Kill the rodent ?

[TNFF319]

OP- My Grandfather was an avid hunter. He actually taught me all I know. He quit shooting as he got older. He said he had grown out of killing.

[JeffL]

I felt bad about running over an opossum, but I didn't feel bad at all about killing a deer or turkey and eating it.

[Fourtyfive]

I've been invited to shoot cyotes with a country music star friend of mine tomorrow night , I feel like killing again. Time to break out the FNFAL.

Edited May 29, 2011 by Threeeighty

[DaveS]

Sounds fun.....ticks are bad though!

[ShaunM]

I've been invited to shoot cyotes with a country music star friend of mine tomorrow night , I feel like killing again. Time to break out the FNFAL.

When you say night do you mean at night or in the evening. Hunting coyotes at night is illegal, just giving you a heads up in case you didn't know. Good luck.

[Fourtyfive]

10-4

[Guest Jeffster]

Not going to apply the thought process of youth to the end result of Manhood however; with my daisy and assorted survival gear (Ha), i slayed more small critters than I want to recall. Later in life, I shot lots of skunks/coyotes and such and never gave thought to eating one of those darn things. Now in my 40's I've let many beautiful animals just walk on by. Don't feel like I needed to kill just to punch a tag anymore. I regret some of the birds and frogs I killed as a kid, with that daisy but then again I was just a stupid kid.

So to the OP, nope it is normal to just enjoy being in the outdoors without killing anything. I like just looking more often than not.

[camp]

i still hunt to fill my freezer, although i will not hunt in my back yard as them critters are part of my emergency food bank. although any cat seen stalking my food bank do so at their own risk

[Il Duce]

When I was 16 and driving , if a squirll crossed the road it was fair game , I would even drive at it and hope I could hear it hit the tires ; now I steer the other way.

That's effed up.

[Motasyco]

I've hunted and fished. I ate what I hunted and would usually catch and release when fishing. Well, anymore I still fish but I seem to have lost the knack for the catch part. I've had to dispatch many a possum and raccoon that insisted on being where they were encouraged not to be. I just don't recall when killing was "cool".

[PirateQui]

I've never gone hunting, hope to some day. I'll say this about cars though... I don't swerve to hit rodents, but I don't swerve away either. There are to many external dangers on a road for me to even try to swerve to miss a squirrel. The squirrel is an obstacle I know the car can overcome... Swerving just brings far to many potential problems into the situation for me to even be interested in it... I have friends that say, "Well, I only swerve around the squirrel when it's safe to"... And for me that's not really good enough. There are just to many unknowns when moving a 2 ton vehicle at 45 mph... Not to mention this puts you in the habit of swerving and may cause it to become instinctual. No thanks. If the rodent makes it great, if they don't I don't worry about it.