deer season(gun) in missouri

[KC Kings]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

Who hunts "just for sport"? More garbage from people with no damn clue who make this crap up while they enjoy a steak and discuss forcing their beliefs on others.

A vast majority of the hunters I know hunt just for the sport. Last year 6,500 deer in Missouri were donated to share the harvest. Do you really think hunters are concerned with feeding the needy, or does this provide them a good ethical solution for the hunters that like hunting for the sport. When a young doe taste 10X's better than an old buck, why do so many hunters hold out for a big buck?

My brother still has deer from 2005 in the freezer, and he shot four more this weekend. He donated 2 of them to STH because it allows him to have the hunting experience without wasting the meat. We have an unwritten rule that you can't shoot a buck with a smaller rack than you have previously taken on the land, (got an 8 pointer last year, so this year I can't shoot an 8 pointer or less). For the meat I prefer a young doe over a buck anyday, but we hunt by Truman Lake where all of the deer are acorn fed, and they never get as big as the ones in Iowanian's pictures.

I do think that non-hunters think that the hunting experience is all about the killing, which is not correct. The "thrill" of the hunt is definately there, but hunting larger game especially is more of a respect thing for me. You can eat a burger without thinking twice about the cow, but when you shoot a deer you repect the fact that you have taken the life of an animal to provide food for you and your family. I don't think very many hunters shoot a deer, take the rack and leave the carcass, but I do think that deer hunting especially is a sport first, and just happens to be a means for food and land management. You see these hunters with the $5000 4-wheelers they get just to drag their deer out of the woods when you can get a full side of beef for $700. I would take a T-Bone steak over any piece of venison in a heart beat.