New Blog

I found a new blog just recently. I don't remember what series of links of this and that led me there. But it is a blog about hunting and the outdoors by a, as he puts it, "Vegan turned hunter."

It definitely gives him a slightly different take on the matter - and I like the way he writes.

One recent post starts something like this:

‘Gone killing’

Mar 5th, 2010

by Tovar.

Hunters and anglers, writes Marc Bekoff in Animals Matter, “often like to hang signs that say ‘Gone Fishin’’ or ‘Gone Huntin’.’ But what these slogans really mean is ‘Gone killing.’”

When I opposed hunting, I would—like Bekoff—have objected to the euphemisms. Even catch-and-release fishing, with its professed intent not to kill, often does.

Now that I hunt, though, what strikes me is simply that “gone killing” is a terribly inaccurate description of my experiences in the woods.

When I hunt deer, the creatures I see most often are small woodland birds, usually chickadees. If I’m lucky, a pileated woodpecker might land on a nearby tree trunk with a thwack, or a pair of ruffed grouse might scurry by in the brush. Typically, the biggest mammal I see is a red squirrel, hopping past or pausing to scold me.

Hunters do hope to kill now and then. Yet many of us go years without doing so. I recall talking with a man who was out in the woods, hunting with his son. He said he hadn’t shot a deer in over twenty years. He seemed perfectly content just being out there.

He goes on from there and gives a great description of what a day in the woods is really like for most of us.

If you get a chance, slide over there. His writing is good and, I would think, you will approve of the subject matter