Shooting Down Hunting

Re: “For Women, the Game Is Afoot” (Jan. 10), to 15-year-old hunter Sarah Salukas, who says: “A lot of people are surprised when they learn I hunt deer, but no one has been negative about it.” I say: Perhaps you haven’t talked to the right people--like myself, who is disgusted, horrified and appalled that a young person would amuse herself by killing. To murder a young, healthy deer whose only crime is to be in the path of Sarah’s arrow is obscene, criminal, totally unethical and a mockery of philosophical, religious, moral and just plain humane values. From hunting with bow and arrow to mass murder with automatic weapons is a skip and a jump. I would hate to be in Sarah’s shoes when karmic retribution kicks in for all those innocents she murdered for fun.

--RACHEL ROSENTHAL

Los Angeles

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Now that “the number of women hunters is growing,” perhaps they can bring into the sport a more feminine gentleness for the hunted animals. There are times when her arrow might miss its mark and lodges into the eye socket of a doe, which then bounds off to die a long, agonizing death. Let’s hope women hunters will be more determined to find the animal and put it out of its misery so as not to dampen a glorious day of hunting and killing.

--GEORGE WOOD

Malibu