Harvest vs Kill Poll

[Pramo]

I've got a non-hunting buddy who asks me "if I gave anything a ride in my backpack"

So I use that now

 

[kiddogy]

gave one a ride this morn

 

[zankuleg]

Our biologist has told us the last 3 years not to shoot any does on our north Sumter\south Pickens property. So none have been shot there.

My 15 year old son killed 2 does, a 7 point and 4 hogs in one weekend at a friends farm in Emmelle. They are soybean farmers and told him to shoot whatever he saw. The deer eat the money right out of his pocket every night.

And before people complain about his shooting that many in one weekend he hunted all day saturday and sunday. Killed the buck and a doe saturday morning. Killed 1 hog Saturday afternoon. 3 hogs Sunday morning and the last doe Sunday afternoon, We saw over 45 deer those 2 days and probably about 25 hogs. The place is overrun.

 

[netman]

Zank tell your boy to lay’em down and stack’em up.

 

[coyoteman]

Killed or shot for me I guess...I think it's easier for the guys that farm or manage whitetails to use the term harvest..watch it grow for years and years all the while praying it doesn't cross on to public land and get killed by me or some other schmuck. Maybe someday I'll turn turn into a harvester but until then I'll just keep on shoot'n and kill'n lol

 

[Gobbler36]

Harvest is for Vegetables and flat brim hunters with man buns.
I kill my meat and eat it

 

[16Bore]

If I’m talking to a snowflake, it’s “grocery shopping”

 

[Kevin Dill]

"It was me or the bear, so I harvested him."
"I made a perfect harvest shot."
"Coyotes are harvesting fawns like crazy."
"That guy is a stone cold harvester!"
"You could harvest a T Rex with that load."
"I see those big eyelashes and wonder how anyone could harvest it."

So there.

 

[16Bore]

Here’s a basket of apples I killed for you...

 

[Btaylor]

"I see those big eyelashes and wonder how anyone could harvest it."

And I harvested her little one the same way, I just aimed lower.

 

[tgus59]

Harvest does not make sense to me when it comes to fair chase hunting. If you are going to harvest something, there isn't really any doubt of success.

 

[UtahJimmy]

I prefer murder. Kill just sounds too soft.

My wife's friends ask me if I "caught" anything when I get back from a hunt. I laugh every time!

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[AK Troutbum]

How about slaughter? Now that's a term I can really appreciate, especially when talking to the pita types....although, I don't recall ever crossing paths with a pita person in AK.

 

[amassi]

Harvest out of respect and enjoyment for the activity--
In the Marine Corps we kill things we hate and I dont like to apply it to things I appreciate and enjoy. But, this isnt "1984" so the word police arent enforcing newspeak just yet so who the fart cares what someone calls taking an animal's life through the judicious application of lethal force.

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[LostArra]

How about slaughter? Now that's a term I can really appreciate, especially when talking to the pita types....although, I don't recall ever crossing paths with a pita person in AK.

Exactly! Even feed lot cattle are slaughtered, not harvested.

 

[Jimmy]

I'm not sure who's right but I'd be happy to use either one at this point in the season.

So far I've killed my legs and harvested some rubber off the bottom of my boots.

 

[archp625]

I tend to use shot. I shot some ducks or shot a deer. I don't think I have every used kill or harvest. Don't mind either word though.

 

[ptarmigan]

I giggle when, mostly non-hunters, ask if I caught a deer this year. Caught implies it can be released again! I usually say: "No, I killed one...or I was hoping to kill one...."

I had never heard anybody say that until I moved to Alaska. Most Native Alaskans that I talk to about hunting use that term. They always say they "caught" a caribou, moose, or whatever.

 

[Kevin Dill]

Harvest? We did it to ourselves.

"I let him/her go for seed."
"I think we've got a good crop of fawns."
"She's a ripe old doe for sure."
"Easy pickings....just a forky!"

Actually 'harvest' is perfectly acceptable to me. Some might prefer to use it in polite company, or in describing their appreciation for a an animal they have taken for food. I don't agree with using the term to be politically correct or avoid the obvious fact that something had to bleed and die....just like chickens and lambs and calves.....in order to be harvested.

 

[H2PVon]

Couldn't vote. I hashtag"smoke'em".