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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 115360" data-source="post: 2084510"><p>See, that's the problem with conversations about morality, it is 100% subjective. What you find immoral other people will not and vice versa. It doesn't make anyone correct, and if you aren't doing anything illegal, then you shouldn't subject yourself to guilt based on someone else's individual morality. I used to walk around wondering how other people perceived me and how they viewed my actions. I can tell you truly that I don't tread on anyone, and I don't depend on anyone. I care about the moral judgment of very few people, especially as it relates to hunting. From 1989 to about 1999 I averaged about 50 whitetail deer a year. Now, these days I kill 10-20 a year, because I'm not feeding as many people and it is far from a neccessity for my family, but we really enjoy it. I've seen about every scenario surrounding the killing of a deer that you can imagine, and if I've learned anything it is that you can do everything correctly and still end up making a mess of it. Too many variables exist to pretend that you will ever be in a perfect situation to kill an animal. I mean, I guess if you have a feeder sitting 20' from a stand with nothing between you, you probably don't have too many variables to worry about. That's the most boring way to hunt that I'm aware of, and the results would be unrewarding to me. I hunt national Forrests and wildlife management areas by choice. I went to the mountains in East TN in November and December to hunt in an area that I'd never laid eyes on, in a terrain that I had zero experience with and killed a mountain monster at 3,500ft elevation on the side of a mountain that you can't stand on. I was still hunting and shot offhand at 225y with a split second to make the shot before I would never see him again. He wasn't still, I didn't have a rest, there may have been some limbs between us, and I was breathing pretty hard. I took the shot, hit him perfectly and killed the best buck of my life. Now, I could have stood there contemplating the morality of that shot, or taken a risk. I'll take the risks. I may not take them the way I did 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, but I will always take risks. If hunting ever became so sanitized that there wasn't a degree of risk involved, I'd probably take up shuffle board, or whatever the kids are into these days..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 115360, post: 2084510"] See, that's the problem with conversations about morality, it is 100% subjective. What you find immoral other people will not and vice versa. It doesn't make anyone correct, and if you aren't doing anything illegal, then you shouldn't subject yourself to guilt based on someone else's individual morality. I used to walk around wondering how other people perceived me and how they viewed my actions. I can tell you truly that I don't tread on anyone, and I don't depend on anyone. I care about the moral judgment of very few people, especially as it relates to hunting. From 1989 to about 1999 I averaged about 50 whitetail deer a year. Now, these days I kill 10-20 a year, because I'm not feeding as many people and it is far from a neccessity for my family, but we really enjoy it. I've seen about every scenario surrounding the killing of a deer that you can imagine, and if I've learned anything it is that you can do everything correctly and still end up making a mess of it. Too many variables exist to pretend that you will ever be in a perfect situation to kill an animal. I mean, I guess if you have a feeder sitting 20' from a stand with nothing between you, you probably don't have too many variables to worry about. That's the most boring way to hunt that I'm aware of, and the results would be unrewarding to me. I hunt national Forrests and wildlife management areas by choice. I went to the mountains in East TN in November and December to hunt in an area that I'd never laid eyes on, in a terrain that I had zero experience with and killed a mountain monster at 3,500ft elevation on the side of a mountain that you can't stand on. I was still hunting and shot offhand at 225y with a split second to make the shot before I would never see him again. He wasn't still, I didn't have a rest, there may have been some limbs between us, and I was breathing pretty hard. I took the shot, hit him perfectly and killed the best buck of my life. Now, I could have stood there contemplating the morality of that shot, or taken a risk. I'll take the risks. I may not take them the way I did 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, but I will always take risks. If hunting ever became so sanitized that there wasn't a degree of risk involved, I'd probably take up shuffle board, or whatever the kids are into these days.. [/QUOTE]
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