Harvesting or killing?

[BlockBUD]

Do you say "harvesting" deer or "killing" deer? I am really against political correctness and think that saying "harvesting" deer is just to try softening what we do so the anti-hunters will think what we do is justified. You harvest plants; you kill game animals, plain and simple. JMO

[Huntsman27]

Simple enough. Harvesting relates to farming as far as I am concerned.

[tree dweller]

I'm harvesting meat. Plucking the animal from the woods just as I'd pluck an apple from a tree. If there were no meat to harvest from the animal- then I wouldnt ventrue into the woods to kill it. So yes, I am killing the animal- but my purpose is not for the kill- its for the harvest. So, I'm harvesting.

Politically correct? I dunno.
Meat eater? Uh huh.
Worried about justifying my actions? No.


-Jim

[tree dweller]

I think people have been using the term "harvest" in regards to taking animails long before PETA. It's a good question though.

According to Webster:

harvest
Function: verb
transitive senses
1 a : to gather in (a crop) : REAP b : to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (as salmon, oysters, or deer) for human use, sport, or population control c : to remove or extract (as living cells, tissues, or organs) from culture or a living or recently deceased body especially for transplanting

[Howitzer]

I kill big bucks and harvast doe's.

[jc502]

We hunt with the hopes of killing a deer. "Harvest" has gained popularity as the gentler description of what we do. I have always said "shot" i.e. "I shot a nice buck last evening."

I never say harvest. It doesn't feel right.

[AFhunter]

I agree with blockbud. It is way to soft and i don't think we should change the way we talk to make the anti-hunters feel better about what we as hunters do.

I don't harvest game I kill or shoot, not for pleasure but for food if they have a problem bring it on. I'll stop their and keep the rest of my opinions to myself so I don't make any one angry.

[Fred Bear]

I usually think/ or say I "got"

[102woodsman]

got, killed, or took. i never say harvest.

[answerguy8]

My Mom (rest her soul) would always ask me "Did you 'catch' any deer?".

[rzdrmh]

do a search here. this subject was recently discussed at length(couple of months ago?), to the point of being shut down.

i doubt many have the stomach for the debate again.

[Backwoods-Savage]

Does it really matter?

It's kind of like saying what you are going to do when you are heading for the bathroom (toilet, out back, etc.). Some are goint to relieve themselves, others are going to pee, some are going to water the horse, others are going to see a man about a horse, while some still are going to pay their taxes, etc. All may very well be going to do the same thing, but just use different words. So what does it really matter what you decide to call it? Kill it, harvest it, shoot it, down it or whatever, we are all doing the same thing and going to have some very good eating afterwards.

[Quicktripp]

:yeahthat: I LIKE IT

[Randy Kidd]

I can remember my Grandfather and Father back in the 50s saying they "Took" or will "Take" a deer, and that's the way I say it, for no other reason than that..If they had said "Kill" or "harvest" then I guess that's what I would say..They wern't exactly being PC either..My dad grew up in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia during the depression, So they had to "take" a lot of game for the table.

[dtg]

To me the difference between "killing" and "harvesting" is that when you "kill" something, you are not using any of the parts of the animal, you kill it and move onm leaving the carcass to rot. When you "harvest", you are using the animal. If I hit a deer with my car, I killed it. If I "got one" while hunting, I harvested it because I'm going to process it and put the meat in my freezer.

Personally, I never say I "harvested" a deer. I say I got one. An as for the above post regarding MOM asking if you "caught" one. I've found that most females refer to it in this manor.

[mi hunter1970]

Do you say "harvesting" deer or "killing" deer? I am really against political correctness and think that saying "harvesting" deer is just to try softening what we do so the anti-hunters will think what we do is justified. You harvest plants; you kill game animals, plain and simple. JMO\

Filling My freezer for the winter along with my nuts and my morels mushrooms.:corkysm55 and all that god left me to eat................................

[bigmike]

Harvest