I fish.  I don’t hunt.  I don’t have a problem with hunting or hunters, but I do have a problem with one aspect of hunting.  I don’t like hunting something that is semi-tame and being cared for as if it were domesticated.  I’ve noticed that a lot of hunters are spending a lot of money to go to ranches and hunt various animals that are being bred and fed like a herd of cattle.  I don’t get it.  I had this discussion with some hunters and they tended to believe that there is no difference between baiting a fishing hole and hunting something that’s been raised to have certain genetics and been cared for to utilize those genetics.  I don’t buy this argument.  The proper analogy would be fishing in my son’s fish tank.  If you feed something in particular spot and get  them to coming there everyday for feed so you can stand there and shoot them while they eat said feed then there is no hunting involved.  That’s just shooting.  You don’t have to have any specialized knowledge of how the animal lives or how it reacts to certain weather patterns.  All you need is a weapon and a big fat check to hand to the people in charge.  How is that hunting?  I guess I could go and pay a fishing guide to put me on some big fish and let me catch them.  I guess that’s similar in a way.  I’ve never done it so I’m not totally sure.  I will say that if a guide or someone feeds the fish in a particular location so that when you go to that location you are assured of catching a big one then I’ll agree.  That’s the very same thing and that’s not fishing.  So I guess they are the same thing.  However, neither of those things encompass the spirit of hunting and fishing.  It’s about the experience of figuring out what you are doing, of what works.  It’s about the knowledge that comes with this understanding.  It’s got to be about the feeling of accomplishment when you’ve done the right things and it paid off.  Otherwise you just bought yourself a very expensive piece of meat and maybe some nice horns to display.  I say spending all day  catching or shooting nothing is better for the soul than buying the best the lake or field has to offer.  I’m going to stick with this argument for now.  I have no money, nor bucks, to try it the other way.  I’ll stick with being morally superior, in my own mind, if not capitally inferior.  If you are going to have someone virtually do it for you, then the most important item in your arsenal is lot’s of doe.