New man but he shoots as a hobby ...

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He seems lovely but he's told me from the outset that he shoots as a hobby.
I don't have any major feelings about shooting one way or another , because I know so little about it but now told me that he's going on a big game shoot in Autumn and I don't know what I feel ... except maybe pity for the animals.
Would you get rid straight away?

Rabbits?
I'd not have a problem with that.

WTF!!!!! Get rid of the disgusting pathetic excuse of a man.

How could you even consider it - being with a man who kills animals for fun? You don't have any "feelings" about it? What about FACTS? The facts of trophy hunting, the facts of pheasant shoots and deer hunting. How can you not care about that?

Get a clue. You are ice cold, but the fact you are on here asking people's opinion makes me think many people would be disgusted by it.

Men who enjoy hurting animals often enjoy hurting women and children too.

He sounds ideal.

If you don't want him send him my way.

I imagine all big game hunters to be a bit like the person in this article (in Spanish). He planned to open a hunting museum.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/01/album/1569938981_231980.html

I don’t like it, but I do know that some animals are shot for reasons such as elderly, or over population. Elephants and big cats are prime targets for this. If there are too many elephants in one area, there isn’t enough food for all of them and there’s a chance starvation can occur. By taking out some of the excess,’it allows the population to thrive.

Like I said, I don’t like it but I understand it. Still wouldn’t date someone who did it though

I accept animals and birds are killed for us to eat so not sure I can get too judgy about being killed at a farm v being shot in the wild. I don't accept killing just for fun, also going to Africa to shoot big games just seems very...colonial...to me.

Grotesque human. Throw him back and shoot him along the way

A huge difference between a bush tribe killing for food to survive. A game hunter is a coward that pays to be driven to a area with animals either held in a large pen to shoot. Unless they are driven to a area to shoot a animal. Then they upload their sick pictures, and talk of being men. Real men don't do that I would never allow that sad excuse for my species near me or my house!!!

Hell no. Elk and pheasants for food I'd be ok with. Flying to Africa for the privilege of bringing down a beautiful animal and displaying it's tusks, no.

Nope I absolutely could not tolerate that. It would make me worry that they were a psychopath to be honest because it’s cruelty for fun and nothing else.

Probably has a tiny penis so he needs to get his jollies somehow and shooting animals, I expect, makes him feel like a real man - obviously that’s not how the majority of the population view it or indeed, makes him a real man.

This would be a deal breaker for me.

I wonder how many people that say they 'draw the line at murdering animals' are meat eaters!

Look OP, in some areas everyone hunts. Hunting is controlled and regulated. To have a licences they have to do A LOT. Several of my husbands family hunts. They can only hunt in certain seasons, can only hunt certain things each year and a certain amount, can tell pretty much instantly if the animal they're stalking has young even if not with them because they know the signs. They are not allowed to hunt animals with young. They bring back and stock the freezer with what they hunt to eat.

They keep the population under control (if too many are left because unhunted several would die a long slow death of starvation which is much more cruel), and its as free range meat as you can get.

Responsible hunters, fully licenced, follow all rules, eat what they kill, are not a problem. Trophy hunters are.

Can I add as well with all due respect your mad starting a thread on here about this and a bit naive. There is such a HUGE divide similar to fox hunting where it often turns violent and people get hurt from protesting ect. I'm not giving my view either way but if I was you I'd delete the thread and make up your own mind.

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable' (Oscar Wilde on fox hunting)

My first thought was, if it's pheasant etc and he knows how to do it humanely, clean and prepare and cook it to eat, then no problem. A decent wild-lived life and a clean end for a good reason. Better than battery farming and abbattoirs and a sanitised supermarket package that glosses over the fact that this had to happen so you could eat it. I'm a vegetarian, for context.

But that … God no. Vile people, so often pictured gloating over their kills which lived a trapped life and can't be eaten.

Utter deal breaker, suggesting something's wrong in his mind.

And the killing the unhealthy, and old is totally rubbish told to shut ppl up. Its big money, bigger than the tourist trade. Some are even bred for the sick business, and of course they don't talk about that!

These big game animals can be bred for canned hunts. Animals are over bred and reared badly before being shot in a confined area. Anyone who wants to kill for the pure enjoyment of a kill would be a big no for most people.
(No I'm not a veggie and would eat game, but don't eat much meat because I pay a premium for it depending on farming practice/source. If my personal ethics matter to anyone)

Just adding to the - no, no, no
shooting as a sport, fine
target practice fine
animals, as a big meat eater would be hypocritical to say no, but unless is something that would be then eaten, feels wrong - but if he’s from a big farmer community and it’s small animals- would be a grey area for me
elephants and lions in a controlled reserve - that crosses the line way too far for me - way too many lines in fact

Exactly. Elephants are very intelligent creatures, the kind of people who want to kill them for fun make my blood boil. I love elephants. No way would I be with man. (Sounds like the elephants have more emotional intelligence here.) Even lions have to be really desperate to attack elephants.

Big game would be a massive no from me.

DH hunts wild boar in France. It's a long tradition, it's done well, and every scrap is used and shared amongst the team. Since I eat meat, and they are hunting and eating the meat, I'm fine with that.

Hunting big game animals for a photo - sick.

If he eats what he shoots, that's fine.

Hunting banned - still they dig up cubs for practise, and plenty of young get ripped apart!

Me too, I read it exactly like that as I had no idea Big Game shooting was legal anywhere in the world anymore.