Killing conscience
I was just sitting hear thinking about things to shoot and it got me thinking about what people like to kill the most and why? I my self have never rely shot a hole lot of animals, mainly because my mums a raving hippy and raised my to love all animals, Yet the other side of me wants to shoot the shit out of everything that moves. I find my self staring down the cross hairs of my storm at wood pigeons with the trigger pulled to shooting point, but then a little voise in my head always says “you’ll feel like a cunt if ya do it!”
I know if I shoot it, I have no clue how to prep it for cooking or even if I could?
I shot a pigeon the other day but it was a mercy killing as he was injured beyond repair. I was walking with my partner and kids when she spotted this pigeon chilling in a bush about 2 ft away. I took one look and knew something was wrong, so went into my yard and grabbed a net and box.
As I placed the net on him he dint even budge so I boxed him and took him into my yard, grabbed the storm, opened the box and put one straight through the top of its neck. As soon as he stopped twitching I took a look to see what was wrong with him. I lifted his wing away from his body only to find a huge hole the size of his chest crawling with maggots! needless to say I dint feel an once of guilt.
So who hear struggles with guilt over killing animals and who hear just don’t give a fudge?
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I’m not much of a casual killer. Unless it’s spiders, ants, shit like that is toasted without guilt…
I can fish without much guilt, if I eat them or not. I don’t have any crops so no flying pests around here deal with…
I would have no problem killing and dressing my kill to eat as food. My neighbors were huge hunters when I was a kid and taught me how to cut just about any animal up for food… 😯
Talk about a hatred killing. Just took out four little fucking loud ass mice that were making all kinds of a racket around the house and shitting into the light fixtures from above. It was like I won the lottery when the trap went SNAP! One dude got it across his face, there was blood coming out of his ear and eye. 😯 Not an ounce of remorse on that front. I tried the no kill traps and ended up feeding them for a week or so… 👿
78 cents for two small mouse traps. 😯
One shot, one kill. 😈
Good post Joe 😎
I kill stuff because its a ‘job’ .
All my shooting grounds are on farmers land, with an on going rabbit/fox/pigeon/crow problem. I can shoot any of these without any qualm due to the fact they are pests. When it comes to deer, I do have to mentally ‘adjust’ myself to shoot.
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I enjoy shooting stuff thats an identified problem. Other stuff thats out there, doing its own thing, I have a slight problem with. Don’t get me wrong, if I needed to kill it to eat, then no worries….
The gray forest squirrels of the east are totally different from the Desert squirrels of the West, or so I am told.
I guess it depends on where you grow up and what’s cooked for ya at home. As with most food, the way it is prepared. Here in the South, squirrel gravy is a delicacy, like shashimi for Walt in Hawaii…….
Sam 😆
Sounds like your friends were being dicks to me.
I was in the same boat as you when I started fishing. I brought home a bunch of fish but didn’t know how to clean them. The best answer to my problem, and possibly yours as well? Youtube. Look it up on there, there are always a bunch of videos telling how to clean any game animal.
Squirrels are gross. Rats with fuzzy tails, I will never eat them. I really don’t eat much any of the animals I shoot. Until it gets to deer and such I pretty much leave them out for something else to eat. If someone wants them they can have ’em. But I don’t eat them.
And I sleep pretty well at night. 😉
I don’t have any feelings of guilt when a clean kill is made. I do when when a ground hog crawls back into the den. My conscious feels good when I kill non native invasive species of birds and Native crows, because it saves our Hawks and song birds.
I am paid a bounty $$$$ for killing ground hogs, because their dens are destructive to land and buildings, When a burrow was dug under the swimming pool and the house, was explained that would crack the foundation and destroy the swimming pool, I lost my conscious toward killing ground hogs?
I never learned how to dress game, so when I did take game, I would help and give a fellow hunter a cut of my game to get it dressed. The last game hunt I went on was a Squirrel hunt with 3 friends? I took four squirrels and others none. I offered my squirrels to who would take em. No one would take em and asked why I didn’t want them. I explained that I didn’t know how to dress em. At that point I was called a “lair” and told how sorry it was to be too lazy to dress my kill and to try pawn em off onto sameone else.
That was the last time I hunted game for food and yes my conscious still bothers me today about that. Should I ever go game hunting again I will make plans to have my kill dressed, before the hunt?
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I always feel a twinge of guilt when I kill something even though I sometimes
convince myself that it won’t matter, as I am adjusting the parallax…. The
more I dislike the prey the easier it is to shoot and the less guilt I feel when I
kill it…Well I might feel just as guilty but, I think maybe the hatred somewhat
squelches the guilt… I was killing Doves to eat with no problem until, I found
they had intestinal worms… That was a heart breaking experience as I have
eaten Dove all my life and never even heard of a Dove with worms…. I shot
a few after that because I found them disgusting filthy little shit birds (dislike)
but that got old and I quit… So, for me, the smaller the prey the easier it is
to snuff it out and it gets harder as the prey gets larger. Four legged animals
are next to impossible for me to shoot for some reason… I can’t even tell you
why it bothers me…. But, if one pisses me off or starts tearing stuff up, then
it is “kill on sight”.
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When I was a kid, I used to shoot squirrels, birds, etc, but the older I got the more remorseful I felt about it and stopped doing it. A few years back though I had a bunch of sparrows that kept building nests in my roof gutter. As quickly as I would remove the nests, they would build new ones which caused a big problem when it rained and the water would back up into the house walls. Searching the internet to find a good, quiet air rifle is what lead me to this fine forum (TOG actually) and ultimately a Talon SS rifle which I used to get rid of all the sparrows….guilt free. I suppose to each there own but I just can’t randomly kill things for no reason anymore. Mr. Squirrel doesn’t bother me so I don’t bother him. Mr. Chipmunk on the other hand is really getting on my nerves…..and in my house. Him and his friends may have to go.