Hunting: ?
Been fighting my urges to get back into hunting of late.
Looking at hunting not in the UAE, but back, at (I guess) home in New Zealand.
New Zealand has plenty of animals to hunt. Most of these, unlike places like Africa, are vermin and are from an endangered species list. Animals such as wild boar and rabbits, who destroy farmers crops, possums that just cause havoc, etc. I am not wanting advice on the ideological positions available in relation to hunting. I think it is excellent exercise and what gets killed, gets used for eating or otherwise. In any event, these vermin are, well, vermin, and NZ needs to get rid of them.
I am starting to stockpile a few things in NZ, looking at cars, etc., and I decided recently to investigate hunting apparatus. There are basically two choices. Bow or Rifle. The bow is quieter, it means you have to get closer (so requires more skill and exercise) and is infinitely safer than a rifle. The rifle, is potentially deadly to the user or people in the vicinity, but is very accurate with little skill and can kill things cleanly.
The last point is of concern to me. I don’t like to see animals suffer. If I had to shoot something like a fox I would want to pierce its heart and lungs with one arrow. Not make it suffer and squeal and die a horrid death that I wouldn’t wish to experience.
Bow hunting is a bit of a solitary endeavour which suits me. Is a bit less social, but also it requires a lot of skill to use effectively.
I think I will go with the bow. Like John Rambo…. and just get skillful before I point the bow at anything!
