Lets poke the bear...

[MikePal]

. If you say you are a harvester, not only you mingle with the wrong crowd, but you have too much time for silly things....

Harvester ?? I think you misread something....yes you are a Hunter...and you Harvest Game as part of the Deer management program for the MNR.

I come from a line of hunters and the way I remember them they would laugh their a...s off right now and would probably make stupid jokes over all this.

So all these years that these old guys filled out the compulsory 'Harvest Report' for the MNR you never saw the link ???

[welsh]

Replacing hunting with harvesting in several other languages around the globe to describe the most ancient human occupation ... you would realize how silly that would sound.

Good point.

[Mr.Boiler]

If you would try to put this in a global/historical perspective, you would laugh your a...s off. Replacing hunting with harvesting in several other languages around the globe to describe the most ancient human occupation...you would realize how silly that would sound..

No doubt. As an example, in Quebec ( that large body of land surrounded by the rest of Canada) you won't find the word harvest on their website. Main reason is that they translate the regulations from French into English. So where you would think you'd find harvest they use kill. Actually they have two words for kill. Tuer and abattre. Depends on what is being described. So to translate harvest in the context we use, many languages don't have a word for it. The default word would be "kill." So really what should be asked isn't so much "do you hunt or harvest" but "do you kill or harvest?"
Personally, I kill everything from squirrel to moose. However in today's society to those faint of heart and lacking intestinal fortitude I say I harvest. Then I sit back and watch their cerebral gears jam and their heads explode.

[GW11]

After all these many years I have never once FELT the need to explain my 'Hunting' to anyone...

That comment was not aimed at you but more of a general statement. It's funny how people can be about it sometimes. I've seen guys more or less apologize for being a hunter when in certain company.

The only time I have ever really laid out an explanation was when (unbeknownst to me) my hunting was beginning to drive a wedge between our closest friends and my wife and I. They (our friends) had been taking gradual steps to give up meat and eventually even join PETA. As it turns out they were just completely clueless and ignorant when it came to the facts about hunters and hunting. They truly thought all hunters killed for nothing but the thrill and left all but the trophy to rot. They even believed that we must hate animals to be able to kill them.

After a few lengthy discussions they came to understand my side of things, went back to eating meat and even learned to fish and taught their kids to as well. If they lived closer to us I expect I would even be introducing the husband to hunting. I'm sure that it rarely turns out that way but that one particular example was a small win for us hunters I think.

Sorry for the slightly off topic ramble...

[Mr.Boiler]

That comment was not aimed at you but more of a general statement. It's funny how people can be about it sometimes. I've seen guys more or less apologize for being a hunter when in certain company.

The only time I have ever really laid out an explanation was when (unbeknownst to me) my hunting was beginning to drive a wedge between our closest friends and my wife and I. They (our friends) had been taking gradual steps to give up meat and eventually even join PETA. As it turns out they were just completely clueless and ignorant when it came to the facts about hunters and hunting. They truly thought all hunters killed for nothing but the thrill and left all but the trophy to rot. They even believed that we must hate animals to be able to kill them.

After a few lengthy discussions they came to understand my side of things, went back to eating meat and even learned to fish and taught their kids to as well. If they lived closer to us I expect I would even be introducing the husband to hunting. I'm sure that it rarely turns out that way but that one particular example was a small win for us hunters I think.

Sorry for the slightly off topic ramble...

I think I just shed a tear... Nice story! That's what I've gone thru numerous times. I'm sure we've all been there..

[redd foxx]

I have also heard hunters say that they "took" or "got" a nice buck last night. Not saying that is any better/worse but just shows the different lingo that is being used today.

[welsh]

"Take" has been around for a long, long time. So has "get," less formally.

[sakimano]

Take sounds like it was developed by someone someone who doesn't want to say kill out loud

[MikePal]

Don't forget 'got'..as "EwwEee..hey look Pa..I got me a bear " ...LOL...

[flowerjohn]

Or.... Bagged me a few!!