A Personal Gripe

[Swamp Fox]

I get what you are saying, but really, who cares? Life's too short to have words bring me down

Words mean things.

Dictionaries are not the authorities they used to be. You can look it up.

The over-use and misuse of "harvest" takes the *wild* out of hunting, which is never a good thing.

 

[Blowdowner]

Use harvest in writing but never speak it out loud. Unless you are forced to talk to an anti. I think harvest is smartly chosen by guys who have killed piles of animals and are not delusional.

 

[Pharmseller]

Kill.

That’s what I’m doing.

Call it what it is.




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[Swamp Fox]

Kill.

That’s what I’m doing.

Call it what it is.




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lol ...

This prolly pulls at the heartstrings of all the father-rapers on here ...


And yet "kill" is the honest word.

 

[RadialJett]

Rookies.

After I harvest a deer I peel it and mill most of it into sausage. I may julienne some into jeky too.

I also love a day out on the water. Nothing beats picking some fresh tuna. After I husk ‘em I always knead some with celery and mayonnaise, it makes a great salad.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

For the better part I agree we don't harvest animals, with one exception. In the early 2000"s I was up in the Central Valley farm land in Ca. I was riding on a International harvester and I was allowed to drive it for a while, well I ran over some pheasants, no idea why they didn't take off, so I did harvest some pheasants that day.

 

[Backyard]

For the better part I agree we don't harvest animals, with one exception. In the early 2000"s I was up in the Central Valley farm land in Ca. I was riding on a International harvester and I was allowed to drive it for a while, well I ran over some pheasants, no idea why they didn't take off, so I did harvest some pheasants that day.

This is the buck my brother “harvested” this year. Had his eyes on the grain cart as he was unloading. Never saw it before it was in the header.

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[BAKPAKR]

This is the buck my brother “harvested” this year. Had his eyes on the grain cart as he was unloading. Never saw it before it was in the header.

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How difficult was it to get that out?

 

[Backyard]

How difficult was it to get that out?

Simple. Just reverse the header drive. Then pick up the parts.

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[Wyobohunter]

You don't like people trying to show respect for the animal they just killed instead of a gory photo with the tongue hanging out?

I have never heard that perspective before.

I think kill photos are disrespectful, cleaned up or not; that’s me and I’m not applying an expectation to anyone else.

 

[Wyobohunter]

We’ve turned into a nation of betas, can’t afford to hurt any feelings

Beta? That’s just silly. This thread isn’t about wolf behavior or Jordan Peterson’s lobsters, so I’ll leave it be and just let you know that it isn’t “Alpha” to not understand your own language. If it weren’t for linguistic evolution we’d still communicate with grunts and clicks.

 

[Wyobohunter]

People!

Pay attention for a second.

It is perfectly ok to use the word “harvest” to describe killing an animal for use; it is a correct use of the word.

When we attack what doesn’t deserve attacking, it makes us look like troglodytes to the general public. This is as silly as any other culture war nonsense.

Don’t be troglodytes.

harvest /ˈhɑːvɪst /
▸ noun the process or period of gathering in crops: farmers work longer hours during the harvest. ▫ the season's yield or crop: a poor harvest.

▫ a quantity of animals caught or killed for human use: a limited harvest of wild mink.

▫ the product or result of an action: in terms of science, Apollo yielded a meagre harvest.

▸ verb [with object] gather (a crop) as a harvest: after harvesting, most of the crop is stored in large buildings. ▫ catch or kill (animals) for human consumption: the quantity of squid harvested has risen.

▫ remove (cells, tissue, or an organ) from a person or animal for experiment or transplant.
▫ collect or obtain (a resource) for future use: the research teams are leading the way in identifying new ways of harvesting the sun's energy.

– DERIVATIVES harvestable adjective.
– ORIGIN Old English hærfest ‘autumn’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch herfst and German Herbst, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin carpere ‘pluck’ and Greek karpos ‘fruit’.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I kill animals, I don't harvest them, except for those pheasants. Troglodytes need love to.

 

[Wyobohunter]

I kill animals, I don't harvest them, except for those pheasants. Troglodytes need love to.

You harvest them too; the two words are interchangeable. You might as well say that you breath but don’t respire.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I say I'm going for a walk, but I never say I'm going for ambulate. both mean the same thing.

 

[Wyobohunter]

I say I'm going for a walk, but I never say I'm going for ambulate. both mean the same thing.

Not quite right; in the sense you use the word “walk” it is a noun, while “ambulate” is a verb. You could say, “I’m going to walk”, or “I’m going to ambulate”.

 

[5MilesBack]

My wife is always asking me why I concern myself with so many things that I have no control over. My reply is always the same "I don't have to concern myself with the things I do have control over, because I've already fixed those things". The only things left to concern myself with, are the things I don't have control over that need fixing.

 

[KChunter71]

Am I the only one bothered when hunters say they "harvested" an animal?

We aren't farmers. We are hunters. We kill the animal and harvest the meat. Why are we so afraid to say the word kill?

It’s better than being asked do you “catch something”?

I’m an international harvester!

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Not quite right; in the sense you use the word “walk” it is a noun, while “ambulate” is a verb. You could say, “I’m going to walk”, or “I’m going to ambulate”.

Do you count the number of hairs on both side of a part so they are just so. I think you might.

 

[Wyobohunter]

Do you count the number of hairs on both side of a part so they are just so. I think you might.

I’m interested in language, and would like for us (hunters) to sound somewhat educated to the public. In the motorcycle forum I’m a member of, I help the liberals with their gun related nomenclature, e.g. magazine vs. clip.

p.s. My hair is too short to part ;-)