Every human on this planet lives off the land. Or maybe I should say, land and sea. None of us can get any of the things we need to live except from "the land"!
Loved your logic KKid!
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You are being tested Redsleeves! And failing!

Yukon254, I know guiding is your livelihood, and lots of people require your services, and it is required in some areas....I guess for myself I just cant grasp the concept. How sideways is a persons lifestyle that they need to pay huge money just to "kill" a critter. Question..., since we have sort of determined that killing a critter is part of the overall picture of "harvesting" one, do sport and trophy hunters call what they do "harvesting" or "killing"?

I can't see paying for a $7000.00 moose hunt, having a guide show you how, where, and what, and then you pull the trigger, get the critter out and ship it to a butcher/ taxidermist akin to a farmer doing the same for his crop...I know the experience is what they pay for, but I would never pay what they do, and still call it "harvesting"

Yes, you "harvested" it I guess by definition, but...it just seems different from what Ryan or even Redsleeves claim to do. Are both considered harvesting?

I have no real opinion, it just seems like two different worlds using the same term. Maybe the term is all encompassing...

" How sideways is a persons lifestyle that they need to pay huge money just to "kill" a critter."



Well Hutchy, it ain't just people paying for a guide that spend way more money and time harvesting than the end product is worth. Fishing, Hunting, or trapping.

Your comment probably covered 90 % plus of the harvesters.

Ain't that the truth. Tally up all you spend to trap, hunt, fish and you might be ahead just buying!!!

Hey i just want Yukon254 to get me a moose hunt with him in the Yukon for 7k and i will Kill, Harvest or anything else he would like to call it for that price.

I think that "harvest" sort of implies that you'll come out ahead.

In the case of the $7,000 moose hunt, I would say that the guide is doing the harvesting, when the client is ripe. If not for the moose, there would be no client to harvest.

Lord forgive me the dumb farmer ,I made a mistake.

I always try to harvest them in the neck.