Sports Hunting - "Sports" For Psychopaths - Hunting Cruelty Compilation Part 4

I think it was back in 2007 that youtube came along and it became a haven for hunters to "show off" their barbarism and killing. The kind of "enjoyment" only their psychotic kind can understand and I always remember back in 2007 I would watch other non-killers comment on their videos of anger and outrage but the hunters would laugh and mock about killing more bambies in that persons name. Before youtube came along and with hunting snuff videos( which of course most non-killers never bother looking at) the public always believed in the lies of hunters on how "ethical" they are and how the animals die a "quick painless death" (maybe with bullet 80% of the times) but DEFINITELY NOT with a bow and arrow this I have learned. I have seen quiet a few slob shotgun hunters who will shoot to cause pain and to laugh and had to wait for the deer to die as well but majority it was hit and dead exception is during "deer drive" on the other hand with bowhunting the animals death is by hemorrhaging which means to bleed to death. The shots are hardly ever "well placed" I often hear bowhunters say "way to the back" "too much to the front", "jump the string" "I think I got the gut", "He got scraped most sure he is alive still" (yeah sure). Now with youtube (A haven for hunters, "Outdoorsman" "sportsman" and many sadist monster organization we are learning. BTW Hunting forums are another great place to learn how they brag and "show off" their murder gallery of death and destruction.

Hunters talk about "overpopulation" and "starvation" yet they kill off all deers natural predators that does reduce deer's population and weed out the sicklyclick here

Deer Drive - is cruelty to animals and cause high deer vehicle accidents. (they even have bear drive I heard). click here


Here you can read more about bowhunting.click here

(Read the part about how hard it is to hit deer accurately.)

Overall anyone who can kill an animal simply for the fun of it are born with something missing in the brain. It must be genetic in their people for they marry their cousins and such (all jokes aside). When I watch these videos and I watch with my heart hurting, my anger intense but I never want to let the animals to have died in vain. I want them to know I am their voice and will educate the public.

Many of the recreational hunters laugh, they think it's a joke in the expense of the suffered animals and I am sure if there is a God and when the time comes for these monsters who pass off as "sportsman" dies or gets harvested they will have a lot to anwser to God for God did not approve of hunting. click here

Hunting Can Increase The Severity Of Wildlife Disease Epidemics click here

Deer Hunting Increases the Rate Of Deer Starvation click here


Are hunting industry deliberately producing deer for recreational hunting? plus what is "Compensatory Rebound Effect"?? click here


Stop Killing Bears!click here


Realities of hunting as a population control: Why there are so many deer today click here

Manipulating wildlife conservation for special interests
http://www.examiner.com/urban-wildlife-in-national/realities-of-hunting-as-a-population-control-why-so-many-deer

Wildlife Conservation has an agenda - our taxes ensure unsound managementclick here

Non-lethal road safety plans (streiter-lite proven to work) and othersclick here

Deer Contraception WORKS and IT WORKS WELL click here


I often hear from recreational hunters about "meat in freezer" after all that sadism. That is only a coverup and if you have ever seen the "back strap" they speak of it's laughable to think a whole living sentient being was murdered for fun for a mere flesh. We know their freezers are stuffed with market food as well and today we know that plant based diet is where we can get healthy protein, calcium, Iron and it's delicious and filling. click here

Gladiators Were Vegan -- John McDougall MD click here

Dr. McDougall -- Curing the Sickest People click here

Animal Protein -- Meat and Dairy -- Cause Cancer click here

Many hunters gets heart attack and they kill each other, themselves and even their children in hunting accidents. If you enjoy outdoors there are so much to do and one is NOT BY KILLING! KILLING FOR FUN IS FOR PSYCHOPATHS.

