Harvest not kill?

[10thmountainarcher]

If you're a man, you've just lost your man card..

Good, because I don't want the definition of your man card anyways.

Ha! In all seriousness though where is your hang up with the difference in the terms. When your bullet/arrow ends the life of a critter you have just killed it.  No need to *censored*foot around it, if you are having a mental hang up with it, are you sure you can continue hunting.  Im being serious, first post I was just kidding around,  but honestly a lot of issues can be born from this subject.

[snowpack]

Think smite/smote should make a comeback.

[Skillet]

Put the pipe away...I know it's legal and all. First you kill, then you eat. Fish and birds too. I guess the mushrooms I eat are killed when I cut them off at the base. He may have talked the deer to death........ Just saying!!

Not to pick nits - but those mushrooms you get are actually just a part of the entire organism that you harvested - the fungus itself doesn't die.  Just like that really special three-legged pig.  So special, can't eat him all at once!

[Buckmark]

Assasainate, Execute, Snuff, 

[Skillet]

Think smite/smote should make a comeback.

Natural Born Smiters

[Igottanewknee]

I thought that I was the only one that the three legged pig joke. Love it. AND I stand corrected. Still, the fruiting part is now dead.......Yum, Yum.

[Buckmark]

I can tell you i have never harvested a 6pack or a 5th, no sir i pretty much can kill a 6 pack or a 5th...and after i might try and finish that special 3 legged pig all by myself...
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I think this is the beginning of what happens when we raise kids a certian way, everyone gets a trophy and a lollipop, we are all special and to make things seem all happy and rainbows to appear we will make sure we use nice sounding words like harvest and make love....blah blah blah, we all know what that really means we kill and we &%$@....

[turkeyfeather]

I never understood that term. I think that is a term developed for TV to make hunting shows appear to be more sensitive.

[JJB11B]

I can tell you i have never harvested a 6pack or a 5th, no sir i pretty much can kill a 6 pack or a 5th...and after i might try and finish that special 3 legged pig all by myself...
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I think this is the beginning of what happens when we raise kids a certian way, everyone gets a trophy and a lollipop, we are all special and to make things seem all happy and rainbows to appear we will make sure we use nice sounding words like harvest and make love....blah blah blah, we all know what that really means we kill and we &%$@....

I harvested some fifths last night/ Or maybe I farmed them?

[Skillet]

I think from now on, when I get done making a great presentation at work or to a client, I'm going to leave the room, pump my fist and say "I just harvested it!"   

Ok, ok, no more jokes from me.  I get the "harvest" instead of "kill" thing.  I use that term occasionally when in polite company or a professional forum myself.  But when you're filling out an online report, by yourself, and this bothers you?  Somebody's just not being honest with themselves about what they're doing out there.

Or - you're just trolling on here for your Monday afternoon jollies.

[Old Man Yager]

I'm with the majority here, I kill em.  But just because I say I kill doesn't mean I don't have an extreme amount of respect for the animal I am pursuing in my attempt to kill it. No reason to sugar coat it, that's just what we do as hunters!!

[stevemiller]

Did you KILL any birds? 

[hdshot]

Now I have to disagree....

Kill may mean that to you, which is fine. However, just like harvest means something else to the next guy it doesnt mean it is wrong.

From dictionary.com...

kill1  /kɪl/ Show Spelled [kil] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1. to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
2. to destroy; do away with; extinguish: His response killed our hopes. 
3. to destroy or neutralize the active qualities of: to kill an odor. 
4. to spoil the effect of: His extra brushwork killed the painting. 
5. to cause (time) to be consumed with seeming rapidity or with a minimum of boredom, especially by engaging in some easy activity or amusement of passing interest: I had to kill three hours before plane time.

To deprive life. That is what the bullet/arrow/knife does.

We kill animals in order to consume their meat.

 

We as hunters don't want to deprive life. We manage to save habitat to benefit life for wildlife as one example, not deprive life.  Hunter have limits so we don't deprive life of the species.

Deprive life could mean you want them all gone.     
     

[RadSav]

I don't care what you call it.  Though I prefer to shoot'em dead.  In my experience that makes 'em much easier to catch.  Then I like to harvest every last ounce of meat from their bones.

[snowpack]

You guys are too funny, you're really harvesting me.