Eliza Dushku hunting animals

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Like she said I can't remember the exact quote but if you don't mind eating the meat don't be afraid to kill the animal.

I only disagree when the animal is endangered or something.

There should be more laws on hunting in general though.
 
Nifty! In my opinion, if you kill it, you eat it (unless it's a pest of some kind, like a possum or a rat). I have no problem with people hunting as long as they don't only intend to hack its head off to hang on their wall and leave the rest of it laying in the forest. And hunting with a bow has got to be REALLY hard. And elk? UBER-hard! Have you seen the size of those things?!
 
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Actually, turkeys suck the worst, close to the ground, small target, much quicker than I'd give them credit for too
Allycat said:
I don't know if anybody else saw Eliza on Jimmy Kimmel.
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I did mention it in the thread below, which I guess was at the top before this one. 😉


My reaction is clearly visable in that thread. But I can say that I do eat meat, so the animals need to be killed. My grandfather was a hunter. But seeing Elizas skill bothers me a little. Ok, so it´s not the same. But go hunting without have the right skills is never ok. I´m not saying she don´t have the skill (I really don´t have a clue how to judge), but that didn´t convince me that she have the skill either.

And it sounded like she did it because of the boyfriend. Doesn´t sound like the best argument to me. But what do I know? I want to eat meat so someone has to kill them, and I´d rather it isn´t me. But let it be as painless as possible.
 
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better late than never!
Wow, I didn't know anyone could still hunt with bow and arrow these days! And to be honest, I would've least expected that from a Hollywood actress
 
Social Suicide said:
Wow, I didn't know anyone could still hunt with bow and arrow these days! And to be honest, I would've least expected that from a Hollywood actress
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Not only bows, but also spears and even knives. Lee Thompson, the founder and director of Cold Steel Knives hunts wild pigs with Bowie knives, and I believe he's also been big game hunting in Africa with spears.

As far as hunting in general goes, I come from a family of hunters, men who grew up in a time when wild game was a necessary supplement to their day to day diet. They ate what they shot, and never hunted just for trophies. I've never much cared for the concept of hunting just to hang a head up on a wall, but some people enjoy it, and, as long as the species is not endangered, it's no worse than sitting in a stadium guzzling beer and yelling for one (insert sport here) team to beat the crap out of another.

(That'll probably jerk a knot in somebody's plow line)
 
^ And in some cases, it's necessary to weed out the weaker animals. I know here in VA we were having issues with the deer population. There were just too many does, and a lot of them were sick, but there was nothing that could really be done about it because it wasn't deer season and people tend to just shoot bucks during deer season. I don't know what they did about it, but I know they were thinking about throwing open hunting does year-round for at least a year.
 
white avenger
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Our problem in Georgia is overpopulation combined with loss of habitat, the result being deer being hit and sometimes actually causing bad accidents on the highways. Since the deer have almost no natural predators here, hunting is the only answer.
^^^^In Wisconsin they get cronic wasting disease. You have to be willing to thin a heard if it needs to be done in order to be a conservationist. I agree with The Kinslayer, and like him I hope Eliza knew what she was doing for the animal sake. (and her boyfriends)

Starving can be a natural death for a wild animal, but a cruel one. Much crueler IMHO than say another animals claws and fangs....and I'd wager an arrow or deerslug is even less painfull than slash/clamp/tear/repeat.

I don't mind hunting at all and find fishing peacefull, what I despise is wanton wastefull slaughter and Mr. Fisherman with his catch and release. Just eat the fish allready.

If your going to put a hook in its mouth and rip it from its happy water home to our unbreathable dimension of non-spongebobery the least you can do is grace it with tartar sauce and some fries and/or chips.
 
white avenger
white avenger
If her shooting demonstration was any real indication, that deer that she killed last Christmas must've been close enough to reach out and pet.
Washburne
Washburne
You agree with me and no karma? :( Just kiddong of course but if you agree with me I think you deserve some. ;)
I just read the thread title again and lol it sounds kind of funny. It makes ELiza sound so...wild, lol. I know this is a very random comment, sorry.
 
I have never understood the desire to kill something, the closet thing I can muster is people wanting to 'connect with their instincts'.

I think that I would enjoy 'the hunt' but only if I didn't have to kill the animal, Track it, watch it, respect it, but kill it, hell no.

So I say 'why?' but i'm not going to judge, just ask why.

If any of you guys hunt, can you tell me why you enjoy hunting?
 
I've never been hunting, so I've got no clue about how to go about tracking and stalking an animal.

But saying that, I'm not against it, and I wouldn't say no to going on a hunt, if the opportunity arose, as long as it's for food purposes. I hate the people who hunt for sport and take back their 'trophy' and leave the rest of it lying there.

I eat meat, so someone has to kill the animal that I'm eating. People survived for thousands of years through hunting alone. Why should that stop? What's changed? Just because it's the 21st century and we're supposed to have people to do that for us?

Fair play to Eliza if she's hunting for the right reasons. There must be something very satisfying about knowing where exactly your meal came from.

Side note: Those of you out there who are against hunting...are you against fishing? 'Cause, to me, there's no difference. I've been fishing, I enjoy fishing.
 
