There are precious few hobbies that are SO outrageous they can offend the decadent Hollyweird class. Unless you participate in something humanity has done since the dawn of time.
Traditional faith is the obvious big taboo, but there’s another one close behind it.
The Oscar Award set would gladly put on a spread with some rare mushroom special-ordered and flown in from the Andes or an aromatic from Borneo or whatever and think it’s the most natural thing in the world.
But tell them you’ve got a freezer full of meat that you personally carried home from the great outdoors and they’ll look at you with the sort of horror you might see if someone unexpectedly punted the Thanksgiving turkey off the table and across the room.
No words needed. None could even be spoken. “Oh no! One of ‘us’ is a hunter too.”
Surprise, sunshine. There’s a lot more than ‘just one’ of you that feed their family the old fashion way: drop it, dress it, and throw it on the grill.
When people started getting bent out of shape about Ella Langley’s old hunting pics, Daily Mail went looking around to find out which OTHER A-listers could tie the tinkerpots’ knickers in a knot.
Turns out, they found quite a few. Even some you might not expect.
I mean, Chris Pratt and Kurt Russel? Probably nobody’s all that surprised they might like to put the bam to Bambi.
‘It’s an opportunity for me to explore what parts of me are animal and what parts of me are human.’
He also proudly details his hobby on social media by sharing photos of his kills and snapshots of himself decked out in camouflage gear, alongside gushing captions explaining he is ‘really excited for hunting season.’
The Jurassic Park star was previously asked on X about his ‘favorite thing to hunt,’ to which Pratt replied: ‘I like it all but it’s hard to beat a good elk hunt.’ — DailyMail
Miranda Lambert is said to have dropped the deer they served at her wedding dinner. That’s honestly a pretty great claim to fame.
But would you have expected this quote out of ... Eva Longoria?
‘I can handle a gun. I could skin a deer, I could skin a pig. I can pluck quail — you name it, I’ve done it.’ — DailyMail
Of course Shaq is always good for a spicy quote, too:
In a video uploaded to social media at the time, the 7ft1in former athlete declared: ‘I smell pigs. Some people need nightvision. I am the nightvision.’
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It has seemingly been a longtime hobby for the star – targeting everything from waterfowl to goats – and he even devoted a section of his 2001 autobiography Shaq Talks Back to his hunting adventures.
In 2016, he also joined survivalist Bear Grylls for an episode of Running Wild.–DailyMail
If he’s running with Grylls, he’s not playing around.
That’s not even the complete list. But the point has been made. Hunting isn’t just something ‘those’ people do in ‘that’ part of the country. It’s part of the birthright of EVERY American. It stands in SHARP contrast to the England where only royalty is permitted to hunt in the King’s forest, on penalty of death.
In America, there ARE no kings who can claim such a right as their own private prerogative. But we’ve drifted a long way from our Agricultural roots where the harvesting of animals for food.
Was was once a natural step in the process of feeding the family, has been replaced with the intermediary of grocery stores and Uber Eats. With the unpleasantness of a kill comfortably out of sight and out of mind, it’s easy to think of hunting as somehow barbaric.
And when it’s put in such ‘moral’ terms, many well-meaning Christians nod right along with them.
Of course, the only way you can agree with any of that is if you have been very selective in which parts of the Bible you choose to ignore. Because it has an AWFUL lot to say about how to understand the morality of the meat on your plate. But probably NOT what most moralizers THINK it has to say about it.
Doug has two books on the topic, with two different audiences and emphasis.
For the Christians who accidentally find themselves attending the Church of PETA and wondering whether maybe, just MAYBE they’ve taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque, we’ve got this one to tackle the theology:
If a person looked to Scripture and paid particular attention to the passages within the Bible that address the topic of hunting, then they’d walk away thinking not only is hunting animals tolerated but it is endorsed by God. And that’s exactly what this little book is about: proving that God, from Genesis to Revelation, is extremely cool with hunters and hunting. I’ll go out on a biblical limb and claim right off the bat that you cannot show me, through the balance of the Bible, that the God of the Scripture is against the responsible killing and the grilling of the animals He created. ~Doug Giles
But Doug has also got a great book out for raising kids you can hunt WITH instead of FOR in our crazy culture.
It’s chock full of all kinds of wild facts of the net BENEFIT hunters with proper conservationist priorities bring to the population of struggling species woven in for extra value. It’s a kids’ book that one reviewer says became an instant favourite with his kid: asked for at bedtime night after night.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Kids & Hunting
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Kids & Hunting is a hilarious gold mine of facts and fun regarding the biblical mandate to put the bam to Bambi.
In this full-color, full-attitude book, Henry gives ten solid reasons why hunters rule and tree huggers drool. This is the perfect book for young hunters just starting out in the field.
If you have hunting buddies who are raising the next generation of hunters please do them a favor and send them this book.
It is pure fire.
Doug Giles is an avid hunter and multiple bestselling author of thirty different books. This is his first stab at a children’s book and it ain’t too shabby.
