Hardest Thing of All to Explain About Hunting

By NRAHQ

By Frank Miniter

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The big black bear came in under the shade of pines. He didn’t make a sound my ears caught over the raucous singing of red-winged blackbirds. I was in a stand 15 feet up a poplar tree and only knew the bear was coming because a little bear on the bait picked up his head and his body grew rigid.

I didn’t know if I would shoot, as it is not easy to shoot a bear. They are animated and powerful. They are kind and playful, and mean and brutal. A boar will kill and eat a sow’s cubs, if he can, and then the boar will breed with the sow to pass on his genes and she will let him. Bears are cruel and real, compassionate and mean. The males are violently hierarchical and will bully and fight each other and even kill for their place in the order they establish.

Watching them as you hunt them forces you to ask questions of yourself. First, you must concede that anthropomorphizing animals is filled with contradictions and dilemmas. The natural world does not abide by human-found morality. It …Read the Rest

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