Hunting=Sport????

[Ohiobucks]

If it is a sport, the score year to date is:

Ohiobucks 3

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[Tominator]

If it is a sport, the score year to date is:

Ohiobucks 3

Tominator 2

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Which is better than last year, with ML season ahead of us, and I have more access to urban zone, and my kid killed and yours didn't, so there's actually 3 in the freezer, although 2 of them are fawns one of them not much bigger than a poodle.

So, I don't know where that leaves us.

Then again, it's not a competition.

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[Dubie]

Back when I was young, we didn't have enough money for meat and our home. The farm pulled in a negitive number every year, and side jobs barly covered bills. Back then hunting (some would call what we did to feed the family poaching, since we often "Stole" wildlife from the crown without paying tag fees) was a nesacary part of our survival and most definatly not a sport. It just doesn't compare. No one has to play hockey, or race cars for survival.

Now I have more then enough money for food, a house, cars, trucks, boats and everything else in the world. I still hunt. Sometimes it gets a little competitive. Who got the most ducks that day. Who got the biggest buck. But I always see it as going back to my roots. Its a part of who I am and where I came from. I most definatly would place it in more of a cultural/religeous catagory, kind of like Easter and Christmas.

[Guest AllArmyoutdoorsSD]

Whatever you wanna call it. I hunt it's in my soul. Kinda like going to church, not to sound blasphemous but how much closer to our maker can you be?

[Dawg]

A tough question, perhaps. I think that it all depends on why you hunt. Do you need to hunt to feed the family? Do you hunt to fulfill some primal urge? Do you hunt just for the fun and the challenge? For me, every hunt should be an adventure, a dance between life and death, where some suffering on my part is often an important part of the experience. Sporting? Not to the hunted. If it is a sport, then it is so only to the warped part of our minds that makes it so. It is merely a central part of life and living (a way of life) that those of us who still retain a realistic view of the natural world can enjoy and absorb into our being. Only if you hunt for the entertainment value alone could you possibly think of it as a sport.

Well said elkoholic

I have an aversion to calling hunting a sport also. It bugs me to call it a sport for the same reasons mentioned by others.

Hunting isn't a game played with another human being, so how can it be a sport. Killing isn't a sport, it's just the bonus at the end of a fine hunting episode.

Hunting to me is life, seen from a different perspective, than most people have. It's a passion, it's an activity, it's a way of life, it is a form of a game that you can never lose. Hunting is something you can do, with or without a weapon, with or without a camera ....you just have to be there, and participate. The prize can be a picture, a full freezer, or just a memory.

Hardly a sport in my eyes.

The only two I can agree with!!!

[TexasDeerHunter]

I personally reguard it as a tradition and/or passion . To me it is much more than a sport. I think certain types of hunting for some folks may be considered a sport, but the hunting I do and the reason I do it definately does not represent a sport to me.