"Harvest," they ask?
Not in my experience. I find people roll their eyes at that one, because they recognize it as rhetoric.
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"Harvest," they ask?
Not in my experience. I find people roll their eyes at that one, because they recognize it as rhetoric.
After the apocalypse, they'll all want to know how to become hunters!:ninja:
Pretty much. Ive never met an actual hunter who used the term harvest. I have never hid what I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by welsh
Trying to hide or "soften" what hunting is is pointless. Anti-hunters dont care. Hunting is hunting is hunting, to both us and them (obviously different ends of the spectrum) and theres no middle ground. To those on the fence or neutral about it being honest is the best thing to do.
If you look up the definition of hunter you will find
Full Definition of HUNTER
1
a : a person who hunts game
b : a dog used or trained for hunting
c : a horse used or adapted for use in hunting with hounds; especially : a fast strong horse trained for cross-country work and jumping
2
: one that searches for something
No where in the definition is killing something. You'll find words like pursue, search, capture. So while you are looking for game your a hunter once its dead well what than. Got no problem saying I'm a hunter and as such am able to harvest from the wild.
Running to the dictionary won't help you here. Firstly, because the dictionary definition of "harvest" certainly does not apply, because game animals are not cultivated plants. Secondly, because dictionaries do not prescribe meaning; they describe it, and often weakly, since they usually address only the denotative and not the connotative meanings of words.
To hunt an animal carries the connotation of killing it; the very dictionary you drew your definition from defines "hunt" as "pursue for food," and presumably we do not intend to eat animals alive.
But if you really, really want to talk about definitions, I've got a Compact OED on the shelf behind me. I'll bet the word "hunt" gets about a full page in that thing.
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Originally Posted by flowerjohn
It doesnt get truer than that species.
Well the governing body for hunting in the province, the MNR, requires us to fill out a Hunter Activity and a Harvest Report...
You shot a bear you are required fill out a Harvest report.....
For the controlled Deer hunt you must fill out a Harvest Report....
etc etc..
They have a separate questionnaire to cover the Hunting Activities.
The 'Harvest' report covers the kill aspect of the hunt!!!
When you tire of beating this topic to death..maybe we should start another one;
"Do you call it a Gun or a Rifle ? ....pick a side"
Can hardly wait till September rolls around and I can go duck harvesting.Then October, yippee I can go north moose harvesting. And before you know it deer harvesting season will be upon us in November. Then for those of us who may not have had a very good harvest on the deer crop in November, we can try our luck again in muzzle loading harvesting season.By then I hope my hounds are in shape and I can start coyote harvesting.