To me, the only acceptable excuse for hunting is for food. Even fishing and just throwing the fish back is stupid and not really fair on the poor wittle fishys.
 
I've never been hunting but I have no issue with it as long as the animal is killed quickly and not left maimed and in pain.
One thing that worries me about hunting with a bow and arrow would be if the animal was hit but not killed and managed to escape alive, that would be awful.
I'm all for culling if it is necessary for over populated areas where animals are dying from starvation etc but against hunting of animals that are endangered for things like skins, that is just stupid and unnecessary.
I don't know how things like hunting season work. In Australia most of the animals that are hunted are pests anyway so the more killed, the better (foxes, rabbits, feral cats). Im not too keen on eating those animals with all the diseases and stuff. I have heard that there is a huge market for kangaroo meat in Russia.
 
Aussie said:
I've never been hunting but I have no issue with it as long as the animal is killed quickly and not left maimed and in pain.
One thing that worries me about hunting with a bow and arrow would be if the animal was hit but not killed and managed to escape alive, that would be awful.
I'm all for culling if it is necessary for over populated areas where animals are dying from starvation etc but against hunting of animals that are endangered for things like skins, that is just stupid and unnecessary.
I don't know how things like hunting season work. In Australia most of the animals that are hunted are pests anyway so the more killed, the better (foxes, rabbits, feral cats). Im not too keen on eating those animals with all the diseases and stuff. I have heard that there is a huge market for kangaroo meat in Russia.
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Wild rabbit was one of my favorites when I was a kid, along with squirrel, quail, and doves. Once or twice a year, my dad and all of his friends would get together and have a "quail supper," sharing all of their collective game. And, yeah, one of the things that made him, and all of his friends, really angry was the uncaring idiots who would just wound an animal, even something as small as a bird, and then leave it to suffer. Those were real sportsmen, and men who mostly grew up when hunting and fishing were to put food on their family's tables, not to hang trophies on the walls.
 
I don't mind hunting so much, especially under certain circumstances.

Hunting for food is okay with me. It's about the only case I don't get upset about hunting with guns.
Most of the time, I think gun hunting isn't fair to the poor critters.
I have NO issues with bow or spear hunting....unless people were just killing and leaving them there to rot. That might bug me.

But, MAN! She's really good! Those bows aren't easy to pull back!
 
NightBird said:
I have never understood the desire to kill something, the closet thing I can muster is people wanting to 'connect with their instincts'.

I think that I would enjoy 'the hunt' but only if I didn't have to kill the animal, Track it, watch it, respect it, but kill it, hell no.

So I say 'why?' but i'm not going to judge, just ask why.

If any of you guys hunt, can you tell me why you enjoy hunting?
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1) Any animal out there can see you, hear you, and smell you long before you can do the same to it. They're faster, more agile, stronger for their respective size and weight, and have their own built-in weapons. They can go places you can't (or, at any rate, with much less effort than you can,) and, with very few exceptions, can tear you a new @$$hole if you screw up and they turn on you.

2) I never hunted squirrel with anything but a .22 pistol or a single-shot .410 shotgun (the smallest you can get, as far as I know.) Rabbit I hunted with a pistol, or (rarely) a .22 rifle. Anything bigger I use something big enough to get the job done cleanly (I favor a .30-30 Winchester or an 8mm Mauser.) BUT...

3) I never take anything beyond 100 yards, and that only for deer or larger game. Not that I couldn't: I've hit hubcap-sized targets at 250 yards using a pistol - open sights only, no scope. If I can see my target, I can hit it, period. But I don't call sitting on one mountain and shooting a deer 1,000 yards away "hunting". When I take small game, it's always within 25 to 30 yards, often as close as 10 yards. Which means...

4) Whatever I take, I beat it at its own game, in its own environment. It had all the advantages, and I still won. That's why I hunt - that and the fact that I like wild meat much better than the bland stuff from the supermarket.

I have, on more than one occasion, looked at my target and held fire, knowing that I could have taken it. Two years ago, I passed on a nice buck that I could have taken easily - but I didn't like the shot. It wasn't clean enough for me so I passed. If I was starving, that would be a different matter. In that case, all's fair, because pretty much anything out there would eat you if the situations were reversed. That's what Nature is all about.
 
Okay no one jump on me for this opinion but I'm against hunting of any form unless it's for survival. Be it for survival through eating what you've hunted or whether it's to prevent being overran by the animal. And in that latter scenario I always think it should be done by a professional. I mean some of you have said hunting with a gun is unfair, but if you don't hit the mark perfectly first time with a bow and arrow the animal dies in agony.

And I know there are many complicated sides to this concept. As for example when is it acceptable to hunt, what type of hunting is acceptable, what animals should we be allowed to hunt etc, but for me personally I'm umcomfortable with the whole thing. Whether you're hunting squirrel or dear with a gun or arrow, I don't care it just feels wrong to me. Especially just hunting for sport, that's a real...hate of mine. And the fact that Eliza hunts has admittedly changed my opinion of her, I can't help it.

Like I said, don't jump on me for all that because I do accept that there are many sides to this arguments but that is just my personal instinctual feelings on the matter.
 
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I completely agree.
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