Lastly - I am no "PeTa" or "HSUS", I learned a lot on my own so save your peta joke for someone else. :)

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Only Soulless humans can kill with a bow and arrow Part 3 Compilation

Psychopaths
"....was, until 1980, the term used for a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct but masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal...Psychopaths lack a sense of guilt or remorse for any harm they may have caused others, instead rationalizing the behavior, blaming someone else, or denying it outright, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Dennis Rader, the infamous “BTK” (Bind, Torture, Kill) murderer—have manifested numerous psychopathic traits, including superficial charm and a profound absence of guilt and empathy."






Recreational hunters,  INTENTIONALLY go out there to kill for fun with no care in the world even with a stuffed fridge and belly. There is absolutely NO limit to the amount of cruelty that hunters can inflict upon the innocent sentient beings , they can spine shoot them for the video (got lots of that), they can shoot the animals in anyway they want because in American cruelty to forest animals is considered "sports", an "outdoorsman" or "conservation" ( all that euphemistic garbage). Now that part is cleared lets get to excuse #2. "Have you see what those wolves do to the animals rip them to shred alive" etc etc. Yes I have and horrible to watch but that is part of life and death in the wild, some animal will succumb quickly to the predators kill some may take longer but their killing is out of hunger and their prey are the weaker, the starving, the smaller to keep the strong healthy genes where the "sportsman" do the opposite. Now let me tell you what happens to the animals when sports hunters (bowhunters especially) leave the animals to die sometimes for hours and even overnight, you always hear the hunters says "I hope the coyote or wolves did not get to them" meaning the animals could not even defend themselves in their wound dying they were eaten alive by the carnivores of the wild and all because of sick humans who wants to kill for sports and trophy. The does and yearlings they wont bother to search if they know it would be too hard to find but the big antlered "trophy" deer yes they will go all out, even half eaten they will bring home the deer for the sake of the antler. Pitiful isn't it? In this video you will see many talk about the "wait" which means the recommended waiting time for the animal to die from bowhunting usually minimum of 30-45 minutes. Bowhunters tries to deny this to the public but I watch, I listen carefully to EVERY WORDS that bowhunters says and don't miss a thing. Is there any remorse or guilt from them? ABSOLUTELY NONE! Instead it's the high fives and fist pumping as they speak in whisper not to spook the stil alive but suffering deer any further. Imagine a human capable of cheering as the animal is dying, an animal with the same physiology of humans is dying some drowning in their own blood, hemorrhaging  to death or what ever horrific suffering that comes from a bow and arrow whether it's compound or crossbow all death to an animal by an arrow is never "quick" and it's the kind of death not one of these killers would ever want to experience.
Now lets talk about the fawns, yes they kill fawns with spots but in the hunting industry they want to make sure you get the female not the male for they need the male for future trophy deer. (click here) Plus they want to save enough food for the does to have more babies and the growing fawn buck for future killing (they call it fawn recruits). Yearlings too, yearlings are very close to their siblings but in the bowhunting public ( I especially witness the killings of babies by bowhunters) they will injure or kill the button buck but mostly the female yearling because I see other hunters comments of anger not because of the yearling killing but because of the "taking out" of "future trophy deer". When one of the sibling is injured or killed the other will follow as if grieving. About does (female deer) Bowhunters have no qualms about killing does with babies http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-doe-right-here-came-looking-for.html  and does are very protective of them too and still the high fives and the whisper of "yahoos" for the camera. Today's hunting I like the public to know is NOT about survival and food, some may eat the "backstrap" (what a joke) I had seen it and it's so laughable and the rest are either dumped to the pantries or the forest ground. The killers (sports hunters) not for a moment think that that the unsavory part of the deer carcass is where CWD is and they continue to poison the pantries.(click here) as the Government lies on the serious danger of CWD (Prions) is to humans. We do have many vegetarian "feed the hungry" but the Government who gets loads of money from the NRA never speak of people like "Food Not Bombs" click here

