Hey Torpedo

Torpedo, "archery photo" c'mon, this isn't a picture of someone hitting the bullseye and then splitting that arrow in half...LOL... I would hope that you would agree that there is a vast difference, between writing "I shot and killed a buck with my bow" versus actually seeing the dead animal displayed. The "stuff" that gets posted here is actually pretty tame, we've managed to keep it pretty civil.

As usual spaceage said his two cents better than I could have, but it sums up about how I feel.

Thank god you didn't see my thread answering any and all questions from the golfho's crowd.   

Very nice Eagleone.  That's a buck to be proud of for sure.... it looks like it would qualify for the Pope and Young Record Book.

Everyone around here hunts for the meat too.  If you don't, you can donate your deer to the local locker and they will process the meat and give it to charity,soup kitchens, low-income families, etc...  It is a State sponsored program.  NOTHING goes to waste around here.  There are no direct processing costs to the hunter.  I think the program is funded with a portion of the hunting license fee... but I'm not sure about that.

The number of people hurt and killed in Iowa by vehicular accidents involving deer has really escalated in the last decade or so.  Hunting is a must or nobody would be able to drive anywhere without hitting one.  Thousands of deer end up as roadkill in Iowa every year.  The "peak" year for roadkill was around 2003 and then the State DNR started letting folks purchase more licenses.  I hit one in the mid-1980's on the Interstate Highway at 70 mph.  It wasn't pretty.

Yep, ditto what Eagleone said on all accounts.

Does it have to be gory to be found offensive?
*edit* Websters Dictionary definiton #4 unpleasant or disagreeable* So a picture can be gory without blood all over it or arrows sticking out of it.
Taste is a very subjective word, maybe some people would find that image tasteless.
Difference of opinion, you seem to be taking this very personally. I don't hunt, never have never will, but I'm not stopping you, I just don't want to see a dead animal displayed without warning, I only asked (nicely I thought) a very simple question.
Since I didn't say thank you, this remark has a bit of an edge to it. And I've seen you do this before, take a deep breath Torp. I am not the enemy.

Mr. McDuff, I do agree that, compared to another forum that most of us are at least familiar with, most things that are posted here are tamer - especially since the more recent consensus that we want to keep this site nice, to keep it from being listed as an adult site, and etc.  It's also nice that you guys are conscious of using the warn tags and NSFW when you do.  For that, I deeply thank you all.  However, while tamer, it's not to say that there haven't been things posted that I wish hadn't been displayed on my monitor.  But it is very nice that it doesn't happen too often.

Yes, there is a vast difference between saying "I shot a deer" and showing a picture of it.  I think that's why Mr. ForeDucks directed the thread to Mr. Torpedo - because he knew that Mr. Torpedo would be the interested party.   But Mr. ForeDucks - and Mr. Eagleone, too - was also careful not to post a horrendous, graphic, obscene picture that could be more than easily offensive to others that might see it.  I have grown up around hunting and have seen most of the processing and etc.  Yet I have seen pictures that have been taken (by others, not us) - or rather shown - with, um, judgment lacking.  I won't go on to describe the photos because I don't think you'd care to hear what they looked like.  I agree with Mr. Spaceage that hunting should be for the food it helps provide and not for sport.  I do, however, enjoy seeing pics, of a hunt - especially of a hunt that is most memorable and special to someone.  Yet, for those that don't hunt, I can understand how a picture - any picture, including those that are clean pics - of a dead animal might be something they don't want to see.

The purpose of this post, Mr. McDuff, is just that I know Mr. Torpedo and I have a different way of saying what we mean, and I hoped mine might be clear and reasonable to you.

(And, just in case it wasn't clear in my post, I was just add the "Mr" to everyone screen names to keep the post light and not because I'm trying to be firm or some such thing.)

I succeeded!