What are your feelings on hunting to kill and nothing more? Do you only shoot what you will eat? What about nuisance animals? Just wondering because of another debate going on in the migratory section.

Hogs are like cockroaches. Can't kill enough of them and I could care less what you do with the bodies.

I shoot varmints and ain't planning I eating them, some make it to the taxi of that makes it better, I kill snakes not eating them either. Prairie dogs and wont even touch them.

I can honestly say I don't kill anything just to kill it. There is a purpose behind everything I kill.

The only things I kill now though are the occasional deer and hogs. Coyotes, bobcats, coons, possums, etc, they all get a pass from me unless it's in a HF and I'll shoot the predators

I hunt to kill. Usually pigs, but I guess there are other motives as well. Workin on MLD land, I can hunt to kill. Trying to get the numbers down, so it's more than just hunting.

Hogs and nuisance varmints I have no problem shooting them and leaving them lay.

I think Dustin doesn't shoot Rodents because they resemble paint cans. Theyre. Very difficult to tell apart. I shoot skunks coons and yotes for the fun of it. Oh and the occasional dillo. I also shoot ducks for the fun of it but I do eat the meat.

I shoot as many pigs as possible. I leave em were they drop unless its under a feeder and then they just get drug off. I used to hunt rabbits like crazy but haven't seen many in recent yrs. We used to be able to get 30-40 jackrabbits a night out of the wheat fields.

I shoot stray dogs on my land because they don't belong there. I don't typically shoot coyotes, bobcats,coons,etc. Nature works. No need in me pretending to be a wildlife manager and culling animals. However, if I see a sick looking yote, I will put it down.

Other than that, I eat what I kill.

I mostly hunt predators and keep some skins and all the skulls. I dont hunt many game animals because of all the rules. Skunks are the only varmints that get a pass.

I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Classic!

TOO MUCH!!!

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Used to hunt to kill! Now I hunt with camera & gun & put a couple in the freezer & take pictures of everything else. A friend told me it's 'cause I ain't mad at the deer anymore. Depends on mood I'm in!

Last week I put out a coon trap at a feeder, caught one and took him down the road & turned him loose. Coulda shot him, but what the heck - Chalk it up to Christmas....

I just about p**ed myself when I read that.

yep me too and only if the land owner says to kill them

Hogs are shot on sight. Some are kept, others aren't. If 'yote sightings get to be too frequent then they get thinned out as well. Same with other varmints...if their numbers get so high that they've become a nuisance, they get shot.

I hunt for big bucks. I like big antlers. But I consume every ounce of meat from the deer I take.

The only thing I will hunt to kill are pigs and varmits

i absolutely will not shoot anything i dont plan on eating. Seems like a waste to me. Dont need the bad karma.

I wont shoot a deer just to kill something

Nope.

if i aint eating it then i aint gonna shoot it. My personal opinion is that it is sinful and gives ammo for peta people. If you are going to donate or give away the meat then thats great, but I can't kill something for no purpose other than a thrill. jmo