Apologies in advance if there is a better community for this question.

Just out of curiosity, how many folks around here hunt?

I ask because I don’t encounter too many people far left of center (especially in my geographic region) who hunt. Fewer still, are those who keep and train dogs for this purpose.

Not intending to start a debate, just checking the barometer around here.

  • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    We are all members of the proletariat

    how sure are you of that? because from what i understand, most hunters are either landowners, or related to landowners. the requirements for hunting dont really fit working class constraints.

    • GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      16 days ago

      Being a landowner is not incompatible with being a proletariat. Moreover, hunting does not require ownership of private land — a great many hunters are not landowners. They either benefit from family or acquaintances who are landowners, knock on doors of complete strangers and ask permission to hunt their land, or — if they are fortunate enough to live in a state with an abundance of public land open to hunting — they hunt public land.

      Surely, there are those who only hunt estates, ranches, preserves, etc., but I’d wager they make a up only small, but disproportionately represented percentage of the hunting population due to their visible wealth.

      As I said in another comment, many of the hunters I encounter are of humble means, many are immigrants, and most are working class.

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        15 days ago

        Surely, there are those who only hunt estates, ranches, preserves, etc., but I’d wager they make a up only small, but disproportionately represented percentage of the hunting population due to their visible wealth.

        Interesting. I haven’t thought about that