Dad had a good friend who let us hunt on his property. When I decided I wanted to hunt deer at the tender age of 15, my dad, who didn’t hunt, agreed to take me. It’s also called "stalk hunting" or simply "stalking." Stalking deer & stand placement Human Scent It’s staying on the ground and moving quietly to sneak up on your quarry. I assume the name is derived from the act of stalking and then being still. Still-hunting, on the other hand, is somewhat of a misnomer. You either wait in a tree stand or a ground blind. Stand-hunting is exactly what it sounds like. There are basically two common ways to hunt deer (or any big game for that matter): stand-hunting and still-hunting. The best way to ensure that hunting meets those requirements is to make certain I know what I’m doing. Law aside, that basically boils down to preventing or limiting suffering, taking only what I need, and doing what’s best for the wild population. It’s mindful eating.Īs someone who hunts for food, I feel responsible for treating the animals I hunt as ethically and humanely as possible. I would rather eat wild, and taking an active role in the process makes me more aware of the sacrifice of the animal, which gives me more gratitude. I do make exception for humanely raised meat, but humanely raised is still raised for the sole purpose of feeding a human. 20 or so years later, I still eat mostly what I hunt or scavenge from roadkill. When I was in my twenties I stopped eating commercially raised meat altogether. I also feel better knowing that the meat I’m eating was not bred specifically to feed a "civilized" society with no possibility of freedom, because jumping the feedlot fence is not an option.
Knowing that makes me feel much better about what I'm eating. The deer that I hunt, on the other hand, were born wild, roamed naturally, ate mostly what they were meant to eat, and weren't artificially fattened for my fork. And there’s the knowing that your food likely led a horrible life.
There are the growth hormones, the antibiotics, the bad juju, and God knows what else that pollutes your body when you eat feedlot beef. It’s a crime against human health and a crime against the choiceless animals who are forced to suffer the inhumane atrocities inflicted by the assembly-line commodification of life. I’m no fan of the commercial meat industry. Hunting provides our main source of animal protein. Hunting is one way that I feed my family – that includes the four-leggeds. Why I huntīefore I get to the how of hunting, let me stress the why. A few decades into it, I’m still trying to figure it out, but I have learned enough to stock my freezer with deer meat every year. But it is something I started doing when I was pretty young.Įverything I know about hunting is self taught or stolen from friends.
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