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I'd think it a lot more manly if the hunter took the deer out with a knife or his bare hands to accomplish the feat of feeding his family.

To me, there are two kinds of hunters. In Hawaii we see alot of the kind of hunter that Deep and Tyyr talk about. We have wild pigs in our forested parts. With the cost of living so high in Hawaii, a decent number of men will go pig hunting to supplement their food. Its part of the Hawaiian culture. They go out on foot, shoot, kill, gut, and carry out the pig. This is hunting for food as it should be.

You've also got the idiots (sad to say alot of this class is the military stationed out here) who go out, get drunk, and hunt just to kill something. I've got a friend that goes pig hunting every month or two, and tells me that he finds dead pig carcasses rotting on the earth, usually with their heads cut off (trophies I suppose)

That kind of hunting does NOT strike me as manly.

GrahamKennedy wrote:I'd think it a lot more manly if the hunter took the deer out with a knife or his bare hands to accomplish the feat of feeding his family.

Thats not manly, that's stupid. Go piss of a ten point buck with a knife and see how long you last.

GrahamKennedy wrote:I'd think it a lot more manly if the hunter took the deer out with a knife or his bare hands to accomplish the feat of feeding his family.

My Grandpa used to bow hunt deer. A step closer to that, I think.

Bow hunting is better because its so much quieter.

Deepcrush wrote:Bow hunting is better because its so much quieter.

Stealth FTW.

Deepcrush wrote:
Thats not manly, that's stupid. Go piss of a ten point buck with a knife and see how long you last.

Aye there is a good reason why our ancestors used spear, bows and slings to hunt.

Because bullets were expensive?

Mark wrote:Because bullets were expensive?

*smack* Our pre-firearms ones.

Ooooohhh.....those guys

Mark wrote:Because bullets were expensive?

Have you seen the cost of arrows lately?

Deepcrush wrote:

GrahamKennedy wrote:I'd think it a lot more manly if the hunter took the deer out with a knife or his bare hands to accomplish the feat of feeding his family.

Thats not manly, that's stupid. Go piss of a ten point buck with a knife and see how long you last.

Yeah, would take quite a brave man to do that, I would think.

Vic wrote:

Mark wrote:Because bullets were expensive?

Have you seen the cost of arrows lately?

Yeah, but you can recover a fired arrow.

GrahamKennedy wrote:Yeah, would take quite a brave man to do that, I would think.

More like a stupid one.

Deer might be herbivores but a hoof to the head could snap your neck.