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To: bentway who wrote (2838)	12/20/2016 4:00:32 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354608

yes, my experience as well. As a young lad guns were the toy of choice. Had my crossman bb gun with the CO2 cartridges. But the next step up was the pump pellet gun. Later when my family moved to TN and lived with relatives there I did some hunting with a shotgun, just squirrels and rabbits. I had no guilt about that because folks ate squirrel and rabbit for food. But I soon lost the interest in "hunting". My first and only rabbit I killed, one of my uncles showed me how to clean it. He nailed the carcass to a tree and ripped it's skin off. He told me the next rabbit I killed it was my job to rip the skin off... Of course, that being said, that's still a much more humane manner in which to kill animals for food, as opposed to the factory farms where animals live and die in cages their whole life

To: bentway who wrote (2838)

12/20/2016 6:13:03 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 354608

Me too. I was hunting in December on Douglas Island and it was cold. I had been hunting for days for deer.

All deer were legal. A small fawn popped up and looked right at me. I shot it with a 30-06. After I shot it, its parents came back to look for him and I shot at them to.

But worse I once shot at a "marmot", just to watch it die.

I did a complete 180 and started communing with trees-lol.

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>>I shot and killed a bird with my pellet gun when I was young, just to see it die. Don't know why I did that but, after that I didn't want to kill things.<<

I had the exact same experience, except it was a BB gun and I didn't shoot it to see it die, I just shot it because I wanted to see if I could hit it. When I did, I felt bad, and didn't shoot any more birds. Until I grew up and shot dove with a shotgun. At least I ate them, spitting out the lead pellets as I encountered them.