I should clarify - I am not at all against bow hunting. I think it's an ethical way to hunt and like all hunting - a bad shot is way worse than no shot at all.
I meant that luring the lion out of the protected zone and then shooting it. A bad shot on his behalf resulted in 40 hours of suffering.
Most people who don't hunt and fish are incredibly ignorant of how food ends up in our grocery stores and on our plates. I would argue that a clean and quick kill from a hunter is way more ethical than industrial farming. At least with game hunting the animals are wild and free and going about their normal life. Incidents like this do nothing but harm to the image of hunting as the vast majority of hunters and not trophy hunters, but hunt to eat (and enjoy the whole process, which still results in the whole animal being used)
The reality is if we are going to eat meat, an animal has to die.
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Thats just a bad shot on the hunters behalf, i bow hunt and i will not make a shot unless im 110% certain it will hit its mark.
Bow hunting is a very ethical form of hunting when done right. But mistakes do happen and it happens every year around here with every species in BC. Imagine if someone was to post up a deer wounded by a hunters arrow, suffered for days in the forest and died as said hunter could not find his animal, or shot too far back and took 3 days to die from a gut shot. The world would go nuts and all hunters would be in the line of fire.
Last year i posted a pic of a small spike buck i shot with my bow, i had people tearing into me left right and center. Saying how inhumane and why would you shoot it with an arrow and such. When... that deer went 7 yards and lasted 15 seconds. The one i got with my gun went 140 yards and lasted 3-5 minutes.... both perfect shots.
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