It's sad how both sides can draw lines, establish allegiances, attack and dehumanize the other... and see no fault in it.
Yet the facts do stand on their own for those with the slightest bit of discernment.
High fence hunts are a lower class of hunt. Fact. If the animal can't get away, and can essentially be chased around a big cage... then there's nothing about that which is on the same playing field as a hunt in the open. That's not even available for debate.
What we do matters. Notice how it's always the people engaging in the "lesser" forms of
any activity that complain about being looked down at? They get mad if everyone doesn't validate their actions. They are the ones saying how arrogant, sanctimonious, and elitist those of us that hold ourselves to a higher standard are. Those pursuing lesser forms are always trying to justify their lesser behaviors. They want to be made to feel good while doing it. Yet there's no reason for them to have the same good feelings as someone gets from a true wild hunt, whether private or public. They are choosing to deny themselves that the very moment they decide to shoot a pen raised animal.
Lucky for them, the vast majority of the population is on their side. Most want everything easy and they want the same recognition as if it were hard. Still, for those hunting high fence that don't try to justify it, and categorize it properly as lesser... there's nothing wrong with that. Especially if that's the only hunting they have access to. There's lots of reasons why the deer farm thing might be the only thing people can do, and those reasons are getting more plentiful every day.
As per usual, the only problem is when those hunting high fence think what they are doing is in the same category as those hunting the wilds. It isn't, and if someone insists that an untruth is truth, there will be, is, and should be a problem.
...and you can count me as another one that has noticed lots and lots of threads on this forum turning into a hammer bullet threads somehow, when they shouldn't. Though how fortunate they must feel to have cultivated a following such as they have. Yet are we really not going to acknowledge that this thread
literally is a hammer bullets thread, started by hammer bullets? If there's one place that the discussion of hammer bullets should be expected, is on a thread started by them. So I think this is probably not the proper place to admonish that, though there is no shortage of other threads where it would be quite fitting.
On the topic of the deer in question... at least it was a mature animal, which is more than I can say of most of the "trophys" I see posted on this site showing 1.5-3.5yr old animals getting blasted by the same guys every single year. Also, it goes without saying the critter could likely have been killed by literally any implement, including a pan fired musket. Personally, shooting big horn out of an enclosure has no value to me. I also will refuse to place any value or accolades on anyone else doing it unless extenuating circumstances are present. Something like a wounded veteran hunt, for instance. There are other circumstances that would make the hunt worthy as well. Enclosures that are tens of thousands of acres in size... that too starts to approach the "wild" hunt status... especially if everyone that hunts the huge pen only hunts the middle and doesn't use the artificial border zones at all.
That's the beauty of it: I can make my own judgement and no one else gets to have a say. When someone is unworthy of my praise, they can claim the contrary all they like... it won't move me. I carry a very high standard, and I expect to be held to the same.
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