Bow Hunting: The Ultimate Evil
Article about: Animal cruelty, Animal Rights, Bow Hunting, Deer, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Sports, Wildlife
Bow hunting is without a doubt, the cruelest form of hunting in America. Hunting with a bow and arrow is not only a retrogression to the use of weapons given up hundreds of years ago because of their inefficiency, but a retrogression to utter barbarism.
As a student of wildlife ecology, I oppose any type of hunting because it violates every sound principle of ecology and is unimaginably cruel. In the case of bow hunting where deer and other animals die a slow death by hemorrhaging, the wounding rate exceeds 50 percent. It is therefore hardly “sport” and there is no rational reason to impose or support such cruelty to any living being.
Bow hunting is beyond immoral. It is the ultimate act of despicable cruelty by hunters fueled with a thirst for killing by the most hideous of means. It is pure evil to commit any living being to such a horrible mix of agony, pain, and death.
The person I choose to use as the chief witness in the case against bow hunting is a man named Clare Conley, a champion archer and big game hunter. Mr. Conley describes the hunt that changed his attitude toward bow hunting forever.
“I was afield with three hunters when we jumped a Doe that ran in front of us. One of the men drew his bow and shot. The arrow went through the Doe’s neck. We all saw the arrow sticking out of both sides of the Doe’s neck as she bounded away.”
“The blood trail was easy to find, but we waited the usual hour for her to lie down, stiffen up and eventually die. We followed the scarlet trail for more than an hour expecting to find her dead. We came to several pools of blood with prints of her knees beside them, where she had gone down to hang her head, and bleed in the bright sun. We saw spots where she had stumbled, but still her life blood ran, and still she went on.”
“At last we found her. She was dying. She was on her knees and hocks. Her ears, no longer the wonderful, alert warning system to detect any danger, were sagging. Her head was down. Her nose was in her blood. We could hear her breath bubbling in the warm blood.”
“Somehow the Doe lurched up. Stumbling, bounding, blindly into the brush, she managed to reach the rim of a plateau and disappear. She was nowhere in sight. We fanned out and combed the hillside where we lost her tracks among a maze of other deer tracks. We failed to retrieve her.”
“We lost four wounded deer on that one hunting trip, but the Doe I saw dying stayed with me. Her heartbroken, dulling eyes haunted me. At odd moments I’d see her, wild and free, then dying in the sun, her breath choking in a pool of blood.”
“I resolved never again to shoot any living creature with a bow.” I rest my case.
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October 8th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
where was this published? can i get a citation please. thx
November 26th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Honte à toutes formes de barbaries
November 28th, 2008 at 11:10 am
NOUS SOMMES ABSOLUMENT CONTRE LA CHASSE A L’ARC. C’EST INDIGNE DE LA NATURE HUMAINE.
November 28th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Quelle barbarie
November 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
marre et archi marre de toutes ces atrocite qui sevit sur ces petits animaux
November 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am
ultimate evil indeed, same with bullfigt
November 30th, 2008 at 7:29 am
STOP !!!
Killer hunter !!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 am
Mais que ces tueurs lâches orgueilleux et maudits recoivent leur Juste Punition!
December 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am
you are right! a neck shot is barbaric and should not have been taken. Anyone who has done a NBEF or IBEP qualification would know this and wouldnt have taken the shot.
As an ecology student you must have studied human evolution. And would therfore know that the eating of cooked meat changed the path of our evolution. You should also be aware that one of the atributes of having both eyes on the front of the skull signifies the trait of a predator.
Had we not eaten meat we would have not survived the last ice age.
Your statistics are incorrect on the wounding rate. Please refer to your Nations game and fish organisational bodies.
A lot of research has been carried out in Europe where we are not so ‘trigger happy’ and huntings contribution to the economy would not be considered in any budget.
As a felow scientist I would urge you to remove personal emotions and subjectivity from your publication and base them upon facts and statistics.
If you continued your resarch based upon these criteria you would most certainly not graduate from a UK university as an ecologist.
Please conduct your research correctly.
You may find out that due to the prior man made reduction in numbers of natural predators hunting in you country serves to preserve the ‘game species’ from extinction due to over exhaustion of the carrying capacity of the animals habbitat.
You apper to be very mislead!
January 20th, 2009 at 11:54 am
martyn seems to have a problem with wounding rates; perhaps this, from the North American Hunting Club may shed some light on why wounding rates are as high as 50%!
Neck shots are quite common by archers - and the worst part is that the animals are most likely not retrieved because they haven’t been wounded mortally, adding to extreme animal suffering!
Thought You Knew Where To Aim? Think Again.
FACT: Many hunters aim too far back on a broadside whitetail. And hitting too far back results in a slug, bullet or broadhead passing through a deer’s paunch or liver, not its lungs.
Instead of aiming 3-4 inches behind a deer’s front leg and about one-third up from its bellyline, shoot directly above the back edge of the front leg. Bowhunters should aim one-third up from the bellyline, but rifle hunters, who don’t have to fear striking the shoulder bone, can aim for the midpoint between the deer’s bellyline and backline. A bullet that strikes the shoulder bone will drop a deer in its tracks.
FICTION: All 3-D archery targets correctly show a deer’s heart and lung area.
FACT: Many 3-D targets show the heart and lung too far back, unfortunately, which teaches bowhunters to aim too far back when shooting at the real deal. Always remember: You’re better off hitting too far forward than too far back, so keep your bullets and broadheads over the front leg, not behind it.
Aim at the right spot and your buddies will give you the nickname “Double-Lung Larry” and not “Gut-Shot Sam.”
The ONLY reason for higher deerpopulation is not due to the lack of natural predators; it is wildlife management’s artificial boosting of reproduction, all for only one purpose - TO PROVIDE GREATER HUNTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HUNTERS and to fill their coffers with $$$ from hunting license fees, excise taxes from all hunting equipment and paraphernalia via the Pittman-Robertson Act, etc.
It is martyn who is mislead!
Natural predators are not welcome; they are exterminated as soon as they appear because they are considered direct competition for game.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
If you ever notice ‘hunters’ always seems to claim their are “wildlife biologist more like wildlife BS. “Eyes in front” is because our ancestors are monkey that jump from tree to tree not because you are meant to “hunt”. Bowkillers do not “hunt” anyway they wait and kill. They purchase their cowardly tree stand, lures, and some do use bait whether illigaly or legaly and WAIT for the animals to COME TO THEM. Its’ not “hunting” is WAIT AND AMBUSH OR KILL! Man is not “natural” predators to wildlfie without your weapons and all your pathetic gadgets in the forest you be like a little defensleless rabbit. Why don’t you be a food items for carnivores like wolves and coyotes?? Your body would taste pretty good to them because man is an herbivore/frugivore.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Thank you so much Natalie for those great information. I have several channels on youtube and I have viewed lots of bowkilling videos and I have seen some horrific death. Majority of the video I have observed the deer does not die “quick” I see them thrashing in pain, some crying. The deer is hit and then run off while the bowkillers track the deer with blood or gut matter. Some of the videos I know they never even found the deer they like to show off how they can shoot a arrow into a defenseless sentient animalS. Today’s ‘hunting’ is legalized sadism to innocent life!