** What’s your take on hunting? **
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What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Nov 5 2007 at 4:04pm by Welcome to the Discussion about NIMROD NATION. We would like to know what you think about the series. Answer this question or post one of your own by replying to this post.
What’s your take on hunting?
RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Nov 24 2007 at 9:39am by Hunting in the UP starts out about the meat and ends with the meat. Along the way the tradition of deer camp and the camaraderie of "Did you get your buck" masks the issue of putting meat in the freezer. I found it interesting that in one of your episodes there is a pig hanging from an excavator and is being butchered. It would have been more realistic if it was a deer on a buckpole or a tree in the front yard for all to see. The price of beef is $10/lb. Most yoopers that are asked the question, "what do you think about hunting" wouldnt understand why you are asking because it is a way of life and a necessity. It would be like asking a city person, "what's your take on fast food"?
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RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Nov 26 2007 at 6:57pm by Having been raised in the U.P., and living in the midst of this culture, I would agree with the first poster that hunting is indeed a way of life and a means of subsistence. I think it holds an even more important role in boyhood, though. I think hunting for wild game is one of the last few rites of passage that exists for males. Boys having been stripped of traditional roles and values by popular culture, have also been robbed of many transitions that signaled to them that they were becoming men. The responsible use of a a firearm, the taking of an animal's life not for a trophy but for a Winter's meals, and the brotherhood of hunters and their elaborate storytelling create a realm where boys can learn the methods of manhood. Certainly women hunt too, and I don't negate their equality in this realm, but the longstanding rites of males and hunting are not lost to yoopers. Though I am not a hunter nor a fan of guns, I recognize the importance of this rite. As a mother of two young boys, I look forward to watching them follow their grandfather's, uncle's and father's footsteps into the woods, fields, ponds and streams to where they can learn to respect nature and to respect themselves as young men. -
RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Nov 26 2007 at 10:44pm by I grew up in the UP. Nearly everyone hunted. My dad gave me my first gun when I was 5, a 22 cal rifle. I loved to shoot. He taught me gun safety right away. Most kids up there knew not to mess around with guns. Everyone had a gun cabinet in their house.
We had venison every year. My dad always hunted and managed to bag one. We ate nearly everything...In Episode 1 they mentioned head cheese. My dad always had head cheese made. We ate the heart, liver..and had a freezer full of venison. That was supplemented with trout and walleye which were caught in the local rivers or ice fishing on the big lake..Keweenaw Bay by Baraga.
I don't live in the UP right now, so buy my meat at the local grocery store. But if you have ever been to the UP, you will soon realize that the people up there are poor. Hunting is a necessity for many of them. Now I will say, they are poor in money, but very rich in spirit and life. The yoopers are a carefree people, hardy, and tough. They have to be.RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Dec 16 2007 at 11:32am by I’m from the UP and I hunt almost every chance I get. I have to admit that I do take offence to some of the stereotypes that are being portrayed about people who live in the UP. Not everyone is dirt poor and starving. I hunt for the joy of being outdoors; not for the life or death matter of starving to death. Just so everyone knows if we're hungry we can go to the store and buy food. We don't necessarily have to go hunt and gather it.
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RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Nov 27 2007 at 12:42am by I grew up basically a city boy and hunted once in my life - that being said - I do not prefer to hunt but I have no problem with it whatsoever - especially these folks who do it for food and not trophy. I did find the the pig killing strangely hilarious and morbid at the same time. I felt bad for that pig but then I said to myself "you just had bacon for breakfast - where do you think that came from?" Add to that the honesty involved in killing and animal to eat it compared to going to a slaughter house and you should appreciate hunting for it's balance. My Grandfather was a USDA cattle and hog inspector in Peoria IL. He took me to the slaughter houses all the time. Truly - that was horrific - yet I still like a great steak or prok chop - so I say - keep hunting folks - just don't waste the animal.
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RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Dec 5 2007 at 10:01pm by I started hunting with my Dad and Uncles and cousins in the northern lower peninsula when I was little. I love to hunt. A few years ago I was privledged to go bear hunting in DaUP eh, and play cards at the Sidnaw Hilton. I'm glad someone mentioned women hunting. I am a woman that hunts and I am currently helping a friend that has started an online magazine for women that hunt. www.womanhunter.com. If you know any women that hunt please let them know about it. Hope I get to see the shows about Watersmeet. Wish I had heard about them sooner. RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Dec 7 2007 at 11:56am by Most of us Born and bred yoopers were raised with a gun in one hand and a fishing pole in the other. To us they were like having an American express card; you never left home without them!!! To me there is nothing better! My wife and i plan our vacations around deer season and walleye season!!
RE: What’s your take on hunting? Posted on Dec 17 2007 at 11:48pm by Being from Michigan I have no problem with the hunting. This goes on in almost every state in the union and is not limited to people in rural areas. Every hunting season two hundred thousand hunters come up from the cities.
I would guess the hunting scenes were done before the basketball season began because firearm season goes from Nov.15-30 and basketball season begins the first week of December.