If my comments below offended vegetarians, I apologize. However, I'm fed up with this "Holier than thou" attitude a few choose to radiate. Our Guest obviously has no idea of how archery hunting works and lives in a place where the truly deadly animals were rendered extinct by his ancestors.

I do not live in such a place (nor do I hunt much anymore). But I carry a weapon when I hike into the mountains, not to kill an animal but to frighten them off if possible. Obviously our Guest has never come face-to-face in the wild with a mountain line (cougar, puma) or a bear of any sort, not to mention even a rabid raccoon or skunk or fox (rabies in endemic in the US). Yes, I do my best to prevent such encounters by making noise, etc. ("bear bells" are very effective, by the way).

I will hunt. I have nothing against ethical and legal hunting. But I am a "meat hunter", not a trophy hunter.

And I wish that this thread would now go back to archery.