Hi redwitch: I understand and agree with what you say and believe we are only talking about differences in degrees. The experiences with your father were common place in the day and many of us stocked our freezers with fish fowl, venison etc.

My theory is with the advent of the movie Bambi people retreated from hunting preferring to stocked their freezers with store bought. Some became radicals (PETA). I am talking about a majority but not all Americans

Recall the uproar when Sarah Palin televised her hunting and dressing skills and dressing after killing a moose. Most of the nation was in an uproar.

People don't hunt and the closest they come to gutting a critter is pulling paper wrapped giblets out of the fowls cavity

So I conclude most have lost their pioneer spirit and they don't have the stomach or desire to duplicate what our fore fathers experienced.

I do not see anything wrong with people hunting for the sport of it except for bona fide protected species because hunting and fishing are a way of conservation and herd control.

Personal Best Regards:

If we were watching a viDeo of cattle nose to tail in a chute, where when it was their turn and stuck their head through the opening and were then either shot in the head or hit between the eyes with a sledge hammer that would be called what.
Slaughter. But not barbaric or in humane?

Something equally unpleasant for chickens, pigs, et al?

I think she meant semi-automatic.

There big difference hunting for food cause you are starving and cutting flocks down with semiautomatic and pump shotguns. Those FAs don't looked like they even missed meal. They should only be allowed single shot muzzle loaders and two in blind that might be close to pioneer.

Well as we all know, the Morses are bigtime hunters. So I guess it must be OK