City Boy Goes Hunting

[Rusty]

Our friend's brother lives in the city and has a Podcast.  He went hunting for the first time this past year and made a podcast about his experience.

 

http://www.outtherepodcast.com/episodes/2017/1/19/episode-26-instinct-to-kill

 

 

[Tomski]

That was a good story. I not trying to be a jerk about it but sounds like an illegally taken deer. Never heard anything about him obtaining a license.

[Rusty]

That was a good story. I not trying to be a jerk about it but sounds like an illegally taken deer. Never heard anything about him obtaining a license.

 

I thought the same thing too, based on the way he tells the story, but apparently this took place over several months and he took the class and had the proper permits and preparation.

 

His podcast was focused on the experience and emotions involved in the hunt and was written from a "non-hunter's" point of view so he overlooks things that we view as important.  

[Tomski]

That's great to hear,just wish he would of put that in the story. In the beginning of the story it sounds like he doesn't what is a loaded firearm and was is not

Edited February 21, 2017 by Tomski

[mazzgolf]

I'm listening to it now. Now, I get it - some people don't like killing things. But the question they ask in the beginning, "Would taking the life of an animal fundamentally change who he was?" What does it mean "fundamentally" change who he was? Does his think by taking a deer, or a turkey, or duck to bring home to eat will make him all of a sudden evil, barbarian, insane, what? What does "fundamentally" change mean here? What does he think is going to happen to him for goodness sake!

 

Does he "fundamentally" change when he buys that pound of sliced turkey at the local NYC deli? That was a live animal at one point right? I guess if he's a vegan or something that might not have any force, but for most people who think its barabaric to hunt, they don't have any problems walking into their grocery store and picking up chicken on a styroform plate wrapped in plastic - and yet, that animal probably had a worse life than the turkeys running around the woods right now and to make it worse, they had someone else do the killing for them - they don't even have to get their hands dirty, proverbially and literally speaking.

 

Anyway, I'm willing to listen to the rest of this. I just find it very elitist by the questions they are asking up front - almost like.. "how could I EVER kill something - its so barbaric and inhumane ... But.. OKayyyy... I'll hold my nose, lower myself from the ivory tower and live amongst the pheasants for a short time just to see what this is all about."

[mazzgolf]

"Guns and knives and other tools of violence"  This guy sounds like a typical NYC liberal

 

I wonder if, when he picks up that carving knife when he goes to carve that Thanksgiving turkey, that he wonders how could he ever use a tool of violence like this! The horrors!

[mazzgolf]

Well, at least he realized at the end that hunting isn't this God-awful experience that will fundamentally change a person forever! Still not sure what he thought was going to happen to him.

 

"I'm not a different person just because I took the life of another animal."

 

 

He ends with: "Maybe we are all capable of violence." He has a pretty odd definition of "violence" but OK, whatever. He is from Brooklyn after all, there is no real violence there for him to compare (/sarcasm). 

 

I'm still pissed though - I've been hunting for a few years and STILL haven't killed my first deer. Some NYC kid goes out and gets one on his first trip! What's up with that? 

[Rusty]

I'm still pissed though - I've been hunting for a few years and STILL haven't killed my first deer. Some NYC kid goes out and gets one on his first trip! What's up with that?