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IKE said:
I've hunted (which means I'm definitely pro gun) and fished for as long as I can remember but I don't do it for trophies I do it because I enjoy hunting and fishing and we enjoy eating what I harvest.....if anyone finds the below pics offensive so be it.

Early 90's NWT.
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I will take the fish. Pike is good, but a little boney.
 

Pepper said:
I was against deer hunting until I tasted venison. That was 45 years ago.
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I've never hunted game... not my thing, just a personal choice though I am an avid gun owner and sharpshooter. I get my food at the grocery store. In the Army I had a friend who was a hunter and he introduced me to venison sausage. I'll never be the same. I had a friend in Georgia who dressed deer for a living. He made the best venison jerky I have ever tasted. If there is a heaven, they have venison jerky there.
 
Some of “the old masters” painted still life that included dead animals. It is neither new nor unique. It is a matter of taste. While I probably wouldn’t spend the time to paint a decapitated deer I do have a rather stunning photo of my father and some other friends and family with 5 deer tied upon their car. The car has 1930 plates. They pose with their guns and catch. I had that photo blown up to poster size….and it stops people in their tracks. I absolutely love it. I also have a favorite photo of my son when he was about two…he is wearing a red snowsuit and holding a dead ringneck pheasant. The colors are beautiful .
 
Muskrat said:
I also have a favorite photo of my son when he was about two…he is wearing a red snowsuit and holding a dead ringneck pheasant. The colors are beautiful .
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Two with a dead thing is beautiful? If you say so. Any way to show us this pic? I'm really interested. Thank you.
 
911 said:
but I preferred eating deer that ate corn and beans from the farmers during the summer months. You can tell the difference from the meat of a mountain deer and a deer that ate off of the farmer's land....
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And a Doe from an apple orchard VS an old 10 point buck in rut taste a world apart. I have many photos of trophy bucks... all standing. I only harvest Does to put in the freezer.
 
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Thank you @Muskrat. IMO, it doesn't look dead & gruesome & the kid is gorgeous. Still a bit strange to me, but that beautiful kid makes up for it.

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There is something sad about it though. The child looks sad, I think. Your son, right? Does he remember the picture and how he felt?
 
LoveTulips said:
I understand that for sure. I just don't understand glorifying a painting having shot an animal or a deer head with antlers hanging in someone's home or lodge.
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I understand completely when you say that. I used to play in paper mache sculpture and I never did an animal head to hang on the wall because it just felt like a nod (of approval) to trophy hunters who do that to their victims. I've since discovered that my daughter who also worked in the same medium has the same attitude.
 
Debrah N. said:
I understand completely when you say that. I used to play in paper mache sculpture and I never did an animal head to hang on the wall because it just felt like a nod (of approval) to trophy hunters who do that to their victims. I've since discovered that my daughter who also worked in the same medium has the same attitude.
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Maybe it's done out of respect, not necessarily contempt or pride. I don't see the work of the taxidermist as dead animals but as works of art.
 
LoveTulips said:
So I belong to a FB group where we all paint portraits and it is run by an instructor/artist whom I have taken lessons from online. He's a nice guy the instructor. Anyways, I'm scrolling through the portraits of the members, and I come across this woman who wants a critique on her painting of her son with rifle in one hand and in the other hand holding up this gorgeous dead deer's head. There is the actual photo shown and the painting in progress.

So many, many people are commenting on how she can improve her painting including the instructor. Me, along with a few others are horrified to see this photo and painting. I totally get that some people still have to hunt for their food. I actually don't think that was the case here. To me, it looked like trophy hunting. Regardless, why in the world would you want a painting of this lovely creature who is now dead painted? Isn't it enough that it was shot either for food or (sickening thought) as a trophy? The instructor refused to take the photo/painting off FB. I'm having second thoughts of staying with this instructor. What do you think?
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There's not a lot to say here other than - some people do like it.

Some people have dead animals stuffed and mounted. Some remove the head and nail it to the wall. Some use the skins as carpets.

I'm a happy hypocrite. I'm a meat eater. I'd never kill an animal. I can eat meat (and fish) as long as it doesn't look like the animal it comes from. It goes without saying, I'd not be interested in having such a portrait around.

