I don't know if you call this hunting

Nice shooting and very cool Hummingbird!! As to your post title " I don't know if you call this hunting" If you consider it hunting then it is hunting!!

Not many admit it but we all do it from time to time... (I have and do)
I use the meat so I call it hunting...and I do go out in the woods and hunt all the time.
In the backyard at least you have time to place a good kill shot

"billydjann"Not many admit it but we all do it from time to time... (I have and do)
I use the meat so I call it hunting...and I do go out in the woods and hunt all the time.
In the backyard at least you have time to place a good kill shot

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So what word would you describe killing the animal, just to kill it, or for fun? On the topic though, yeah some places have way too many squirrels or rabbits that only can survive because of human interaction.

Agree with Billy.
If you eat the thing it's hunting.
Paul

I do animal control work and have hunted for skunks and rats, but you wouldn't catch me trying to eat one. Same with possums and coon. Even though some folks do eat the coon and possums. If your looking for, chasing or just plain waiting in ambush you are essentially hunting.

I took home and cooked a raccoon once...... did you notice I said once...

In my opinion this is hunting and takes a level of skill. I do the same kind of hunting to kill pests and have no plans to eat them. I'm attempting to grow fruit, nuts and veggies... and rodents, including tree rats are not welcome here.

A neighbor had racoon problem and trapped one in a live trap and asked me to kill it - no skill involved, so I wouldn't call that hunting. That is were I'd draw the line between hunting and execution, and I don't mind executing pests humanely either. If you live in the country or make your living off the land such actions are necessary.

High velocity projectile administered by an individual utilizing any device, under the control of said individual, to deliver the projectile at or about the intended living biologic, with the intent to dispatch for subsistence or population control. Woe...did I say that out loud? Hell ya...."hunting" fosho brother!

Sure its hunting. If your quarry is a wild animal that has a chance to get away, its hunting. I like squirrel hunting in the big woods but its not near as efficient as killing them off feeders at the farm or in the back yard. Just because its "easier" doesn't mean its not hunting. 

It brings up an interesting thought about measuring a hunter's skill. Most of us today would probably agree that the harder your hunting circumstances are when you harvest an animal, the more skill it usually takes to be consistently successful in said circumstances. Wherefore we would say that the hunter who can regularly kill half-a-dozen squirrels in the big woods in an afternoon probably has more skills than the hunter who can consistently kill two dozen off a bird feeder in the back yard in the same amount of time. We measure how "good" a hunter is by whether he can make the kill while handicapped by a primitive weapon or an adverse environment. The end result (the kill) isn't what matters as much as how you get there. Yet in an earlier time when people regularly hunted for daily sustenance, the "good" hunter was the one that was most efficient at producing meat. The back yard squirrel hunter would be the "skilled" hunter because he knows how to kill more squirrels quickly and consistently than the woods hunter.

Its basically the difference between hunting as a survival tool versus hunting as a sport. Just food for thought. 

Oh my gosh....
Good one Bullfrog..... very good !!!!

Any thoughts on the Lion and the Dentist ?

"jamieinmd"Any thoughts on the Lion and the Dentist ?

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Wouldn't want to be the dentist.
Wouldn't want to be the lion either.

The lion's troubles are over. The Dentist's problems are JUST starting. Personally, I never understood trophy hunting but I support subsistence hunting and varminting. I understand killing rats and the occasional bunch of flies, but to lure an animal as majestic as a lion to be murdered in what could only be described as a lingering death, to be poached is just totally beyond my understanding. I'm glad all I shoot anymore are air guns.

Jamie