because they are about feeding the poor vegetarian food with love and compassion and to stop the war. Their message is to use the money to feed the poor rather then to kill people in the war. I am getting off subject but that is part of the reason why so many deer tags are able to be sold because there is the pantries to "give" to not caring whether there is possiblity of all kinds of wildlife diseases such as bovine TB, parasites, worms (several types) and the most dangerous of all Prions from CWD which is now in 13 states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The deer numbers are here because of hunting and the number continue to rise so does the deer vehicle accidents. The hunting industry knows about Compensatory Rebound Effect (CRE) meaning that the surviving deer will have more food and food is what cause more fawn births (twins and triplets) where if there is not enough food the womb will "eat up" the embryo or fail to ovulate. It's all part of the natural eco-balance that the hunting industry destroys. Then of course we all know they kill off deer's natural predators such as the coyotes which they call "varmints". The hunting industry despise any animals that will naturally reduce the numbers and may even eat that trophy deer they been eyeing to get for couple of years like serial killers do with certain victims. click here

Why are there so many wounded and crippled deer ? Why are there always bad shots where it takes deer , elk and other large hunted animals to die a slow excruciatingly painful death even if the bowhunters think they are "Robin hood" when practicing on a non moving object?  


Jumping the String



"Animals have an extraordinary ability to dodge arrows. This attribute wasn’t understood until the behavior of white-tailed deer was captured on videotape and studied carefully. Deer can take flight with uncanny speed at the slightest hint of danger, particularly unnatural sound, including the sound of a bow twanging. This phenomenon is called “jumping the string.”

"A deer may appear broadside when it is actually quartering slightly toward, or away. And that angle could mean the difference between a double-lung or single-lung, lethal or non-lethal hit. If I had a dollar for every deer I recovered that I mistakenly thought was broadside when I shot, I could buy a dozen good arrows."

Disposition
A deer's behavior may influence when, or even if, you should shoot. Precise numbers don't exist, but we know that a whitetail's reflexes are extremely quick. Sound travels at 1,125.79 feet per second (fps). Meanwhile, even the fastest compound bows spew arrows at less than half that rate. This leaves a deer ample time to react, particularly if it's alert, which is often the case when rattling, calling aggressively or when the deer catches sight or scent of you. It's a judgment call you often have to make instantaneously, but a better option may be to wait until the deer relaxes, or pass up the shot, particularly if it's a longer shot. Alert deer reduce your maximum effective range. The farther away a deer is, the more time it has to react. A well-aimed arrow could be far enough off the mark to result in a clean miss, or worse.
A deer's reflexes can sometimes be so fast even a well-placed hit can result in some weird and unexpected results. I've seen arrows enter a deer dead on the mark and exit at angles that defy the laws of physics. Sometimes it's the result of deflection off bone.
Other times, it's purely reaction speed."

http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/tactics/BH_wounding_1109/index1.html


Why are there so many wounded and crippled deer ? Why are there always bad shots where it takes deer , elk and other large hunted animals to die a slow excruciatingly painful death even if the bowhunters think they are "Robin hood" when practicing on a non moving object? Here are few of the reasons besides the fact that man are not meant to kill. "Men" who thinks they are part of "predator and prey" is a joke !!



Jumping the String

"Animals have an extraordinary ability to dodge arrows. This attribute wasn’t understood until the behavior of white-tailed deer was captured on videotape and studied carefully. Deer can take flight with uncanny speed at the slightest hint of danger, particularly unnatural sound, including the sound of a bow twanging. This phenomenon is called “jumping the string.”


"A deer may appear broadside when it is actually quartering slightly toward, or away. And that angle could mean the difference between a double-lung or single-lung, lethal or non-lethal hit. If I had a dollar for every deer I recovered that I mistakenly thought was broadside when I shot, I could buy a dozen good arrows."


