“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness” - John Muir. For a young Chris McCandless who was unsure of his identity and struggling with family issues, it makes sense that he turned to the outdoors in an effort to find clarity and purpose. Chris grew up in a fairly wealthy home, with a seemingly ideal life. His parents gave him everything he ever wanted and more monetarily, however there was always a disconnect between them. After his father’s affair, Chris seemed to view all of their gifts as bribery, and as a result, rejected them.…
You’re hunting in the open savanna you haven't seen anything all day, and in the distance you see a big lion lying down. The lions lately have been killing more than antelope than usual, and decreasing the population. You have pull out your rifle and get ready to take down this beast. You set up your rifle in your blind. You look into your scope, put your finger on the trigger, and bang!…
First, you want to find a spot that will cover you and will allow you to shoot in a field. Next, you want to set up your decoys twenty yards away to allow them to draw attention away from you and to keep the other turkeys occupied while you try to shoot them. Once you hear the turkeys begin to gobble, you can begin to call. It may take a few different calls to try to find out what the turkeys will respond to. As they come out of roost, the gobblers will begin to gobble more often and the noise will increase as they move closer.…
Waterfowl hunting is the sport or the practice of hunting ducks, geese, swans or any other types of waterfowl. Waterfowl hunting is one of the most popular types of hunting in North America. Waterfowl hunting is growing every year. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife service's “Migratory birds, such as geese and ducks attracted 2.6 million hunters in 2011” ("2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife ..."). In order to hunt, ducks hunters have to purchase a duck stamp.…
Some people think spending a day in the woods is relaxing and peaceful. I used to think that as well, until I went turkey hunting. Spending a day in the woods hunting with my brothers was frustrating, hard, and aggravating all at the same time because of the mistakes I made. It was a life changing experience. Hunting will get your blood pumping and your heart racing you’ll end up wanting to go turkey hunting more than you ever thought you would.…
Deer hunting is a great sport I love the excitement and the rush that you get from an animal. I am always looking to improve on techniques for being quiet when the deer are approaching my stand I like to stand when a deer is coming than sitting down because it gives me more room and I can pull my bow a lot easier than sitting down. But some hunters like to sit down so they don’t scare the deer away, but I think it’s more of a challenge to do. As a deer hunter there is a right time and a wrong time for standing up when you are in an treestand like for one reason it’s a risky maneuver when you are trying not to spook a deer when standing up.…
Why We Should Hunt Do you ever ask yourself why humans hunt? There are many different reasons on why we hunt. Hunting goes all the way back in time to the creation of man. People used hunting to survive, provide, and flourish on the earth. Over the years many people have started to question why we still hunt because we have all our needs met by supermarkets.…
These precautions are not just for the hunter’s safety but for nearby hunters as well. May it be deer, coon, fowl or moose hunting - an attitude of precautions and safety saves many lives. So, if you want to follow some safety tips to help create better hunting experience for…
If you don’t have wind, there is no telling on where they are going to come in from or land in the spread. So now, when you hunt ducks in a field you can either put out feeding duck decoys or you can just put out your Canada geese decoys with a couple of Mojos. Mojos are duck decoys that the wings spin on. They work pretty much the same. All you are doing when you are buying duck decoys is spending money you don’t have to.…
Fox-hunting - A Barbaric Tradition That Should Remain Firmly In The Past Fox-hunting - “The sport of hunting a fox across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the English landed gentry” (Oxford Dictionary) Two polarised viewpoints co-exist in relation to fox-hunting, people either hate it, as they believe it is a horrendous form of animal cruelty, or they are supportive of it, believing that foxes aren’t like other domesticated animals and that their lives have no worth. From a young age of 12 I took an interest in the differences between foxes and dogs. I wondered why dogs receive domestication and the other doesn’t; why humans can brutally murder foxes and the other is commonly…
Turkeys are beaten abused and mistreated by animal slaughters. Their beaks are broken off with no pain killers. They are stepped on and they are killed with no pain killers. (huffington post) Every year millions of turkey are killed for thanksgiving alone.…
For centuries, hunting has been a key part of survival. In the distant past, people had to hunt for food or else they would have to live on nothing but fruits and vegetables. If people were able to hunt back then and it has persistently been okay to hunt until now, hunting is evidently not so bad. There is no need to discontinue hunting. If it was tolerable then, it should be tolerable now.…
Trophy hunting has been around for many years. The issue with trophy hunting has been an ongoing argument on whether they should ban the “sport” or if they should leave it the way it is. Trophy hunting should be illegal because it is morally wrong, wasteful, and kills off endangered species. It is morally wrong because they are killing these animals for the sport of it. Trophy hunting is wasteful because they don’t use the entire animal's body.…
In 1960 DDT was banned because it was killing our beloved Eagles. The Eagle is now making a comeback. There are about 30,000 Bald Eagles in Alaska and Canada, and about 2,500 in the 48 states. The Eagle has been our Symbol for the United States since 1782 for its ?fierce and independent image.? The Cheetah is an Endangered Species because people are hunting it for its fur, loss of habitat, and because people think it?s a pest.…
Whaling has been a controversial activity for some years now. Whales in today’s society have been regarded as “gentle giants” and highly intelligent animals, which is true. Some nations however, such as the Norwegian and Japanese have whaling deeply rooted in their culture and history. For many centuries, their ancestors took part in whaling as a means to sustain their life, livelihood and culture. I agree with the Norwegian and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption, given that the hunting of the whales is regulated to prevent over-hunting so that the whale population can replenish.…