One of the basics tenets I adopted when I became a hunter is I wouldn't kill something I didn't intend to eat.
When I said I wasn't fond of trophy hunting I should have been more specific. I meant shooting an animal just to have a trophy, big cats and brown bears come to mind. I realize that when one goes to Africa most plains game gets utilized by the locals not by the hunter. Seems backwards to me, but as long as it's getting used I'm OK with it. Not so big cats I imagine, perhaps I'm wrong. I know cougar is great meat here in the states, actually had some this year at a game dinner, quite good.
From what I understand black bear meat gets utilized sometimes, brown bear, never.
Silvers, I didn't mean to include the trophy whitetail hunting that's your passion, I'm sure the animal gets put to good use. In fact I have nothing but admiration for guys that can pass up a 150, probably because I'm such a lousy deer hunter myself. I'm happy to put a nice fat doe in the freezer which I haven't done yet this year.
Just curious, are you allowed only one deer/year in Saskatchewan?
