How will I feel after hunting game for the first time?

[Bobby]

i grew up in a hunting home.we were taught that its ok as long as it is eaten.i dont care for all wild game taste wise,but i love to hunt.so i give alot to freinds and family that like them.never felt bad for it,as long as it is used.only thing that bothers me is to shoot a animal and not being able to find or recover the animal,made me feel like i let it down.my 10 yr old son got his first squirrel last weekend,he said he was said,but grandma sure would like to eat it.....

[Godfearing Outdoorsman]

I don't know, I don't know you.I was excited my first time. When I was a kid and got my first squirrel I ran straight home with it. LOLThey first time I killed something was a sick chicken we had. I felt strange for about a week after wards, kinda hard to put into words. Killing after wards still bothered me for a while but living on a farm it goes with the territory. In time you don't think about it. It's like swatting a fly. I think of Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven""I've killed 'bout everything that's walked or crawled"Eat the meat, eat it with your friends, it will help you to realize the purpose of killing, food. That is really truly is what hunting is all about. Or should be anyway.

[P Griffin]

I have never hunted anything. I have never killed an animal. But I think it would be a good experience. I know how to, but it is illegal where I live. The Indians believed in never wasting any part of the animal you kill. Always have a killshot. Never take two shots to kill it. I do hope to have a respectful, and good hunt someday. I dont know what It will feel like, and I am sure you are the same.

[tiff]

Who knows how you'll feel...No one can predict how you will feel. Just enjoy the outdoors and the time with your friends or family while you can. They leave us all to soon. Shoot well and the game will not suffer.Good luck

[Ray]

Hunting is something that man has done ever since man has been around. I know when I got my first deer I felt a lot of respect for that deer, joy because I was able to take it cleanly, and fulfilled that I was able to provide for my family in that way. After a while, I felt a kind of satisfaction, knowing that I had succeeded in becoming a little more self reliant. No longer would I feel that all my food had to come from the store or from a farm. Everyone is different, it's not uncommon to see everything from joy to sorrow. I think it has something to do with a person's personal reasons for hunting.

[Mr Gregg Andrews]

Admittedly, you are probably going to feel bad. Every time I kill an animal, there is a bit of a guilty pang in my chest, but it really doesn't "get" to me, as I know that I killed that animal for a reason... food. Hunting is a sport founded on primal needs... food. It also carries a moral responsibility. Point in short, you might feel bad afterwards, but if you don't waste the animal, then you just have to remember it's just nature... we are bound to kill as the other creatures in the wild do every day in order to survive.

[william]

If you have any conscious at all, you will feel remorse for taking a life.