This is how REAL MEN shoot animals...

[Playinghardball]

[Brigid]

1. Love the photographer's assistant.

[RebelOne]

2. That has always been my philosophy.

Shoot them with a camera instead of a gun or bow and arrow. I worked as a copy editor for a hunting and fishing publication. And many of the articles would include photos of the smiling hunters with their kill. I always wished I could wipe that smile off their faces

[Treant]

3. Dude, look to your left.

Or, how to miss the forest for the trees.

Yeah, I've done this. It's amazing, but I've shot hundreds of animals, insects, and birds. One hundred percent of the critters I shot went on with their lives, most of them none the wiser that they had been immortalized.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. And they'll serve as an even more impressive, bigger trophy in future years for future shooters.

Good on you.

[MissDeeds]

4. Aww, I love it!

K&R

[MynameisBlarney]

5. Not everyone hunts for trophies

Some folks hunt for food only.

This reminds of the "Only Real Men Love Jesus" bumper stickers that were on every other car in the south a few years ago. That shit drove me crazy.

I like Ricky Gervais, and agree with him on almost everything I've read or heard from him that is political, but this is not accurate.

[Major Nikon]

7. It's really irrelevant what they hunt for

Wildlife management relies on hunters, either natural or human, for success. While it's true that some hunting serves no useful purpose, much of it does. There are consequences for allowing certain animal populations to run amok.

[MynameisBlarney]

12. How is is irrelevant?

I think it's quite relevant to know what it is they're hunting, and how and why they're hunting it.

[Major Nikon]

15. What, yes. Why, not so much

If there's a need to cull animals for wildlife management, what the hunter does with them after they are culled isn't relevant for that goal. The end result is the same.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. All together now, kiddies: "It's BEHIND you!!!" N.T.

[MynameisBlarney]

13. :D

They're coming right for us!

[badtoworse]

9. I do not believe in killing for no reason

When I fish, I release what I'm not going to eat. I don't hunt much, but when I do, I only shoot what I plan to eat.

I do love shooting wildlife pictures, especially birds.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. And, give up on the Cheetah burgers, Rhino pies, and 3d wall decor?

[Paladin]

11. +1, from a former hunter. Wildlife looks a lot better, alive. (nt)

[dilby]

14. But tastes better dead.