Disposition

A deer's behavior may influence when, or even if, you should shoot. Precise numbers don't exist, but we know that a whitetail's reflexes are extremely quick. Sound travels at 1,125.79 feet per second (fps). Meanwhile, even the fastest compound bows spew arrows at less than half that rate. This leaves a deer ample time to react, particularly if it's alert, which is often the case when rattling, calling aggressively or when the deer catches sight or scent of you. It's a judgment call you often have to make instantaneously, but a better option may be to wait until the deer relaxes, or pass up the shot, particularly if it's a longer shot. Alert deer reduce your maximum effective range. The farther away a deer is, the more time it has to react. A well-aimed arrow could be far enough off the mark to result in a clean miss, or worse.

A deer's reflexes can sometimes be so fast even a well-placed hit can result in some weird and unexpected results. I've seen arrows enter a deer dead on the mark and exit at angles that defy the laws of physics. Sometimes it's the result of deflection off bone.

Other times, it's purely reaction speed."

http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/tactics/BH_wounding_1109/index1.html


The difficulty in shooting arrows accurately offers a partial explanation for the high woundingand crippling loss. Unlike bullets, which fly in a more like linear path, arrows loop. As Benkesays: they rainbow. Whereas a gun hunter takes dead aim at an animal, an archer mustestimate the distance from the target and adjust the shot to compensate for the rainbow trajectory of the arrow.

Considering that bowhunters often shoot from tree stands or position themselves on slopedterrains, they become anxious when an animal is finally within range. This is known amongbowhunters as “buck fever.”

This beautiful buck deer was left to suffer and die overnight, body ended up half eaten by coyote most likely buck was still alive when he was attacked  but "thank God" for the bowhunter the rack was still intact and he made sure to find that deer.



Just close your eyes and imagine a death like these
Gut Shot Deer - Imagine yourself dying this way! click here
Spine Shot Deer - The terror for deer, the excitement of cruelty for bowhunter click here


"Ethical" Hunter says "let the deer lay up and die"

Bowhunters damning comments of killing does, pregnant does and fawns.click here
Bowhunters says "Rage is like hitting a deer with an ax" click here

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It's 2011 We do not need barbarism in our parks and forest. We have tons of choices to "manage" deer and to co-exist peacefully with them.  They too are a beautiful creatures of God and do not deserve the pain and suffering from sick human monsters.

Deer Contraception Works and IT WORKS WELL according to Jay Kirkpatrick and Wildlife Contraception expert. click here

(Reminded the State Wildlife Agencies has their own "biologist" that will mislead the public on the effectiveness of Wildlife Contraception obviously because they want the abundance of deer to sell tags each year and rake in those blood money). 

Compensatory Rebound Effect (CRE) is why killing does not work . click here

Few blogger that everyone should read by Katherine McGill (She is not an "anti-hunter and neither am I)  We undertand there are those who do have to hunt for survival but recreational hunting today is NOTHING about that. 

 Realities of hunting as a population control: Why there are so many deer today click here

Wildlife Conservation has an agenda - our taxes ensure unsound management
 click here

‎"The judges agreed, saying the hunting laws exempt people from animal mistreatment charges. "

("mistreatment" meaning cruelty charges)

Gut Shot Deer - Imagine yourself dying this way!

Gut Shot Deer - Imagine yourself dying this way!

Gut shot is a slow and agonizing way for the deer to die often taking up to 12 hours of more. The animals die from their own poison as you can see from a bowhunters tips on finding gut shot deer.

"Stomach wounds kill through a combination of blood loss and septicemia, or blood poisoning. The latter results when stomach contents, including bacteria and toxins, enter the blood stream. This, in turn, results in septic or toxic shock, which causes decreasing blood pressure and gradual organ failure. Stomach wounds are nearly always fatal, but a gut-shot deer can live a long time and can travel a long way if pushed (and will leave little, if any, blood)"

http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/tactics/BH_wounding_1109/index1.html

"A stomach shot is also fatal, but it could take 24 hours or longer for the deer to die. Give this animal at least three hours to bed down and follow up for the kill in the daytime. Make sure to circle ahead from the downwind side."

