Hunting

Hunters, as described by Merriam Webster's New Dictionary, are individuals who hunt game. In previous generations (and currently in some areas around the world) hunters were held in high esteem as the members of society who were able to search out, track, find, kill and bring home meat for the family (or tribe). In today's more modern society, hunters in the traditional sense are more likely to hunt game for sport as the primary purpose rather than to fill the family freezer with meat; not that such actions are not a secondary consideration, they certainly are, but they are not now considered as the primary purpose for hunting.

If putting food on the table was the primary concern, most hunters could do much better by visiting the local supermarket, at least in Texas that is. A recent report determined that "the most expensive meat a Texas hunter will eat...
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