This is a very nice photo, but; I'm pretty sure that it is a hunting blind instead of a hunting shack. there is no sign of a outhouse anywhere. I wouldn't mind having the opportunity to hunt out of it, it sure looks roomy and the deer are probably very use to it.

Yeah, nothing like spreading some corn and then going in the cute little shack and killing the deer who comes to eat it. Now that's liven!

Going GREEN...my youngest son hunting from a ground blind constructed from deadfall

So sad that The Wyandotte Patch finds a photo of a place used to hide from and then ambush and murder animals to be desirable at this point in human evolution. What's next? Submit your photo's of your "kill"? Oh wait! I see you've added a photo of someone posing with his weapon! Super!

Kim maybe you should spend a little time in a hunting shack and watch the deer starve to death in the woods. And when you leave pray that you don't hit one with your car..But you will probally tells us next that you don't eat meat or wear leather or fur...

David, that's the standard retort and it's ridiculous. Hopefully cars hitting deers are accidents not planned slaughters. As for starving, in SE Michigan they have plenty of corn and soybeans to supplement their natural browse. Get out of the blind and stop baiting and start hunting like a man.

To all of you ignorant persons, to suggest that baiting is taking place was not in David's statement. Secondly, if you had to rely on foraging and hunting, instead of having a slaughterhouse do it for you, you all would starve to death. Hunting has taken a bad rap because of persons with no respect, just as hippies have morphed themselves into " activists" the true hunters respect the environment more than people as yourselves, enjoy vast amounts of nature and have been deeper in the woods without their iPhones and Starbucks to enjoy what God has given us. So before you choose to open your ignorant mouths and respond in the same way, open your minds to nature and the splendor of Gods gifts as the vast majority of us that hunt do.

Get a little blood on your hands and you will truly appreciate your place in the natural order of things. Do your killing by proxy and remain insulated from reality. Your assumptions are asinine and reveal either hypocrisy or ignorance. Much blood is spilled on your behalf and masking your cowardice with contrite critiques leaves you no less culpable. Taking the life of an animal is bittersweet, but you woludn't know about that. Your meat magically appears in the refrigerated section of your market compliments of the "Meat Fairy".

You assume too much, Frank. We do not eat meat, period. No factory farms for us. And I really do understand people eating what they kill, but never hold up your deer kill to show me, with a big grin on your face. I don't find it entertaining.

I just don't understand how anyone can get pleasure in taking a life. You might justify it by saying it is only an animal, but regardless, it is still a life. Activists are not hippies, they are compassionate people that care about and respect all forms of life and want to speak up for the animals that do not have a voice and can not speak for themselves. If hunters really had respect for nature and the splendor of God's gifts, then they would also have respect and appreciation for all of God's creatures and would not feel the need to prove their place in the natural order of things. In this day and age, the need for hunting has become obsolete. It is done for pleasure, not out of necessity. Yes, you can buy your meat at a store, but you can also abstain from eating meat as well. Eating meat is a personal choice, but it is not something that is required as part of a nutritious diet. I am not here to preach to anyone that they should become a vegetarian or an animal activist. I am not naive enough to think that hunters will see my point of view. The only thing I am saying is that hunters enjoy hunting for their own selfish pleasures and for the thrill of the kill, not because it is a necessity and not out of a respect for nature. The truth is, hunting is a cold and heartless sport where people get pleasure in taking a life, even if that life belongs to an animal.

For the most part I understand what your saying, however I disagree about people not needing to hunt. You really only have to go up to Ubly, Bad Axe etc to see that the people living there do need to hunt, to feed their familys.There is a program set up by the State of Michigan where hunters can donate part of the meat to local food banks to feed people in the Metro area, read about it at this link.
http://sportsmenagainsthunger.org/

For most of us, thankfully, we can decide what we want to eat and when.A bucolic scene of a hunting blind has devolved in to a name calling dialog, With little understanding of why people are who they are.I, personally don't believe Michigan beet farmers are white trash.It's just what they put in their freezers to make it through the winter in Michigan.
Perhaps if everyone that wants to leave a comment one way or the other pledges to donate a can of food to a food bank, if you want to name call, make it five cans.Then, we might have a productive dialog,

Just sayin', from a hippies point of view.:)

Last time I looked, there was no whole foods in any of the Pointes, so post in your own patch, maybey ferndale or royal oak or ann arbor. hunters do choose to hunt for various reasons and shouldn't be labeled by ignorant white women as white trash. Also, yes hunting is taking a life, but is much more a spiritual experience than the mass of killing and mistreating of animals that are led to slaughter for even your "whole foods" display. Not all hunting is about the thrill of the kill as ignorant people state, but you wouldnt know or care to. Being at deer camp is about togetherness with friends, learning and respecting nature and conserving wildlife. It's about getting up early and going to bed early. It's about learning the behavior of animals in their respective environments. since the dawn of man there has been hunting and gathering, and there always will be. You can continue to chow down on those delicious legumes and seeds and such, make my meal well rounded with every food group in moderation. Lastly, hippies and activists alike are drawn to humanizing animals as cute and cuddly ever since Bambi, maybey all of you need to get out and see natures splendor instead of living in an idealistic lifestyle watching Disney movies that glorify animals intelligence as humanistic and having souls.