Because gut shot deer can travel far they will most likely never be retrieved rather they are killed by predators who can smell their wound. In this video you will see the bowhunter paunch hits a deer then leaves her over night to track

gut shot didn't even recover the deer

Shoots a spike deer in gut and leave him to suffer and die, he even makes mockery that he just does not feel like retrieving the deer and " probably will die  in some anti-hunters yard"

There is absolutely NO mercy or compassion from bowhunters just immense pain and suffering for the animals.

More on gut shot comments from hunters forums and websites.

http://www.michiganwalleye.com/forum/showthread.php?t=354977

"Gut shot deer rarely bleed externally! Yes there is an entrance and exit wound, but the intestines and stomach often close them up. Besides, the gut area offers very few arteries and blood vessels to bleed.

Once the paunch (stomach) is ruptured, semi digested food and stomach bacteria enter the body cavity. This makes the deer sick and it will eventually lay down where it will expire after a long time. Blood loss is minimal and slow and will almost always be internal. These reasons are why one should wait a minimum of 8 hours before attempting to track a gut shot deer. "

"I felt fortunate to have taken a nice buck, but I was equally grateful for being able to see the deer drop within sight. So often that's not the case. Even with the best of hits, the deer runs out of sight, leaving us to wonder and worry...Stomach wounds kill through a combination of blood loss and septicemia, or blood poisoning. The latter results when stomach contents, including bacteria and toxins, enter the blood stream. This, in turn, results in septic or toxic shock, which causes decreasing blood pressure and gradual organ failure. Stomach wounds are nearly always fatal, but a gut-shot deer can live a long time and can travel a long way if pushed (and will leave little, if any, blood)"

http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/tactics/BH_wounding_1109/index1.html

This is others heartless comments about gut shot

huntwithairguns

3 weeks ago

I let one of my does lay over night in September, coyotes got it before I did...

KSBOWHUNTER

3 weeks ago

Good job, you did the right thing in leaving her for the next day. She proved again that a gut shot deer if left alone will usually be found near a water source. Unfortunatly the coyotes are so bad here that a deer left overnight is usually coyote food by morning :(

medicjimr

3 weeks ago

Congratulations looked like she was about to cross over the redbank creek

More heartless comments about gut shot here.

http://www.michiganwalleye.com/forum/showthread.php?t=354977

It's all "congratulation" "good job" but these people do not feel any remorse to the suffering of the animals. People like us who are compassionate can feel their suffering and we would never put another living beings thru something we would never want to feel ourselves that is why bowhunters and sports hunters are all hearltess monsters!

The picture below shows what happened overnight to a wounded deer in Kansas.

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A Veterinarian's Perspective on Bowhunting

What Happens to the Animals?

Bowhunters contend that although crippling is undesirable, most wounded animals do not die agonizing deaths, but can quickly recover. They feel that the broadhead arrow inflicts clean wounds that heal quickly. Bowhunters also like to suggest that a broadhead arrow is an efficient killing tool, with brand names such as the Ripper, Penetrator, and Terminator Doublecut.

The pretense seems to be that somehow animals develop hemophilia the instant they are struck; thus, they bleed to death: Stop all body functions with incredible speed—within 30 seconds in most cases, according to The Complete Book of Bowhunting. Contrary to these claims, most crippled animals do not recover from their wounds; rather, they routinely contract peritonitis or a septic infection.

Broadheads do not inflictclean wounds; they generally inflict dirty wounds. The main cause of infection,according to Benke, is today’s multi-bladed broadhead. As these arrows penetrate an
animal’s body, numerous hairs are clipped, often caught in the slots of the arrow blades, and distributed throughout the wound channel. The external wound opening then becomes sealed due to clotting and dried blood-matted hair. The bacteria from the clipped hairs begin multiplying in the wound. The amount of bacterial infection emanating from the wound depends on the wound location.

