Woman Shoots Rare Albino Deer on First Day of Hunting Season

"It's pretty unique! It'd look great on my wall!"

Well, now everybody will be able to see it! ...Dead...

If she'd killed it with her bare-fucking-hands, then I'd be impressed:

http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86377

My murderous rage at this woman and desire to see her painted white and hunted by Sub-Zero and Buzzsaw is truly startling, given that I'm typically pretty cynical.

If she eats it, I've got no problems with her shooting it.

I hope she dies of very violent natural causes.

You know what would be a rare deer? One that doesn't leap out in front of a car.

Man, killing is such a great sport! I mean, who doesn't enjoy putting bullets into living creatures? Plus, if you eat 'em, you can pretend the whole thing was totally cool and justified, and not you trying to satisfy any sort of sublimated animal bloodlust! It's win/win!

You still have to thin out the population, because their natural instinct will not allow them to move to a place that will provide enough food and water to survive. They rarely leave the couch.

"I figured this was my chance of a lifetime."

Because there's nothing better in life than seeing something few people will ever see and shooting it to death.

Sorry, I don't get it. But if this is an indicator of the world going to Hell, we've been there a long, long time. I've talked to some hunters that I can really understand. I get what they're doing and why. But I've met many, many more who are a lot like this idiot.

They are living at a subsistence level and need to eat? They are naturalists who sadly realize that hunting is the only possible way to keep the population healthy due to the artificial lack of predators, and they go out of their way to leave healthy large bucks and does untouched?

They are people who realize that any consumption of meat involves the killing of something, and they feel morally compelled to be the ones who do the killing, rather than keeping themselves divorced from the process and living in the La-La Land where nothing cute dies.

The non-asshole hunters, that is. I agree that there are plenty of assholes out there, and this woman is their queen.


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So they go to slaughterhouses or ranches and kill animals bred for that purpose, rather than arbitrarily removing healthy males and females from natural populations. That makes sense.

Yes, to your first question.

Watching this video just made me sick.. here is a fucking idea...let it live! the reasoning she gives is just sad....lets paint her fat ass white and do some hunting.

It's coming right for us!!

Now, if she were a bear or some other 'natural predator' this would be 'Natural Selection' at work.

Instead, it's just sad.

Damn it. I knew someone was going to say it first.

How sad is it that the only way some folk can appreciate rare beauty is by hunting it down?

First of all, I don't even know if that is possible because of slaughterhouse regulations. If it is, I would like to know. Second, and this is a point I didn't make earlier but addresses one which you mentioned, the deer population NEEDS to be thinned. I won't go into arguments that thinning is good for deer, because I don't have the resources to back that up, although I imagine the research is out there. However, if you would like, I can send you peer-reviewed journal articles that show that an overabundance of deer and elk cause significant detrimental effects of surrounding ecosystems. In Yellowstone, once wolves became re-established, they affected the food chain dramatically, decreasing elk populations, which allowed young cottonwoods to grow, which allowed beaver populations to recover.

http://www.cof.orst.edu/leopold/papers/ripple.pdf

In most studied ecosystems, carnivores can cause top-down trophic cascades which enhance biodiversity.

Unfortunately, wolves and other large carnivores will never be allowed to persist in most of the US. I am a wildlife biologist in Wisconsin, and my areas of study are wolves and bears and their interaction with their ecosystem, people, and livestock. The wolf population here is probably well beyond the social carrying capacity, but it is still far short of what is needed to control deer populations and enhance biodiversity.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is practically begging people to hunt. There is no other real control on deer (except for cars, which are the largest "predators").

Do I wish that predators were prevalent enough that they kept the deer population in check and enhanced healthy ecosystems? You betcha (not least because that would be great job security for me!). I would love for ecosystems to function without humans fucking it up. But it's just not going to happen.

So, there are many reasons to hunt. But I don't want to forget the whole point of this thread. That woman is an asshole, and that type of hunting is that which assholes do. Sure, my cold scientist heart says that killing an albino deer is actually exactly what would happen in a completely natural system (a predator would have a much greater chance of seeing that deer, and therefore killing it). But I'm not that much of a machine. People like that give me the creeps.

Most hunters I know enjoy being connected to their food, and are fully aware that they are taking a beautiful life when they kill. All of my friends feel profound regret when they do so, but they are meat eaters, and have made a conscious eyes-open decision to eat meat.


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Um, she is a predator. As are we all. Note the canines in your mouth.

My dreadlocks and inviso-camo are all the rage for this year's fashion.

I'm actually a little confused...she has a ball cap with my state on it. She didn't sound Texan, though...

I read this as 'I hope she dies of every violent natural cause.' And I agreed. Really, I thought hunting rare animals just because they're rare went the way of the Dodo.

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How very American of her.

As a hunter I'm more ashamed that she shot what most likely was a younger deer that had plenty of years ahead of it than I am at her shooting an albino. I'm all for population control IF it's needed but most places would rather that you didn't shoot 8 pts or lower, or at least in my experience that's been the case.

As for those that claim that killing deer is something worth taking human life over, I hope to hell that you're all vegans because if not you're probably some of the biggest hypocrites I've ever come across. Hamburger meat and steak does NOT come from cows that died of natural causes. And you should see how chicken is handled before it hits your local grocer.

With all of that said, the lady is still quite the cunt.

Fucking rare animals. Think they're sooooooo great cuz there isn't many of them. I'm gonna go get my shotgun. Gotta be a unicorn around here somewhere.

I would've been more impressed if she & Queequeg speared it, but I don't think it was strong enough to drag her away into the woods, caught up in the harpoon rope. Which would have been the only fitting end to the tale.

I'd hunt if I weren't such a pussy about killing an animal. I agree with everything you're saying, and I feel a little roll my eyes-ish when people who eat processed, hormone injected, disgusting slaughter-house condition raised animals are incensed by people who shoot deer for sustenance. I knew a lot of very poor people where I grew up, who would kill a deer and live for weeks off of it. It's healthier and more environment friendly than a steak from Ralphs or Albertsons.

I think most anti-hunters are incensed by those who hunt for "sport", not for sustenance. If you need to hunt to live and feed your family, fine. If you hunt because you like killing animals and mounting trophies, go fuck yourself.

You might want to spread that stereotype of entitlement and barbarism around to all Caucasians. "Manifest Destiny" towards the Animal Kingdom and the disrespect that goes along with it, is older than the United States.

I agree, and I feel the same way. My mom works with a Dr who is a world famous bow-hunter - the dude takes trips to Africa and kills zebras with his bow. ZEBRAS. I only wish someone would make him sit down and eat one of his whole fucking zebras.

However, I see a lot of animosity towards hunters in general with no fair evaluation of their intentions or self evaluation.

Is there that much of a difference between a deer head on the wall and some womans $400 leather boots? The intentions behind either action are clearly different, but both are about using dead animals as status symbols.

My point is, people haven't thought about how their day-to-day consumer routines, to realize that their culture is not any better than a hunter's, even a trophy hunter, simply because they don't think deeply enough about it.

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I would argue that the boots are probably sexier than the deer head. . .