Couples who play together...First Rifle Deer Season as a couple

You forgot that then you get to eat it... Yummy.

Look, in this world, every time we eat, inevitably SOMETHING has to die. It may be a plant or an animal, but something dies. Unless you want to just starve yourself to death or invent a way for us to rip out our digestive track and substitute some form of photosynthesis, just face it. These people are just more honest and forthright about these facts of our existence. We all come from a long line of survivors. We killed to eat and we still do. The only difference is that you get to pretend that we are above all that because we pay other people to do the killing for us.

Hunters almost without fail are in awe of the way that nature beckons them with its beauty. Hunters are just a part of nature, doing what our ancestors did. They are connected to the cycle of life in ways that most people do not.

Congrats on the deer! My friends and I went out this weekend - all weekend. The weather was brutal on Saturday but us three girls stuck it out. We saw a couple small bucks and a few does, but we're letting the smaller ones go. Hopefully it'll pay off in the years to come!

To all the people out there that just see us as Bambi killers. Maybe you should tag along with a seasoned hunter for a couple days. I'm not talking about someone that parks their truck at the edge of a field and waits for any deer to walk out. I'm talking about a HUNTER. Someone who spends months before season scouting deer; learning their feeding habits, bedding locations, and what paths they follow in between. Someone who will sit out in freezing temps while being drenched patiently waiting for the right deer. Some people may think we're crazy for doing what we do. But we're just passionate about it. And there's nothing more worth all your time and effort than when you see that perfect deer walk out into a clearing and he's standing broadside giving you that perfect shot. Until you've walked in our shoes, and seen what we see, and do what we do, you have no right to judge us. So keep it to yourself.

I'm not that bent about killing for meat. I understand that people kill and eat both meat and vegetables. I just have a tiny pet peeve about using the "harvest" word. Seems preposterous, like hunters trying to make their killing more palatable by calling it "harvesting." Don't get all upset, Lulabell. I'll comment as I see fit.