I knew a Scottish guy who had moved to Houston, TX. His neighbor would hunt. My friend would sometimes leave his house to find a deer hanging from a tree on his neighbors lawn. The guy would dress the deer there too. I mean to me.... I'd be moving the next day. But to the neighbor - normal living.
 
gruntlabor said:
Maybe it's done out of respect, not necessarily contempt or pride. I don't see the work of the taxidermist as dead animals but as works of art.
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It's done as a trophy to their manliness or their ability to shoot, etc. I once watched a video with a couple guys shooting at a grizzly on a ridge opposite them. That bear just shambling along, minding his own business and when they hit it, the sound of their cheers and hoots and catcalls as the poor dying animal bounced from boulder to boulder down that slope, was dreadful.

There was no respect, no awe at his majesty, just satisfaction at another creature killed. Also saw a video of a guy hunting coyotes and there was the same reaction, and then there's the horrible guy in Wisconsin, Cody Roberts, who ran down an 18 month old wolf, put a shock collar on her, dragged her into a bar where they tormented and tortured her with that shock collar for hours!

He and the neanderthals in that community thought that was just fine too! His aunt skinned the poor creature later and bragged about her fine nephew and supported his brutality. Trophy hunters😠, heartless.
 
gruntlabor said:
Maybe it's done out of respect, not necessarily contempt or pride. I don't see the work of the taxidermist as dead animals but as works of art.
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Artists are the guys who stalk a wild animal in the wilderness with camera's. Sitting patiently until they get that iconic shot of an amazing, beautiful animal living it's life in harmony with the environment that is their world and bringing it out for the world to see. Not a dead piece of skin and hair over a wooden form or stuffed with sawdust and glass eyes that stare sightlessly into the world of humanity's violence and cruelty.
 
Debrah N. said:
Artists are the guys who stalk a wild animal in the wilderness with camera's. Sitting patiently until they get that iconic shot of an amazing, beautiful animal living it's life in harmony with the environment that is their world and bringing it out for the world to see. Not a dead piece of skin and hair over a wooden form or stuffed with sawdust and glass eyes that stare sightlessly into the world of humanity's violence and cruelty.
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Really well stated.
 
Debrah N. said:
It's done as a trophy to their manliness or their ability to shoot, etc. I once watched a video with a couple guys shooting at a grizzly on a ridge opposite them. That bear just shambling along, minding his own business and when they hit it, the sound of their cheers and hoots and catcalls as the poor dying animal bounced from boulder to boulder down that slope, was dreadful.

There was no respect, no awe at his majesty, just satisfaction at another creature killed. Also saw a video of a guy hunting coyotes and there was the same reaction, and then there's the horrible guy in Wisconsin, Cody Roberts, who ran down an 18 month old wolf, put a shock collar on her, dragged her into a bar where they tormented and tortured her with that shock collar for hours!

He and the neanderthals in that community thought that was just fine too! His aunt skinned the poor creature later and bragged about her fine nephew and supported his brutality. Trophy hunters😠, heartless.
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Or maybe it's done as a memorial to the animal's beauty or done with respect so as not to waste anything. But I agree that the taking of life for no good reason is a shameful thing. Remember the buffalo slaughtered almost to extinction on the American plains. There will always be mean people.
 
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Debrah N. said:
It's done as a trophy to their manliness or their ability to shoot, etc. I once watched a video with a couple guys shooting at a grizzly on a ridge opposite them. That bear just shambling along, minding his own business and when they hit it, the sound of their cheers and hoots and catcalls as the poor dying animal bounced from boulder to boulder down that slope, was dreadful.

There was no respect, no awe at his majesty, just satisfaction at another creature killed. Also saw a video of a guy hunting coyotes and there was the same reaction, and then there's the horrible guy in Wisconsin, Cody Roberts, who ran down an 18 month old wolf, put a shock collar on her, dragged her into a bar where they tormented and tortured her with that shock collar for hours!

He and the neanderthals in that community thought that was just fine too! His aunt skinned the poor creature later and bragged about her fine nephew and supported his brutality. Trophy hunters😠, heartless.
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Reading this makes me cry. It’s one thing about humanity that I absolutely hate. I don’t understand how some people can get such satisfaction from doing such heartless acts of violence. Our world would be so much better without such people in it.
 
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