well up into my adult life. I probably never would have hunted were it not for my kids. About 6 years ago, they both were after me all year long to go hunting. It really caught me off guard and I resisted. It's kind of a long story which I won't bore you with but eventually I relented and now it's really all I want to do with my free time. I have no problem killing but I just don't see the need to let any creature suffer more than is necessary. I wounded 2 bucks this year and 1 the year before and when I think about it, it still gnaws at me.

If I decide to kill it I want it dead.

Trust me I made up for everything you didn’t kill as a kid plus probably 10-20 more people.

Haha i was thinking hed prob think i was a psycho with as much crap i killed..my 4 yr old finishes off the doves on shoot day with his bb gun...but i do agree i dont like em to suffer

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin