I live in Texas, land of the manly fella.

Lots of ‘canned hunts’ - animals fenced in behind ‘game fence’ with nowhere to go, really. Most hunts here you go to a deer lease, which is a big land area with lots of game, stay in someones ranch home, have someone wake you up, feed you, drive you to a deer blind with corn feeders, and let you go. They come back, pick you up later, and process (butcher) anything you may have shot. Typically you leave afterwards with Bambi wrapped up in 1lb chubbs, some backstrap tenderloin steaks, and whatever else is left of the poor trapped animal that you didnt blow to smithereens with your overpowered deer rifle.

None of what most rednecks refer to ‘hunting’ is an actual hunt. Its baiting and waiting.

one of the funniest short exchanges in True Detective S1, where Rust just casually wipes his ass on Marty's affected and insecure masculinity, while they are tracking Dewall/Reggie into the low country. it's too crass to bring up in polite conversation, but it kills me to even be reminded of it.

"You ever been huntin', Marty?"
"Uh, yeah. Ten-point buck, year before last. Fifty yards."
"I'm not talkin about sittin' in a tree house, waitin' to ambush a buck come to sniff your gash bait. I'm talkin about trackin'."
"Jesus, you're a prick."

the greater context is that Rustin's crazy survivalist/vietnam-vet father taught him bow-hunting in the Alaskan wilderness as a youth and Marty is the exact kind of weekend warrior bozo that trophy hunts in the easiest way possible, so now Rust can see the path taken by the killer and disable booby traps, while Marty is useless and needs to follow behind.

You're not a real fisher if you use bait. Coax the fish to bite the bare hook.

You know what? No. Not good enough. Forget the hook. Get in there with your hands.

makes perfect sense if you're subsistence hunting. which most American hunters are no longer doing.

man i love this stuff. i can polish off a whole bag in 10 minutes if no one stops me.

using a gun is already cheating. you're not a real hunter unless you wrestle and strangle the deer with your bare hands

I don't think there is anything wrong with it. You are looking at hunting as a sport. I am looking at hunting as a means of obtaining food. I used to go hunting for rabbit and pheasant mostly, for food. It's way more humane than modern livestock for chicken, pork, cows, etc, and for deer, it keeps the population to a manageable level since most of the natural predators were unfortunately wiped out.

This is one of the logical conclusions of turning hunting into a lifestyle. Eventually some people will realize that the waiting and stalking isn't really different than baiting in outcome, but it makes things quicker.

This kind of thing is actually less contradictory and is in many ways more honest than Honorable Hunter Culture (TM) even though it's still gross (im vegan). Food is actually plentiful for these people due to industrialization and imperialism so hunting is just a form of entertainment for them. It's not for subsistence and it's not part of any culture that deserves respect. They just like to shoot and kill things and go through the process of butchering an animal and justifying having a chest freezer so they can eat meat they actually prefer to eat less than the stuff they can buy at the supermarket. 90% of what they claim to like about hunting is just camping, too. It also integrates with military/veteran culture in buying a bunch of camo shit and practicing surviving in "the wild" or "off grid" for a short period, something much easier to accomplish with a single $20 bag of beans, $10 of water, and $20 of fuel.

It's all aesthetics, it's a hobby, it's a LARP for subscribers to toxic masculinity.

Makes me recall a native friend of mines father telling us how him and his brothers were getting skunked hunting and as a last resort they decided to 'hunt like white boys'. Sit in their truck with rifles waiting for an animal to walk by.

i thought baiting deer was illegal? or in that case can this be sold because it's not specified to be used for hunting?

So you're going to give the venison to hungry people, right?

Right?

I’m just a deer bait dirtbag, baby,

I’m just a deer bait dirtbag baby,

eat me as dry molasses, maybe,

She doesn’t know what she’s missing

Hunting is the only time these people actually sit in nature.

Just be glad they aren't hunting literal zoo animals.

I didn't even realise this was for killing deer I just upvoted because DIRT BAG is funny and this site has broken my brain

It's about sitting in a tree for several hours getting drunk and shooting something that's less than 10 feet away.

it's not the hunting they enjoy, it's the killing.

I'm not anti-hunting but this kind of shit is pathetic

stops chewing wait this stuff is for deer?

Just spray some mud on your tires/car and say you went hunting