What is it with you guy's that hunt, why do you need to stuff this poor dead animal? that you have just killed, then hang it on a wall? I don't get it. The reason I ask, is because my husband hunts and yes I have dead animals hanging on my wall that I absolutley hate!!! He has never given me a good answer. So maybe someone here could explain the trophy thing to me. I personally would rather see them in my backyard then hanging dead on my wall. Why can't you just take a picture of it? Instead of having to mount it.

I'm looking for good answers here, not just it's a guy thing!

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Not All Who Wander Are Lost .J. R. R. Tolkein

A trophy is a sign of accomplishment and helps remind people of good times--It usually has much more meaning to the person who did the deed than passers by.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

You should relegate his trophies to a specific room of the house. Anyway he collects them to be able to prove the stories as well as to remember the victory.

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And from the board:
Yes, that's me. You were able to convince me that I should not be a proud democrat anymore. I'm kinda scared about this--will you hold me? - ProudDem

I drive a huge hummer, and my bumper sticker says I hate gay people. - Lolita715, democrat nutjob

I think game trophies are stupid. Most women hate em and it's expensive as hell
to have something mounted...What's the point, Proof?..Well heck, a $10 disposable camera will do that.
IMO, it's nothing more than an ego thing...Ole bubba can stand around with the other bubbas, scratch his nuts, crack a beer and say, "yep I kilt it, aren't I da man"? Then ya have the meek lil accountant that takes a
guided trip to Alaska an shoots a bear. Has it mounted and on display to prove what a "MAN" he really is!
That's the way I see it.

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Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

PC=Public Cancer....and it's TERMINAL..IMO.

So all you trophies are in the kitchen mr. P ? :dance:

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

Nahhh...The few I have are from little league baseball and competitive shooting, made from metal and wood.
Yes, I did hunt and I still fish...But even if I took a "trophy" Trout or Bass, I'd turn it loose, after the photo of course.

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Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

PC=Public Cancer....and it's TERMINAL..IMO.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: My thoughts exactly!!!!!

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Not All Who Wander Are Lost .J. R. R. Tolkein

I think trophies are kinda stupid and pretty ugly and I hunt alot. The camera is always a better way to go. As for the act of hunting...It is fucking exciting and damn near impossible to explain to folks who have never done it.

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"The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness." Mark Twain

You got something against eating em ?

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

Well YEAHHHHHHH...ever bite down on a piece of metal or wood? Geezzzzzzz...

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Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

PC=Public Cancer....and it's TERMINAL..IMO.

Anybody who doesn't hunt cannot possibly ever understand the feeling of cameraderie, of getting back to basics that one gets when out in the field. Now I personally don't hunt big game but I can see the reason why people mount trophies, hell most of the time they aren't even trophies but an accomplishment that they want to remember. It reminds them of a simpler time.

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Communism is a great idea-Charleston Chad 9/11/06

OCA...Bubba says, BS..
He says if it were just to remind us of a simpler time, he'd have Billy Jeans' ass mounted on the wall.

It's ego..and that's what Bubba said, while he scatched his nuts and cracked his beer.

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Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

PC=Public Cancer....and it's TERMINAL..IMO.

Could be in some cases, in others maybe not. This is one of those topics to where if you aren't a participant its impossible to explain.

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Communism is a great idea-Charleston Chad 9/11/06

they can't mount their penis on the wall so the dead whatever will have to do

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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." ~ Albert Camus

I don't really understand that either.

I've never gone hunting, but if I did I'd shoot the thing in the head and then eat it.

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