Hunting aint hunting anymore
#51
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: N.W. Wyoming
Posts: 57
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
HUNTER 59
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You can hunt on any public land in Wyoming, without an outfitter or guide except in a wilderness area. And how the G&F gets away with requiring a guide on US Forest (public) land in a designated wilderness is beyond me. YOU, meaning you, can go to the same wilderness 365 days a year, fish, hike, trap, back pack, horse back ride, ski, snow shoe, or walk naked on your hands, but you can not hunt in it. Go figure, it is protection for the outfitters. But seems to me, to be discriminatory.
I also consider myself a redneck, I work, pay taxes, hunt, carve antlers, hunt antlers, fish, go to church, had the same job 23 years, and drink an ocasional beer. I took offense to redsallisons stero types.
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By the way, it's required by Wyoming law for me to hire a guide,
I also consider myself a redneck, I work, pay taxes, hunt, carve antlers, hunt antlers, fish, go to church, had the same job 23 years, and drink an ocasional beer. I took offense to redsallisons stero types.
#52
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 41
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
I have been hunting public for about 30 years. I've killed a few Just recently I got a small farm to hunt on. And I must say that the hunting is the difference between night and day!!!!! I can honestly say that a 18 month old doe on my public land is much more wery than any of the deer that I have taken off the farm... Taking deer off this farm was like taking candy from a baby!!!! I still hunt both places and one thing I can honestly say is that I get more excited when I shot a doe or a small buck in my state forest than any of the nice deer I've taken off my farm... I guess what I'm trying to say is that hunting on public land will make a hunter out of ya. Just ask the Cuz or Toxy
Dude just remember one thing. Anybody can do what your doing. So the next time you look at your trohpy wall just remember you didn't earn any of them you bought your wall
Dude just remember one thing. Anybody can do what your doing. So the next time you look at your trohpy wall just remember you didn't earn any of them you bought your wall
#53
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Amarillo, TX
Posts: 456
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
i'm just as proud as i can be of my 8 point whitetail that i shot on free land this november. nothing these guys can offer will ever be as special as having my wife, daughter and son with me when i took him. when i heard my daughter say "look dad that ones HUGE" i knew that he was the one. my 8 pointer is not BC and he wasn't taken on high fenced property but the memory of the hunt is what makes it my trophy.
#54
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: WV
Posts: 4,484
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
ORIGINAL: Hunter_59
Ok, I'm lost here! I'm a redneck whitetail hunter that has never shot a 150 class buck but has seen dozens of em in my neck of the woods. I've saved up a wad of cash to hire a guide in Wyoming to go on this dream elk hunt this fall. Am I still a good ole boy that can come back to the whitetail woods or will I be tarred and feathered for going on this hunt? I'm spending a "wad" of cash to hire 1x1, and hunt a trophy area, on a wilderness horseback hunt. By the way, it's required by Wyoming law for me to hire a guide, I couldn't hunt "do it yourself" if I wanted to. I know I could go cheaper but spending the extra money will get me farther off the road and a chance to see a trophy bull. Does that make me any less of a hunter to want this type of hunt? By the way I've shot whitetails in their day beds at less that 20 yards. They never knew I was there! I consider myself a decent hunter!
Ok, I'm lost here! I'm a redneck whitetail hunter that has never shot a 150 class buck but has seen dozens of em in my neck of the woods. I've saved up a wad of cash to hire a guide in Wyoming to go on this dream elk hunt this fall. Am I still a good ole boy that can come back to the whitetail woods or will I be tarred and feathered for going on this hunt? I'm spending a "wad" of cash to hire 1x1, and hunt a trophy area, on a wilderness horseback hunt. By the way, it's required by Wyoming law for me to hire a guide, I couldn't hunt "do it yourself" if I wanted to. I know I could go cheaper but spending the extra money will get me farther off the road and a chance to see a trophy bull. Does that make me any less of a hunter to want this type of hunt? By the way I've shot whitetails in their day beds at less that 20 yards. They never knew I was there! I consider myself a decent hunter!
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#55
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
Hunter_59,
I too agree with what others have said, there is nothing wrong with what you are doing. I want to hunt alaska some day and when I do I will hire a guide. But I will not be the type to brag about the size of animal saying look at me, how great I am becaue I killed a huge bear, or moose and I bet I am the best hunter in Alaska. Or say that everyone is jelous becaue I hunted alaska and they didn't or couldn't. And they are rednecks becaue they don't seek out trophys.
I too agree with what others have said, there is nothing wrong with what you are doing. I want to hunt alaska some day and when I do I will hire a guide. But I will not be the type to brag about the size of animal saying look at me, how great I am becaue I killed a huge bear, or moose and I bet I am the best hunter in Alaska. Or say that everyone is jelous becaue I hunted alaska and they didn't or couldn't. And they are rednecks becaue they don't seek out trophys.
#56
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
To prove my point on how stupid people can be with a better than you attitude, just hop over to the bowhunting forum here in the hunting net and check out Captain backstrap post "How many of you"
Heck I will just copy it (the starting post) for all to see, its quite funney
Here it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quoting "Captain backstrap"
"How many of you "bowhunters" consider yourself to be the best bowhunter around??
I will boldly step forward and say that I feel like I am the best bowhunter around my neck of the woods. I honestly do. I wouldn't say that there's noone better period, just that I think i'm better than anyone else I know. Not cocky, just confident.
Just wondering how many of you feel the same??? "
Heck I will just copy it (the starting post) for all to see, its quite funney
Here it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quoting "Captain backstrap"
"How many of you "bowhunters" consider yourself to be the best bowhunter around??
I will boldly step forward and say that I feel like I am the best bowhunter around my neck of the woods. I honestly do. I wouldn't say that there's noone better period, just that I think i'm better than anyone else I know. Not cocky, just confident.
Just wondering how many of you feel the same??? "
#57
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Beautiful Western Montana
Posts: 2,308
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
EKM see if I understand the rules correctly: Its ok for the "bandwagon" to come on here and downride, make false accusations, name call and belittle those who choose to hunt in trophy areas and/or hire guides, thats perfectly ok and acceptible? Yet when someone trys to defend such ways of hunting thats class warfare, "classes of hunting" or whatever the catchphrase of the day is. Thats ok? Doesn't quite seem fair too me, but I'll go along with the rules, this aint my place its somebody elses.
#60
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location:
Posts: 2
RE: Hunting aint hunting anymore
I must disagree with a lot of you and agree with others. I’ve killed lots of animals through the years. I don’t scope any of them. But the ones I have on my walls are trophies no matter where or how I got them. You may come to my home and say I got one bigger than that one or Wow! where did you get that one. But each has a long winded story and that’s what really makes it a trophy to me.
I've hunted for turkeys a time or 2 thru the year where I was done 20 minutes after I got out of the truck. And other times there were monster deer all around me I couldn't get a shot at. The hunting was done days before I had a weapon in my hands.
So just because you seen some guy on your TV killing an animal and you don’t like the way he did it. It’s TV, the movie Mars Attack wasn’t real. It was just a movie!
I've hunted for turkeys a time or 2 thru the year where I was done 20 minutes after I got out of the truck. And other times there were monster deer all around me I couldn't get a shot at. The hunting was done days before I had a weapon in my hands.
So just because you seen some guy on your TV killing an animal and you don’t like the way he did it. It’s TV, the movie Mars Attack wasn’t real. It was just a movie!