"The children of avid hunters routinely face questions and criticism about the hunting lifestyle they cherish. Billy Goes Hunting is the story of a young boy whose hunting beliefs have been challenged by his peers. In response to those challenges, on a trip to visit Grandfather's farm, Billy asks the question - "Why do we hunt?" - and his Grandfather explains the many reasons behind the heritage, sport and tradition of the hunting lifestyle. Reading this book to your children will allow you as a parent to explain all of these reasons in detail and provide a great platform to discuss any other questions your children might have...
Read more about this book here: http://www.billygoeshunting.com/index.html
Read about the author Matt Butler here: http://www.billygoeshunting.com/author.html
Name calling is fun, specially if it happens in the internet just don't take it in the field with rifles on... 🙂
Thanks for the Aussie perspectives on hunting.
Many years ago, there was a referendum in California about prohibiting the hunting of mountain lions. The main argument was that the usual trophy-hunting method is inhumane. First you set some dogs on a cougar scent. The dogs tree the big cat. Then the hunter shoots the cougar with a puny little .22, in order to minimize damage to the pelt. The mountain lion slowly bleeds to death in the tree, while the dogs are barking their heads off. Quite a sendoff, eh?
That argument sounded reasonable to me; so I voted for the prohibition. Yes, there are other ways to make cougar hunting more humane. For example, you could say that the big cats must be shot with hollowpoint bullets, having a specified minimum kinetic energy. However the alternative approaches were not on the ballot.
The cougar-hunting ban is not especially popular with ranchers and small-town residents in the Sierra foothills. Some 15 years ago, a woman was killed by a mountain lion in my local foothills. She was running (stimulates prey drive) on a trail BY HERSELF. If she had taken the obvious safety precautions, the tragedy may have been avoided.
The answer to the next question is no, I would not vote for a ban on deer hunting.
I'm surprised that hunting has nothing to do with environmentalism.
Does that men that the effort that I have put in to remove feral pigs, goats, rabbits, deer, cats, dogs etc from my bush block is for nought.
Like the control of weeds, the people of NSW have decided through the Govt that I have an obligation to control these feral animals on the land I manage to the benefit of the environment.
I suppose I could bait for these feral animals but this would expose the native fauna to a risk of being killed.
I don't hunt for fun, I hunt to control the local feral fauna as I am obliged to by law!
Now we have farm animals, who somehow are surviving on an uninhabited island, being hunted from yachts! What has this to do with the book about teaching your son to hunt properly? Off topic or what! Presumably, governments should expend great expense to prevent the odd rich yacht owner from illegal hunting. Of course, governments are just loaded with extra money because of all the taxes they collect. and we can always use more SWAT teams on this planet! What Looney Toons!
Cheers.....theoldhogger
"Much of hunting practises have zero to do with environmentalism or eating organic , free range animals."
That has got to be your stupidest and most narrow minded comment yet Ann.
Congratulations!
I realise you prefer petro-chemical plants to productive eco-systems but please put down your blinkers.
If everyone were hunting the bigger animals you'd have a problem with that too; no doubt.
Thanks for the book tip Jen.
I'll be sure to pick up a copy online.