Originally posted by Pit Chick
Well in the wild it's survival of the fitest and if they aren't fit enough, they won't survive and I don't see any hunters going after the sickly starving deers to put them out of their missery, they go for the "trophy bucks". I don't have a problem with people hunting for food, it's actually more humane than a slaughter house. But how many hunters eat coyotes, foxes, mountain lions, or bears after they kill them?
Please don't throw all hunters into the "trophy buck" category. You don't see any hunters going after any sickly deer- you don't even hunt, so of course you wouldn't see what hunters do. I get really sensitive when I'm included in that group. I do not go for the biggest buck in the woods. A LOT of hunters do take down "cripples" when they run across them so they do not reproduce and pass on their bad genetics and mess up the population- it's called deer management. Personally, our large hunting group as taken a lot of sick deer that we've come across. The DNR in Wisconsin also came up with a new plan called "Earn a Buck" where you have to shoot a doe before you can shoot a buck- this is another method of deer management which benefits the deer more so than the hunters.

Real hunting is incredibly hard, it's not made for everyone. Going on a game farm to get a supplement fed "fake" animal, only caring about the size of the horns- that is not hunting- and should not be viewed as hunting, because it makes REAL hunters look bad and gives hunting a bad image.

(Oh- bear is really good by the way. Especially bear jerky! Way better than beef. I've tried coyote before, it was pretty good, but bear is better.)