Why Hunt?

I love animals, every animal on the earth.
Some I love to pet and play with. Others I
enjoy watching. Some animals need to be
controlled...and some need to be eaten to
keep us healthy!

I always feel a little sad when I kill one of God's cool creatures. But I know where our
family's meat comes from. After reading the news clip on the left, it's obvious that
some people actually believe that the grocery store MAKES meat! Some people
aren't very smart. We don't buy our steak from the store and pretend that nothing had
to die to feed us. My family knows that God put these animals on the planet for us to
eat, and if we enjoy hunting...GREAT!

Plus, the money mom saves at the grocery store she can use to buy me more bullets!

When there are too many of any kind of animal, more than the land can feed, the animal suffers because their
food supply becomes less and less as time goes on. The animal will starve to death. NOT COOL!

All states try to control animal over-population by issuing a certain number of tags to hunters each year. This
helps to guarantee the health of animals such as deer, elk, antelope, moose, and turkey.

There are other animals, like the wild hog, that aren't even supposed to be here.
They were brought to this country from Europe hundreds of years ago. They are
the biggest, toughest, meanest, and hungriest animal in the woods! They eat
anything and everything which leaves less for the deer, quail, turkey, pheasant,
cows, horses, and they are extremely destructive to farmers crops.

Lucky for us, wild hog tastes GREAT on the smoker!

PREDATORS ~ Coyote,
Bobcat, Wolf, etc....They're an
awesome challenge to hunt.
Super smart and tricky. They
kill lots of ranch animals every
year. Coyotes will attack a
full-grown cow, but they're
especially dangerous to the
new-born calves. Don't ever
let a grown-up tell you that
coyotes don't kill cows...I've
seen it happen!

Bobcat prey on turkey, quail,
rabbits, and our chickens!

This coyote hide wouldn't have
looked too great on our wall.

This has got to be the sickest thing
I've ever seen.....mange, it's a
disease some animals get from
being over-populated.

Ten minutes before this picture
was taken, this coyote was
munching one of our chickens.

He wouldn't have been able to
survive through the coming winter
without any fur.

Other animals, like the Beaver & Prairie Dog, need to be controlled because they can cause
lots of damage. Beavers will dam up rivers so folks & animals down-river won't get water.
Prairie dogs destroy grazing land for cattle and horses. Not only do they eat all the grass, but
they dig holes just the right size for a cow or horse hoof to get stuck.

In the past, in some areas where the prairie dog population was huge, poison was spread to
kill off the prairie dog towns. This ended up being a disaster! Not only were there lots of
dead prairie dogs, but all the hawks, eagles, coyotes, fox, buzzards, bobcat, owls, badgers,
and most importantly, the black-footed ferrets (now endangered) who eat prairie dogs were
dying from the poison as well.

Poison is a BAD THING! ........ Shooting prairie dogs is a GOOD THING! ........
Plus it provides a quick and easy meal for all the predators that eat them!