Jim to each his own...we were talking about actual hunting not prairie dog shooting.
About the 15th time I read 'Meditations on Hunting' by Gasset my brain has been scrambled.
What I was saying was hunting to me is more about the chase than the actual kill and I agree with Gasset a hunter should get no enjoyment from the kill it's just the end result of the hunt...and 'no' I don't hunt with a camera.
Call it enjoyment if you like.
Well, the post I responded to didn't make much sense and this one quoted above doesn't either. You seem to have a problem with the word enjoyment. Hunting to you "is more about the chase than the actual kill". Doesn't that mean the chase gives you enjoyment? Why on earth do you equate hunting with assassinating PEOPLE??
To take it to extremes as silly as your posts on this, how do you have any idea what is most enjoyable to an assassin? Maybe the assassin enjoys the chase as much or more than the actual kill? Maybe he/she doesn't even enjoy the kill itself, just as many hunters also do not.
As far as I'm concerned, if we could have shoot and release in hunting, as we do catch and release, in fishing, I'd be happy to do it that way
This thread WAS about .410s, not some PC nonsense about what hunting means to you, me or any of us.
