Same as every year, hoping not to get shot while mountain biking.

Ran across a bow hunter last week on a local trail.

Not hunting. When the animals can shoot back I'll consider it a sport.

Wearing bright orange and hoping to not get winged by a stray bullet.

Bowhunting whitetails in East Central IL! First time hunting in probably 25 years, so I am incredibly excited. Season opens next weekend.

This.

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I've been out several times for early elk archery. Alas, my freezer is still empty.

To those non-hunters here making snarky comments on this thread, properly dressed and butchered wild game is absolutely the best meat one can eat.

Delicious, naturally lean, free-range, grass-fed, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, non-GMO, etc.

And, that wild deer or elk lived a far better life than a feed lot cow, pig, or chicken.

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"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."

So you're a vegan?

Bright Orange does shit for shooting in Chicago

That sounds great , I have never done any bow hunting.

Bright orange perfectly matches the Aspen trees in CO in Oct. It’s perfect camo at the time of year hunters are out.

You are correct sir.

Wildlife has to be managed.

And the wonderful catch and release program.

I am hoping to go exterminate lots of wolves.



We have way too many "unnecessary species" on this planet.

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Grass fed/free range only here. Granddaughter of a rancher and butcher shop owner. Meat came from the side of beef in the freezer, not the grocery store. I don't eat game.

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Fruitarian

Some good points.

Serious question: you're not concerned about consuming meat from an elk with contagious CWD (chronic wasting disease) ?

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CWD has not been detected in the areas that I hunt. It has been found in some Idaho hunt units, and I'd have to think twice about harvesting game from those areas. The state of Idaho, for all its other problems, actually does an excellent job at wildlife (game) management.

https://idfg.idaho.gov/

[ETA: now bracing for your inevitable comment about Idaho and wolves...]

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"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."

I'll be fishing on October 1st if the weather is nice. That's kind of like hunting.

So far the forecast looks unseasonably warm.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Umm, not entirely.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...-wolves-to-be-killed
https://www.npr.org/...-90-of-states-wolves

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My edit beat your post (and foretold it perfectly).

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"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."

Why are Idahoans so excited about killing so many wolves? It puzzles me a lot. Do they eat them?

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I might go over to the range this weekend and make some clay pigeons into dust. The wife has picked it up remarkably quickly.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Gun deer in New Hampshire.

More deer where I live (Massachusetts). But finding a place to hunt can be hard; when you do, it’s tight quarters; and whole state is shotgun only.

I prefer to be able to walk for miles without bumping into people if I want, and/or set up for a long-ish shooting alley with the .308 if that’s what feels right that day. Those elements of the experience make it feel like it did growing up hunting with my dad and brothers, and is more important to me than bringing home a deer at the end of the day.