I like to shoot animals

[DontTreadOnMe]

but I use a Canon 5D mkII. It's a more expensive hobby than guns, but it much more fun than blowing stuff up.

[loli phabay]

1. nice pic, probuably wouldnt taste nice anyway and i prefer rabbit or deer

[iamthebandfanman]

7. after having a litter trained house rabbit,

itd be like eating a cat or dog to me.... neither of which make me salivate as i can get food from anywhere and dont have to get a gun and shoot a non-aggressive animal to live.

maybe if it were the 1910s or before id think differently... luckily for me, it isnt.

[loli phabay]

8. after watching monty python you should realise that no rabbit is friendly

i can understand if you think of an animal as a pet, not wanting to eat it or its kin. just nothing better than rabbit stew on a cold winters morn..

[iamthebandfanman]

9. i dont base my understanding

of living creatures off of fictional comedy movies..
truly a fault ill have to work on.

I wish I could venture into our minds and figure out what makes someone like me different from you..
if I were starving, sure.. Id probably resort to killing animals if I had too to survive..
But I just find no joy in killing otherwise..
You can say it tastes good all you want, and thats fine... but thats a pretty selfish way of thinking (that your joy of taste is more important than the life of something).

im sure you have tons of excuses to justify the joy you get out of killing, and far be it for me to tell you what should be morally acceptable to you, but to me itll always just be killing.
my conscience just wont allow it.

to me, my life as a human being is no more important than almost any other animals.. the only the difference is I can tell you 'stop dont shoot'.
funny how we think ourselves better than other living creatures, yet never use those glorious extra abilities we have to help other creatures.

Oh, btw, making me have a visual image at the end was a nice touch...
but thanks for proving what i already knew..
hunters are assholes

oh, and before anyone tries to make some grand point about ' i bet you eat meat ' (even though im more concerned with the satisfaction of personally killing something, not the eating part) ..yes i still do, restrictively. then again, i dont go up to a cow and shoot it in the head personally either. again, i find no joy in personally killing anything. lord knows if we had to do it ourselves, i would have been vegetarian 10 years into my life. lol.

[loli phabay]

10. rofl, yes but we are well fed assholes :)

i wont even mention catching fish

[iamthebandfanman]

11. Under water the fish dont stink.

Something I learned from a lil show called 'bobbys world'.

you know, ive never been much into eating water based animals... just never found them very tasty..or visually appealing

[loli phabay]

13. my misses wont eat any sea food i guess due to her growing up without it

i love everything from the sea and rivers and much to my wifes disgust any thing that lives in the water i will try.

[PavePusher]

15. In other words, you claim a higher morality (yes, that's exactly what you did)...

because your meat is killed for you by a lowly peon.

How very noble of you.

[loli phabay]

16. i can understand why some people dont want to kill their own food, i dont hold that against anyone

for a lot of people they want to look at the steak or chicken breast and not think it used to be an animal, for others its just easier ie not a lot of freerange cows in the city, personally for me i prefer to hunt and catch and grow as much as i can as i then have that connection to my food, my kids get to see where their food comes from and how to feed themselves and its amazing how much food is out there (i just hope everybody dose3nt start or the squirrel pop will crash)

[DrDan]

30. I don't think all hunters are

definitely those that trophy-hunt are. They deserve similar treatment in the afterlife.

But those that hunt for food. . . . I can understand. Just removing the middle-men imo.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. In the old days, people didn't depend on going out with a gun to hunt for dinner.

The romantic notion of going out with a gun and coming home with dinner wasn't actually practical. Most people had traps and snares set up in strategic locations and would check them regularly.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Compendium_of_Useful_Information_for_the_Practical_Man/Traps_and_Snares

[loli phabay]

21. it depends on what teh terrain was like, at the moment i use spring kill traps for groundhogs

have some wire snares for rabbits, but i also shoot game as well. usually you take the gun with you in case a target of oppurtunity comes up. Getting food is a matter of taking advantage of oppertunity as in the last couple of weeks we collected shit loads of raspberries growing wild.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Go get some bisquick and make a cobbler.