The animal’s general health is also an important factor affecting the time period it takes for the animal to finally die. Death eventually results one to two agonizing weeks later.




“The exciting Warhead starts with its
bone shattering Tri-Cut Tip … that
explodes flesh and bone away so the
three surgically sharp stainless blades
can open a larger, more lethal
entrance/exit hole.” (From
manufacturer’s catalog)


In order for an animal to bleed to death, its blood-clotting system must be overwhelmed. To overwhelm this system, the broadhead must penetrate the heart or sever one or more major blood vessels. If these are not lacerated, an animal cannot bleed to death— the body’s natural blood-clotting system sees to that.

Benke estimates that 20% to 30% of deer struck by arrows die from hemorrhaging and that 10% sustain wounds that probably heal, leaving 60% to 65% of the deer to die from infections.
Benke asserts: the average time in which broadheads cause death must be measured in weeks or days rather than in seconds, minutes, or even hours. Sadly, it is not only the crippled animals who suffer, but those hit and retrieved successfully as well. According to experts clean kills are a rarity. While the deer who are hit and retrieved successfully are not fortunate, they fare better than those who have been wounded and left to suffer. A comment from an experienced bowhunter who writes in Fins & Feathers magazine

(March 1987) assumes that the elapsed time between the initial wounding of an animal
and the animal’s final death is exceedingly long—even if the hit occurs in vital (heart or
lung) areas. The rule of thumb for bowhunters has long been that they should wait 30 to 45 minuteson heart and lung hits, an hour or more on a suspected liver hit, 8 to12 hours on paunch hits, and follow immediately on hindquarter and other muscle-only hits to keep the
wound open and bleeding. Bowhunting literature serves as its own indictment. The book Bowhunting for Whitetails says: It’s important to give them (the deer) time to stiffen and die - 20 minutes at a minimum, 30 minutes even better... just hang back and have a smoke. There is absolutely no sure way to kill a deer instantly with a bow!

The broadhead arrow is notorious for its inherent inefficiency and singular capacity to
cripple, wound, inflict pain, and prolong the suffering of animals. All 50 states have banned the .22 caliber rifle for big-game hunting because of its inadequate killing power. Given that .22 rifles are far superior to compound bows in terms of killing capability, one can infer that states have failed to institute and implement responsible and consistent hunting regulations.

A Veterinarian’s Perspective on Bowhunting

According to Steve Nusbaum MA, DVM, if the damage to the vital area is less than
severe, and if an arrow nicks an auricle rather than cuts through both ventricles, the
blessing of shock-induced analgesia (a deadening or absence of the sense of pain
without loss of consciousness) to set in can take a long time.

Consider the physiology of the deer who dies by suffocation, choking on its own blood,
or the deer who dies after an arrow penetrates the diaphragm. The presence of a highly
sophisticated nervous system in deer certainly suggests that their nervous systems
perform the same functions as human nervous systems. The presence of the same
neurochemicals in deer as in humans similarly shows that they feel pain as we do.

In recent years there has been a major shift in the way the scientific community
understands the mental life of animals, particularly mammals. Presently, researchers in
a variety of animal-related disciplines generally agree that in addition to being sentient,
mammals are consciously aware and have feelings and emotions; even though they are
more rudimentary than those of humans.

Mammals, including deer, are presently understood by scientists to have the capacity to
think. Numerous studies indicate that the mental harm that is done to an animal placed
in a stressful situation may be more injurious than that done to a person in a similar
situation because the animal’s mind, in varying degrees, focuses more on the immediate
than the distant. Thus, an animal, unlike a person, is less aware that the present anxiety
it is experiencing may be temporary. Not only does bowhunting cause real physical pain and suffering, the deer’s mental suffering is just as real, and in its own way, may be just as painful.

