From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 16:06:29 MDT
If you do take up the bow - please! Practice - practice - PRACTICE!
Shooting a hunting bow is an art not easily mastered, whereas a firearm is
the original point and click interface...and an ethical hunter does not
want to simply injure his prey and spend hours tracking a suffering animal.
Knowledge of animal physiology is also essential.
Chuck Kuecker
At 17:07 05/02/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Many animals hunt, so if hunting is evil then nature itself is evil. I tend
>to think nature is indifferent. You should agree, I think, given that you
>wrote to me in another thread that "nature has no design."
>
>I tend to think the sport of hunting is still popular among men today
>because the thrill of the hunt strikes a deep genetic chord. Giving credence
>to this theory is the fact that few women seem to enjoy hunting, which is
>entirely predictable given that hunting was not a primary occupation of
>prehistoric women. Women like to gather, as is obvious by the modern
>proclivity many women have for shopping at the local mall :)
>
>I've thought of taking up the sport of hunting, though if I were to do so it
>would be bow-hunting. Hunting with guns seems to me to be less natural and
>less sportsman-like.
>
>-gts
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