Go for a bike ride.

I live in rural eastern Ontario and we're currrently in the two weeks of deer hunting which is a huge thing in this area. I HATE THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. This means I can't run with my dog on the conservation trails in fear of a stray bullet or some idiot hunting where they shouldn't be.

Am I missing something. These bozos look forward to this all year so they can have a week or two away from their wives and do some "male bonding" getting drunk, sleeping in a tiny cabin, farting/snoring, not taking a shower and shooting at anything that has fur. Bag a mouse if you can't find a deer.

Every year we lose a few hunters - either by accidental shooting, heart attack or they get lost in the woods and die of over exposure.

Don't even go there - deer hunters are f*cking morons IMHO. I just don't understand what the attraction is about the manly art of shooting defenseless animals.

Go for a bike ride.

I live in rural eastern Ontario and we're currrently in the two weeks of deer hunting which is a huge thing in this area. I HATE THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. This means I can't run with my dog on the conservation trails in fear of a stray bullet or some idiot hunting where they shouldn't be.

Am I missing something. These bozos look forward to this all year so they can have a week or two away from their wives and do some "male bonding" getting drunk, sleeping in a tiny cabin, farting/snoring, not taking a shower and shooting at anything that has fur. Bag a mouse if you can't find a deer.

Every year we lose a few hunters - either by accidental shooting, heart attack or they get lost in the woods and die of over exposure.

Don't even go there - deer hunters are f*cking morons IMHO. I just don't understand what the attraction is about the manly art of shooting defenseless animals.

Hunting deer is NOT easy, at least with a bow. Its easier to "sneak up" on a deer from 100yrds away, not so easy at 20 yrds. My vote is to hunt, the season is only a few weeks long and you can still train after dark inside. Go get em'

I guess we just disagree. Anyway, not doing something because its easy is a dumb reason to stop doing it. I don't find running difficult, been doing it since I was a kid, but I keep doing it. Same with biking and reading for that matter. I continue to do them because I enjoy the activity.

If your argument is that you choose not to hunt anymore because you lost the desire, then good enough. I doubt you quit because it was easy. Boring maybe, but not easy.

kill a fucking deer, they are useless tu us unless you eat them. fuck the deer

hgrong... try out turkey hunting, with a handgun.

While recognizing that there is merit to your other arguments, I have to take issue with this.

As background, yes, I have hunted deer many times in many different parts of the country. Where I grew up, it was expected that young men hunted, so I did. I gave it up many years ago, however.

I stopped because I realized that there is nothing sporting about it. There is very little skill involved; there is no challenge to it. People talk about the "thrill of the hunt." But the way that most deer hunting is done these days, there is no hunt per se. For the most part, it involves walking into the woods before dark, climbing into a tree stand, sitting as still as possible, and waiting for a deer to walk within 100 yards (or more depending on the terrain). The fact that the "success rate" is so low does not reflect the difficulty of hunting so much as deer just don't walk by all that often.

I shot deer when I was 13. I had no skill. It was not a test of wits between me and the wild. I sat quietly in a tree until a buck walked by. I raised my .308, sighted, and pulled the trigger. The deer died on the spot. It was no different that fish in a barrel other than it required a mediocre tolerance for boredom.

This is all just a circuitous way of saying that hunting deer IS easy.

I like the idea that the deer meat that i eat is free of growth hormone and steroids, unlike most of the Kroger meat. The deer lives a completly natural life until I take him or her. A much more humane way for animals to live than living in a cage slightly larger than the body of a chicken of a cow that is available at the local grocery.

X2. It's as organic as you can get.