If someone wants to donate the meat to someone else that needs it more than themselves, there is nothing wrong with that. And yes, they are still a hunter and it in no way gives hunters a bad rep. The only way it would give hunters a bad rep is if they shot a deer or something(excluding varmints) and completely wasted the meat. That would not only be unethical but it would be illegal as well.

It's pretty easy to go out and find a local farm/ranch in the area that will take the meat. Either they will or they know a farmer or ranch hand in the area that will take it. I do this every year and sometimes on request by other hunters. It doesn't cost much but your time to take to a landowner down the road. There is no need to pay to have it processed somewhere. A lot of the ranchhands do not make a lot of money and they will gladly take meat. I grew up doing that and it got me a lot of new places to varmint hunt.

i believe its called people helping people.

much better than government helping if you ask me...

Man o' man. We want to help our neighbor and were not hunters. My man, go look in the mirror. Anti hunters are laughing their butts off right now.

Itake it he saying the person goes and kills a deer with no intention of eating it....a killer per se

Yep you guessed right and I don't care what Phil would say. I donate deer every year and I'm pretty sure I could hunt circles around you all day long. But I'm probably not a real hunter.

Giving to charity is inherently evil? Mother Teresa...what a scoundrel she was.

Deer meat tastes like crap and I give it all away except a few backstraps.
Who cares what phil thinks, he is a rich tv personality

I don't agree with letting anything lay. If I shoot it then I clean it and it gets eaten. Make excuses about letting it lay all you want but that's just an excuse to be lazy. There is nothing wrong with keeping all of it or giving all of it away. What ever is your preference. Just don't let it go to waste. Oh, and save me the "I'm feeding the wildlife" statement.

Oh and if you have 200 hogs tearing up your fields and you want to shoot all of them. I would suggest having a lot of sharp knives.

I feel it is safe to assume you have never been in that situation or else you wouldn't make that statement.

What does it matter whether you donate it or eat it yourself?

That's a safe assumption. Chadillac do you eat rats, snakes, and roaches too?

id love to show you my gut pile... just like swatting flys... but your pretty much in Houston so I understand

This thread confuses me. It's weird to see hunters attacking other hunters on this board. Is the OP saying that only meat hunting for personal consumption counts as "real" hunting?

only takes one knife to start stabbing them with when you run out of bullets.

Pictures of you gutting a snake or rat or a roach will work for me Nav...

I've gutted a snake...it isn't happening again.

I've gutted/skinned quite a few in my days.

Well I think there should be a subject change on what to do with flies and roaches. I mean, should we really swat them or step on them? Are they really hurting anything? Why not trap them and release them into the wild? Is it really necessary to gas them and watch them die?

Oh heck, who really cares. Sometimes people just need to keep their opinions to themselves and to keep their mouths shut.

This thread needa to be like the federal government, SHUT DOWN.

Who hasn't gutted, skinned, and eaten a few rattlesnakes? They're delicious.

If a hunter is in it just for the thrill of the hunt and the kill and not interested in the meat and they are ethical hunters and harvest the animal and donate the meat then I have no problems at all. If they make the kill for the thrill of it and leave it to rot in the field then I have a major problem with it.

I will also add that my opinion does not apply to hogs!!!

This is a pretty good thread for separating the country boys from the city boys.......

were is the poll master??