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[loli phabay]

26. wife already did it, and added some peaches from the orchard, was good

but a man dont live on fruit alone lol got some nice beefsteak fungi soaking to eat later today and with this rain we should get some puffballs. oh and you have no idea of the amount of raspberries we got, we have around 3 acres of wild ones growing so it took nealrly a week and the whole family but we got craploads, now its freezing drying and making jams.

[RebelOne]

41. I have had rabbits as pets and they are

more intelligent than dogs and easier to litter train than cats. In fact, anyone who kills animals for sport is a sicko. The only way to shoot animals is with a camera.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. Rabbits make great pets

They're like a cross between a cat and a dog. They give kisses by licking like a dog without the bad breath. Hold them on their back and rub their ears and they go into another world where they let out little purr noises and click their teeth. They live a long time too.

[loli phabay]

29. i read this like five times before i realised you didnt write "Rabbits make great pies"

i couldnt get the connection between the title and the body of the post.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. You have a one track mind.

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Care for a mint? It's only wafer thin.

[loli phabay]

36. lol you should see me in the sex threads im even worse

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That is a stunning photo!

Allow me to invite you to come play in our Photo group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1036

I think you'd fit right in.

[Marinedem]

3. I prefer to shoot paper, myself.

I think you be surprised how much money you can sink into a good AR-15 target rifle and the associated accoutrement.

[DontTreadOnMe]

4. Seriously.. big lenses cost a lot

makes guns seems like... toys.

[loli phabay]

6. so can guns, some of the nice rifles are thousands even tens of thousands

i dont think its a game of one upmanship both hobbies can cost what you are willing to spend.

[Johnny Rico]

18. Speaking of AR-15s and their accoutrements...

http://mouseguns.com/compare.htm

Stuff you know if you have an AK: You can accessorize your rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set.
Stuff you know if you have an AR: Your rifle's accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle.
Stuff you know if you have a Mosin Nagant: Your rifle's accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but its buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.

[DrDan]

31. I thought it was an accessory

you know, like a "don't tread on me" t-shirt.

[Cooley Hurd]

38. What's the difference between an AR-15 "target" rifle and the one Holmes used?

Not being facetious, I honestly don't know.

[Kablooie]

5. And you get to take the animals home with you.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Looks like it woulda made good eatin'.

Just sayin'.

[loli phabay]

14. oh no you didnt go there. lol

[azurnoir]

17. nah meat eating birds tend to taste and smell like carrion

yuk but me I like to do both but if they're shot with a gun they are dinner, one of the lessons my kids got taught about firearms and hunting-if you shoot a living creature you'd better intend on having it for dinner

[loli phabay]

22. yup not worth the effort to soak and try to leach the flavour out.

same with birds like seagulls that live near humans.

[B Calm]

25. Frog legs taste much better. .

Just sayin'.

[loli phabay]

27. mmmmmmmmm frogs why did you do that

its like every day i come into the urban areas of virginia in one of the towns there is a pond next to the highway full of geese, ducks and frogs and i always wonder at all the food just wandering around.

[Fumesucker]

24. I have yet to encounter a hobby that can't absorb cubic megabucks..

You'd be amazed what you can spend on astronomy, radio controlled airplanes/helicopters, golf, guns, bicycles, the list is endless..

Hell, a nine year old grandniece of mine got a $300 baseball bat for her birthday the other day..

Oh, I like to shoot birds too, even ones the size of my thumb..

[orpupilofnature57]

28. Not to mention the aesthetics , education ,harmony

your shot causes ,Thank You .

[sarge43]

32. Take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but footprints

Beautiful money shot, DontThreadOnMe

[Kalidurga]

33. I bet you save a lot on art work though right?

I mean you just have to frame what you shoot.

[BlueToTheBone]

35. When you blow your subject up, we can really

see the detail. Great photo.

[Cooley Hurd]

37. You shoot tiny birds with a canon?

Next, you're gonna tell us you also use nikon-ajax missiles!

Great post - K&R!

[CrispyQ]

39. Gorgeous bird.

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

― Ellen DeGeneres

[piperpibroch]

40. I'm also a member of the 'shoot and release' program.

[Electric Monk]

42. k&r

[flamingdem]

43. ha ha I fell for it, thought you were a weirdo that kills hamsters

Lovely photo!