I don't need to watch a Disney movie to make me think that animals have intelligence and souls. Of course they do! Animals nurture and care for their babies. They can think and feel and they definitely experience pain and fear. They fear for their lives in the same way that we do. I have been around wild animals enough to know that they definitely do have souls. Each animal is special and unique and should not be killed for sport. Yes, I understand that in certain circumstances people have to hunt in order to survive, but right now that is not the case if we are having this discussion around here.

1. I do not believe that people who hunt are white trash. Some are and some aren't.
2. I do not believe that most hunters do it for "spiritual" reasons. That is the idealistic point of view, people imagining that they are somehow like native Americans in their thinking.
3. I believe that most men still go to hunting camps to get away from their families for a while. Some drink too much. Some don't.
4. My objection is to baiting deer which was legalized in much of the lower peninsula again this year. I also object to people hiding in blinds and shooting deer. Those methods are cowardly in my view. I do not object to hunting deer in the way that my father did it.
5. Even in the thumb, we are lucky to have social services which can provide a safety net to families in need. Most people in the world do not have those services available to them. We do.

the reason hunters kill is because they feel inferior......so they have to make up for it by killing an animal......HOW SICK IS THAT??????.....GHANDI would not kill......animals do have souls and feelings not like many humans!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lyn is either a child or an uneducated person or both. I don't hunt to get away from my family, I call every day. I DO think it is a gift from God to hunt and is a spiritual event for me and I say thank you to God and the harvest I just obtained, when I do. I do not need to bait to attract a deer. I do not think I am a native American, but some people think that's the only population that have a spiritual connection when they are one with nature. I do think that animals were put here on earth for us to rule over and I can find Bible passages for those here that are not agnostic. I am part of a group, maybe minority, of hunters who don't qualify under the white trash, boozer, hillbilly, kill everything in site, people they are portrayed to be. Btw, it has not been proven either way that animals that we eat such as deer, have feelings or souls. since the people here who have never hunted or have ever harvested an animal for consumption keep thinking animals do, well ignorance is bliss!!! Since I have harvested more than a few animals for consumption, and yes game, I think not.

To James Douglas, I was not speaking on your behalf and I did not say that all hunters enjoy the thrill of the kill. As I previously stated, I do understand that some people must hunt in order to survive. Yes, you may go out of your way to be responsible for utilizing as much of the deer as possible and I am glad to hear that you leave something for the other animals . You seem to be a conscientious person and I appreciate that. Let's be real though. How many hunters do you think are as considerate and responsible as yourself? Do you really think most people are out there hunting so that they can be kind citizens and donate all of the parts of the deer to those in need? Let's just be honest about what hunting really is about. It is not the same thing as picking fruit from a tree or crops from a field. No matter how you justify it, it is still killing an innocent animal for pleasure, not for necessity. The bottom line is that it is taking a life.

To James Douglas, You state that I shop in places that are located where there used to be wooded areas and that the animals have lost their lives for my "selfish thrills". You foolishly judge me. I find it extremely upsetting and I am very opposed to the fact that there is so much unnecessary development. I am deeply saddened that animals have lost their homes so that we can have more strip malls. If it were up to me, this would never have happened. I would take the woods over stores any day. Yes, I shop in these stores, but I am not the one responsible for putting them there. They were there long before I was. I did not ask for these stores to be built and I certainly would never have advocated that they be built if it meant destroying wooded areas. My only "selfish thrill" is caring about animals and trying to speak for them since they can't speak for themselves.

Lyn Parker - you are not a credit to your cause. You sound, and your words look, totally out of control.

Please keep your comments focused on the issue(s) and not the individuals commenting. Thanks

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Mr. Douglas, you, like Lyn Parker, have lost respect in my eyes. I don't appreciate being called unintelligent just because I disagreed with you. I was agreeing with some of what you said until you compared Washington ambushing the British with people ambushing deer. That is just downright silly. You know as well as I do that a hunter who does not have a good shot should not take that shot. Perhaps modern hunters need to do more target practice. You are coming off as very pompous and know it all now. Should have quit while you were ahead.

James looking foward to hear from you.......lyn's husband

To hold up PETA membership as a badge of honor in your defense of animals is like supplying the rope to a lynch mob. PETA takes in millions of dollars a year in the name of "rescuing" animels; yet the one and only animal shelter it runs (in Norfolk, VA) has an over 98% kill rate. PETA isn't about saving or protecting animals. It is about self loathing and hatred for the human race. The unbalanced rants and unsupportable statements of its members and founders speak volumes for it's real intentions. Try visiting petakillspets.com for a real viewpoint of the aims of animal rights groups.

As for the statements that even in the thumb area of Michigan, there is no real need for hunting to control the deer population, that there exists sufficient browse in the field to support all the deer up here - wrong! Deer cannot browse on something buried under feet of snow, as was the case last winter! I live in the North Branch area, and every winter there is deer die-off up here due to starvation. Far more humane, a hunters bullet than the slow and agonizing death of sarvation. And yes, many of the farmers and others up here rely on hunting of game to feed their families. The working poor often don't qualify for public assistance.

Thank you all for your comments and opinions. Remember, however, it is important to stay focused on the issue(s) and not the individuals commenting.

I really enjoyed the photo, it reminded me of being "home" in Michigan.

We are closing the comments as the discussion has deteriorated.