I've only ever hunted in videogames, and as an "expert" I say, perfect shot! 

Maybe someday I'll go hunt myself. I am quite a good shot at the range, but that is as far my experience goes. 

5 hours ago, Orweller said:

I've only ever hunted in videogames, and as an "expert" I say, perfect shot! 

Maybe someday I'll go hunt myself. I am quite a good shot at the range, but that is as far my experience goes. 

Took out both lungs and blew the heart in half so you could say it was a perfect shoot. Almost instantaneous but it was a shame because I like to eat the heart so the dogs got the heart on this one. 

I'm holding you on hog hunting probably in the spring @Geezy 😆 

9 hours ago, Geezy said:

Took out both lungs and blew the heart in half so you could say it was a perfect shoot. Almost instantaneous but it was a shame because I like to eat the heart so the dogs got the heart on this one. 

An ethical shot. To think I was once anti-hunting. I did not have a full understanding and was drawing conclusion out of ignorance. Just as I have mocked the keto diet. Not afraid to admit it, because I am not afraid to grow. 

8 hours ago, Meathead said:

I'm holding you on hog hunting probably in the spring @Geezy 😆 

Anytime buddy. 

22 minutes ago, Orweller said:

An ethical shot. To think I was once anti-hunting. I did not have a full understanding and was drawing conclusion out of ignorance. Just as I have mocked the keto diet. Not afraid to admit it, because I am not afraid to grow. 

That’s understandable. We were all ignorant of something until we opened our minds and learned the truth. 
What many fail to understand is that for one thing to live, another must die. With that understanding comes responsibility. Whether that’s raising my own animals for food or hunting for my food I have a responsibility towards that animal to ethically care for them and as humanly as possible put them down. Along with that comes a reverence for that animal and it’s sacrifice for me. 
When my son was about 8 years old he was out front shooting his BB gun. He spotted a field lark (bird) siting on the high line wire. He asked me if he could shoot it. Rather than tell him no and that it was against the law I decided to let him make up his own mind so I told him yeah, he could shoot it. I then told him “But I don’t know how it’s gonna taste”. He asked if we ate those kind of birds and I told him not normally. I said that we eat dove, quail, duck, geese but I wouldn’t eat a field lark unless I was starving, but if he took that birds life that would be his lunch because we only kill for food or protection, so if it’s not vermin then it must be food and that field lark wasn’t bothering us therefore if you kill it it’s food. He decided that that bird didn’t need killing.  

10 minutes ago, Geezy said:

That’s understandable. We were all ignorant of something until we opened our minds and learned the truth. 
What many fail to understand is that for one thing to live, another must die. With that understanding comes responsibility. Whether that’s raising my own animals for food or hunting for my food I have a responsibility towards that animal to ethically care for them and as humanly as possible put them down. Along with that comes a reverence for that animal and it’s sacrifice for me. 
When my son was about 8 years old he was out front shooting his BB gun. He spotted a field lark (bird) siting on the high line wire. He asked me if he could shoot it. Rather than tell him no and that it was against the law I decided to let him make up his own mind so I told him yeah, he could shoot it. I then told him “But I don’t know how it’s gonna taste”. He asked if we ate those kind of birds and I told him not normally. I said that we eat dove, quail, duck, geese but I wouldn’t eat a field lark unless I was starving, but if he took that birds life that would be his lunch because we only kill for food or protection, so if it’s not vermin then it must be food and that field lark wasn’t bothering us therefore if you kill it it’s food. He decided that that bird didn’t need killing.  

I blame Disney movies lol. 

They always depicted hunters as evil and without morals. 

I've shot vermin in my backyard, but with a BB gun, so to adhere with local laws and for safety. They were all humane kills. Alternatives would've been poisons and traps, which could lead to other animals being affected.