Do Progressives/Democrats here on DU hunt or have hunted in the past?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

83. I haven't. Not directly.

My grand-da and uncles were all quite liberal and yet very good hunters; however, it was always subsistence hunting with them, never sports hunting. They hunted to eat, not for sadism or as a penile substitute.

I will say that I did go hunting with my grand-da the fall and winter I was 8-9, but I was too young at the time to handle a gun. He brought me along to teach me other parts of hunting, like tracking animals, how to get upwind of a target without making a sound--stuff like that. I did take a gun safety course the following summer to prepare for the first real hunting trip, but he became terminally ill before the fall.

I was actually relieved that it never came to doing the actual killing. I was learning how to hunt out of duty, to be able to provide for the family table if absolutely necessary, but my heart wasn't really in it beyond that. I knew better than to get upset in front of him about the animals he took down, but I was in reality far too soft-hearted to do that myself without a v good reason for it.