Reply #9: Not for sport, for dinner in many areas [View All]

[DonP]

Hunting has as much to do with getting out in the field at dawn with friends after a breakfast at a small town diner and walking the cut over cornfield with a good dog or two. Then you get to make fun of each other for shots missed or made and talk of past hunts and dogs that were great or too dumb to get out of the car when you called them.

FWIW every hunter I have ever met in my 57 years eats what they hunt, pheasant, deer etc. With the times being hard and jobs getting scarcer, people in rural and even suburban areas are using hunting to put meat ont he table. A processed deer and a pheasant or two, even rabbits fill a freezer for someone that needs meat.

There's also a practical side to hunting as well. With over 48,000 deer being killed by cars every year just in Wisconsin alone, 200,000 taken legally by hutners and the herd is still increasing in size, how else do we try and control the size of the herd?

Hunting may not be your choice, but a lot of people count on it. Don't assume that everyone that carries a shotgun is another Cheney or Scalia on a canned hunt. There are a lot of Dems out there in the field every season too, including our leading candidate.