Bowhunting as a Deer Management Tool

The use of bowhunting as a method to control deer population densities is ineffective:
*In a February 1988 report on bowhunting at Rock Cut State Park in Illinois,
Department of Conservation biologist Tom Beissel, states: …this report recognizes that bowhunting has never been an effective tool for deer control…
* In Texas, which has more deer than any other state, Parks and Wildlife biologist
Horace Gore comments: You cannot call bowhunting a population control
measure, it is a recreational pursuit. In fact, he adds: We do not advocate
bowhunting when the objective is controlling the population.
* According to John Parker, Area Wildlife Manager for the Minnesota Department
of Natural Resources, only 3 deer were killed from the 29 bow permits issued in
the 1989 bow hunt in the Minnesota River Valley Area.
* Larry Gillette, Wildlife Biologist for Hennepin Parks, acknowledges that
bowhunters fail to retrieve a substantial number of deer they shoot and does not
advise the use of archery hunting to control deer populations.
* The Eagan City Council decided in 1993 not to allow bowhunting. This was
largely due to FATE’s (Friends of Animals and Their Environment) efforts. An
article in Bowhunter’s Hotline (Sept. 1993) regarding Eagan’s decision reported
that the Mayor of Eagan had supported bowhunting in the past; however, his
mind was changed about the sport due to the information provided by FATE.
The Mayor of Eagan, Tom Egan was quoted in the article as saying: FATE
provided me with a lot of valuable information, and I have always supported
bowhunting, but I no longer feel the rationale that it’s an efficient management
tool outweighs the safety and cruelty aspects. Also, the Mayor was reported as
saying: I think if we set loose every bowhunter in Eagan, we still wouldn’t reduce
the deer population, and the city would be less safe. He added: It isn’t feasible
for every bowhunter to shoot and retrieve five deer. They might each shoot and
wound five, but not shoot and recover five.

The above listed items clearly show the inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of bowhunting
as a population control method and deer management tool.

The Inescapable Conclusion

Those who indulge in the antiquated bow-and-arrow type of hunting knowingly commit
each living creature they hit to lingering agony, and this is true whether the wound is
eventually fatal or not. These animals endure prolong suffering before they collapse and
die.

As this report has shown, the following facts about bowhunting are inescapable:
* Bowhunting is inhumane and wasteful.
* Bowhunters do not want to talk about the wounding issue and archery wounding
is the most denied problem in bowhunting.
* Wounding and crippling losses are inevitable.
*Shot placement is, for all practical purposes, random due to the difficulty in
shooting arrows accurately. There is absolutely no sure way to kill a deer
instantly with a bow
* More often than not, poorly hit deer are lost and not recovered.
* The main cause of infection in the wound is today’s multi-bladed broadhead
arrow
* Almost all abdominally shot deer die a slow death from peritonitis with the
average time of death measured in agonizing days or weeks rather than in
minutes or hours.
* The use of bowhunting as a method to control deer population densities is
ineffective. Bowhunting is not a population control measure; it is a recreational
pursuit.

Humans are provided with the capacity to imagine for a variety of reasons. And we have
the capacity to imagine empathetically for a singular reason—we can appreciate the pain
of others without experiencing it firsthand. Balancing the needs of humans and animals
is a difficult and complex task. If communities decide that deer herds must be managed,
it is reprehensible to reduce the taking of animal life to a recreational activity for
bowhunting enthusiasts. Instead, a truly humane solution must be found—whether that
solution is to hire professional sharpshooters to observe the herd, taking the old and
infirm, or to implement an immunocontraception program for the herd.

About the Author: This report was compiled by Linda Hatfield, a Minneapolis resident and current ExecutiveDirector of HOWL (Help Our Wolves Live). She has extensive experience with wildlife and wildlife issues, including working with the University of Minnesota Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and most recently The Raptor Center to rescue and release birds of prey, working with FATE (Friends of Animals and Their Environment) on hunting and deer management issues, and as a former lobbyist on wildlife issues with the Minnesota Legislature. She has testified about deer management issues and other wildlife issues in many communities and has served on many citizens’ task forces.