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ESAD

On 1/28/13 12:24 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:23:33 -0500, ESAD wrote:

Now, if you "hunt" with a still or video camera, and manage to get
really close and personal with an animal, that is a sport that usually
takes a great deal of skill to produce results.

And I no longer think fishing is a "sport," either. Isn't evolution of
thought wonderful?

I am actually more of that kind of hunter these days but I still
respect guys who hunt for food. (fish, foul or furry game)

I have no dispute with subsistence hunters/fishermen who have no other
way to put food on their tables but, then, what they are doing is not
"sport."

Probably the sort of hunting I find most disgusting is done by those
"sport" hunting guys who are far away from their prey, and use high
powered rifles and scopes to kill a "trophy" goat, sheep, moose, bear,
whatever, so they have a head to stick on their wall. There's no "sport"
in shooting an argali.

I did admire Tred Barta's skill and courage when he left his firearms at
home and went after wild boar with a knife. Still hunting, but at least
his prey had a "sporting" chance, and could have killed him.