ethical hunting practices Quotes

The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

Farre shooting never kild bird.

Don't hunt what you can't kill

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.