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POLL: Any Hunters?

Discussion in 'Colosseum' started by Kitrax, Oct 29, 2005.

  1. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    So it's hunting season. This year, I'm not going due to lack of money, lack of people to go with, and lack of a hunting license.

    But are there any other hunters other there? (Yes, "Bunny Blasting" counts too!) :rolling:

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    Poll Results: Any Hunters? (23 votes.)

    Do you hunt? (Choose 1)
    * Yes! I hunt when and where I can. - 4% (1)
    * Yes, but I rarely do anymore. - 17% (4)
    * No. - 48% (11)
    * No! That's too cruel! - 26% (6)
    * We aren't allowed to have guns where I live. - 0% (0)
    * Just the results for me. (not recomended) - 4% (1)
     
  2. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    No. I have never even seen a gun in real life and I don't know anyone who owns one, so going hunting would be a wee bit tricky for me, unless I decided to take on a stag armed with a sharpened twig or something.
     
  3. Felinoid

    Felinoid Who did the what now?

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    I used to be a part of the "That's too cruel!" crowd, but I dropped it to have a better relationship with my father (who hunts religiously). But the whole thing seems unfair; the closest the animals can come to winning is managing not to die. Get yourself a sword and THEN we'll see who wins. :evil:
     
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    I have never hunted for game animals - deer, elk, pheasant, etc. Could never afford the license fee or the weaponry, unless you count hitting things with a car. ;) I used to fish quite a bit in my early 20s and didn't mind that except for consistantly catching turtles.
     
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    I like the hunting season, Tottenham fans are such easy prey. Unlike those jumpy African deers and stuff, they actually come charging towards you. Someone should teach them how to survive in this cruel cruel environment. :shake:
     
  6. Undertaker Gems: 27/31
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    I don't like the idea of hunting a helpless animal for sport.
     
  7. DarkStrider

    DarkStrider I've seen the future and it has seen me Distinguished Member

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    When I'm in South Africa I hunt what I'm allowed on my license. I use a crossbow or rifle and the game I kill (2 or 3 antelope usually) is frozen to go home or turned into biltong (similar to jerky, dry-cured meat) again for the home. The hunts are organised as part of a cull not really for sport.

    Oh and always some of the meat etc is left for the animals (lion, leopard, hyena, vulture etc)
     
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    Yeah, i kinda agree with Fel here, if you go hunting for the poor extincionthreathened (that's not the right word eh?) wolves to save your sheep, don't go in by chopper, go at them with a knife! :evil:
     
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    Closest thing i've done is shooting plastic bottles with air gun. :rolleyes:
     
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    "Look at me, I'm super hunter cause I shot a rabbit with my hunting AK-47 from 1000 feet distance." :rolleyes:
    There is no glory in killing an animal if you have a long distance gun. Try hunting with bow or a knife and try to kill a boar.
    I really hate hunting for sport. And not many hunts because they need meat.
     
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    While I enjoy shooting stuff, that stuff better not be anything living. I'm a vegetarian, and it would be hypocritical of me to hunt animals.

    Target shooting, however, is great fun.
     
  12. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Hunting is barbaric.
     
  13. Taluntain

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    [​IMG] Ok, let's leave moral judgements on hunting for AoDA, if anyone cares to open a thread about it there.
     
  14. Arabwel

    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    I don't hunt, but, oh, just about everyone around me does. If I weren't so lazy, I just might, too... since I hhave various uncles/friends/et cetera whose guns I could use if I got a license and so on.

    But quite frankly, I am too lazy. I just use puppydog eyes on them, and my freezer is stocked with game anyway. :yum:
     
  15. Morgoroth

    Morgoroth Just because I happen to have tentacles, it doesn'

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    I have nothing against hunting in general and it's a cultural thing around here, I know plenty of people who hunt, but it's just not my thing. I'm the urban kind of guy who likes to keep himself away from the bugs and other nasty stuff in the woods as long as possible. ;)
     
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    No, hunting isn't my thing. [snip]

    [On the subject of pissing, you piss me off with crap like that. -Tal]

    [ October 31, 2005, 02:50: Message edited by: Taluntain ]
     
  17. Nakia

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    I don't hunt but I come from a hunting family. It was theoretically for food but I think sport was enjoyed. I learned to shoot a rifle at a tender age. I have no qualms about eating what some one else has hunted.

    I do think hunting with modern weapons is unfair and I don't see the sport in it. My grandfather hunted with a one shot rifle. Can't remember what caliber. I couldn't use it that I know.

    I do like to fish. Trout is delicious.

    By the way, Undertaker, if you hunt boar with a knife you will be needing an undertaker. :( :p
     
  18. Morgoroth

    Morgoroth Just because I happen to have tentacles, it doesn'

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    Hahaa! This reminds me so perfectly of campaign of d&d. A local lord sent us to hunt a boar with daggers and clubs. The boar actually killed one of our party injured a few before DM intervention. So let that be a warning to all of you, hunting boars with daggers is not recommended. :lol:
     
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    lol, yea...dumb pigs... :p

    anyways i just wanted to comment that people who think hunting is cruel but eat beef should be banished to life in the sewers.
    oh and for all those hunters out there, Good Luck
     
  20. Felinoid

    Felinoid Who did the what now?

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    You must really suck at hunting if you're resorting to shooting cows. :rolleyes: And for the record, hunting isn't cruel (maybe death and nature, but that's an entirely different subject), it's just a bit unfair...in about the same way that a person stepping on a spider is unfair.
     
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