Yes I do celebrate, but I think you’re missing the nuance here. I might get excited shooting one or two of something in a day. But shooting one or two hundred of something, I would find no joy in that. And I propose than anyone that would is a little sick in the head. Glad to see above that at least some get no joy in doing it.
So I didn’t read the original thing posted by Adam, did he say he gets off killing, I’m not sure where the original idea of getting off or joy came from. It’s never joyful to take a life but for management purposes which is all we do when hunting or when there is an open season with no requirement to take any part of an animal is legal in order to control them, I see tons of guys posting up all their coyote kills with excitement and it doesn’t bother me at all because they are controlling a population, I think maybe people want everyone to be sad, if we were all that way there wouldn’t be any hunting.
I’m not saying one should get excited about the act of killing but I would say we all enjoy it or we wouldn’t hunt. How many post picture here and on social media of game killed? How many here post their coyote counts etc.
Truthfully to post about any kill, one is showing joy and quantity isn’t relative a life is a life. I value our wildlife but I don’t put a Disney persona on them, wildlife needs managed and kept in check, certain animals are a good source of food, others such as rats, prairie dogs, coyotes etc are not.
I don’t judge another country for determining what is and isn’t a required source of food vs needing to only be controlled based on species. I don’t look down on people that are excited about hunting as long as it’s done legally and I don’t think anyone enjoys taking a life but everyone on this forum gets joy out of hunting which includes killing animals.
I mean I’ve never seen a guy get such joy out of killing as Fred Eichler, he dances around and screams like a little school girl every time.