Harvest vs. Kill....what do you call it and why?

[Glockster]

Harvest vs. Kill....what do you call it and why?

I kill deer, ducks, grouse, geese, snipe, rabbits, fish and shellfish every year.  I harvest tomatoes and buy the rest of my vegetable matter from he store.

I enjoy killing and eating deer the most.

Personally I believe we should call it what it is....killing....it is what we really do.  It also puts a deer on the level of a tomato in terms of "specialness", for lack of a better term.  Why are hunters of all people afraid to call it what it really is?

[BIGINNER]

    i don't really pay attention.  but i definately don't say harvest... the pheasant is not a damb pumpkin!!   

i usually say,... "I went hunting and SHOT a pheasant"

[MountainWalk]

Being from Arkansas, I do not say killed. More like "kilt".

[coachcw]

harvest is more PC

[Kola16]

  I never say harvest. It is usually shot, but once in a while I will say killed.

[wsucowboy]

I never say harvest. It is usually shot, but once in a while I will say killed.

[brackens]

I say, and this is not correct grammar, "I got a deer".

[PolarBear]

No, I "catch" all of my animals.     I say that I "got's me a deer" or I shot (with a gun) or stuck (with a bow) and leave it at that.  I found that if there are any liberals in the room that the word "killed" brings them into the conversation in a negative way, then the whole thing goes down hill fast.

[pianoman9701]

I'll say harvest if talking to a non-hunter. Otherwise shot, arrowed, bagged, dumped, dropped, slammed, whacked, or killed.

[Mongo Hunter]

I just said this in another post 


I say Kill, Killin, Kilt, Bloodlust, Slaughter, Stuck, Shot, Murder, Mayhem, Destroy, All the above. Never say harvest...ever. We all call it and deal with things differently.

I work in Oregon with a bunch of tree hunggin hippies , so I like messin with people and tell them if I don't get the Bloodlust out of my system during hunting season I'm gunna have go slaughter all the animals in a pet store...They get all twisted up about me saying that...I find it funny they get twisted up. they all like the deer meat I bring in though, odd how that works.

[coachcw]

usually by the time you hike 50 mile in search of one you wanna Kill it !

[headshot5]

I only say harvest if it dies in my garden. 

[Chesapeake]

Sometimes I say "I harvested a state raised free range deer". Most of the time I say "I got a deer", or " I shot a deer", ect....

To me "harvest" is more fitting because it comes with the thoughts of using and eating what was harvested.

"killed" is more in line with carp, rats, moles, mice, coyotes, ect..... Those critters that you kill with no real intent on using them.

But either is fine for me. Seems a bit like splitting hairs. In the end its dead, and I'm going to eat it.

[Glockster]

I LOVE it when a lib-tard jumps into one of my hunting conversations with their smarter, holier than thou attitudes 

I have converted 3 of them this year alone.  Honestly, most of them are highly educated, just sheltered and mis informed city dwellers with no concept of where food comes from.  Most of them believe we kill animals and just take the "trophy" souvenir horns.  I could see where someone would get that impression based on all the hunting TV hero shows out there.....none of them show any gutting, butchering or meat care, or other 'dirty work' whatsoever. 

[jaymark6655]

harvest is more PC

LOL, I think I said, "Hey I got a deer." last year after I called up my uncle to tell him.  This year I am switching to, "I murdered that sumeb..."