Just like any other sport, the more you do it and learn it, the more you will probably like it. I did some rabbit hunting with a beagle that was really fun, and they taste great. I did some trapping, but I never got good at that. I did some deer hunting, but I never shot a deer. Being from NY, I am sure you can imagine the serenity of being out in the woods alone, watching the sun come up. Being quiet, and totally soaking up the natural surroundings (like many environmentalists ever did that). I really don't want to kill a deer either, or hunt anymore. But it was a mainstay in the USA, and the tradition alone is worth doing. It also, I guess, with the help of the DNR, does control wild life population to mesh with human population. When all is quiet, you can see your breath as the sun breaks over the horizon a bit--then you hear that CRASH-CRASH CRASH of breaking twigs behind you from that deer who smelled you (not experienced to put the blind down wind from the deer runway--the next time just got more fun) and was smarter than you that day--I tell ya--your heart skips a beat or two. I never shot a deer--but that alone was quite a fantastic experience.
Now--hunting something that can hunt you back--like bear--has got to be a sport.
Believe me NY sir---if you had to hunt--you would. I can imagine most famlies in Alaska have fresh meat in one or two chest freezers year round. In Michigan--I knew families who shot deer any time--season or not--to keep the freezer up with meat. Ya got it right--we don't all live in a city. I don't see why parking is not free, and why there are so many bums on the street asking me for money. Why is that guy washing my windshield? Why is that man hanging out in the shadows of the alley? That is the kind of stuff that is strange to me.
Don't you think abortion would have been the easy way out? It would have side-stepped a lot of controversy. But as Christian conservatives, they stand by their principles. If you don't find that admirable, you're an idiot.
