Email to an Anti-Hunter
I got an email from Steven, who had gone back through the Big Deer Blog archives and pictures and come to this conclusion: You try to make hunting out to be some great and honorable thing, but there is nothing great or honorable about what you do. Hunting is a joke unless you need the meat to survive. (Note: I paraphrase and clean up some of his language.) My first inclination was to tell old Steve to shove it, but I thought better of it and typed this response: I do not hunt to be great or honorable, just the opposite. For me hunting is a simple, spiritual and deeply personal pleasure. It is a part of how I was formed [...]