Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
02-23-2008, 09:31 PM
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
ORIGINAL: MOhunter46
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ORIGINAL: mikemac10
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NO. I do it for my enjoyment and mine alone. I don't do it for kudos, pay, livelyhoodor to top anyone else. I do it for the meat and the satisfaction of hearing TWACK after a well thought out plan. Am I good at it? Somewhat. Do I care if anyone else cares? Not at all. It's purely a personnal thing to me.
02-24-2008, 09:42 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
Huckleberry, the military instillscertain beliefs in all their soldiers. One being integrity, the second being excellence in everything, and lastly putting service before oneself. I have lived my life with these beliefs and two other things the military drives into their non commissioned officers: 1) accomplishment of the mission; and 2) looking after the welfare of those I am entrusted to look after.
Where am I going with this? Well, every time I go to the woods to hunt deer, I am on a mission. I plan to accomplish that mission and get frustrated when I am unable to. Whether it is from not being able to get a clean shot or if I blow the shot, I am angered with myself for not setting up correctly or whatever caused the hunt not to be successful. Does it take the pleasure of hunting out of it? No, I still enjoy the communion with nature and I continue to go back for more. Each time I make note of what happened and what I have to do to improve my skills and avoid the same failure in the future.
I believe most hunters are the same way whether or not they realize it.
Where am I going with this? Well, every time I go to the woods to hunt deer, I am on a mission. I plan to accomplish that mission and get frustrated when I am unable to. Whether it is from not being able to get a clean shot or if I blow the shot, I am angered with myself for not setting up correctly or whatever caused the hunt not to be successful. Does it take the pleasure of hunting out of it? No, I still enjoy the communion with nature and I continue to go back for more. Each time I make note of what happened and what I have to do to improve my skills and avoid the same failure in the future.
I believe most hunters are the same way whether or not they realize it.
02-24-2008, 11:21 AM
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
I guess my view of a professional deer hunter is a person that makes their living through hunting in the industry. Lee and Tiffany and the Kiskys are good examples of this. Their job is to hunt and promote their sponsors. That is what I consider a professional. I guess we'll all just have to agree that the definition of a professional hunter is subjective.
02-24-2008, 11:26 AM
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
ORIGINAL: Paul L Mohr
Nobody is paying me to hunt, as a matter of fact it usually costs me money so I don't consider myself a professional hunter.
Actually I'm not a professional anything, I am a laborer. A well trained monkey could probably do my job to be honest. And according to my boss it might do it with less attitude
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Paul
Nobody is paying me to hunt, as a matter of fact it usually costs me money so I don't consider myself a professional hunter.
Actually I'm not a professional anything, I am a laborer. A well trained monkey could probably do my job to be honest. And according to my boss it might do it with less attitude
.Paul
02-24-2008, 11:36 AM
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
I do not see a person that promotes products by huntingas a pro. I see them as salesman or saleswoman. The majority of them go to lodges an places where the stand are already hung an waiting on them. The pros in my opinion our the guides an people that help them be sucessful by doing all the homework an countless hours of scouting an monitoring the game an keeping track of where they are at to better theodds.That's a pro in my opinion.
02-24-2008, 12:03 PM
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
ORIGINAL: AF Hunter
As the subject line says, do you consider yourself a professional hunter? If you say no, please explain why. After we've had some input, I'll fill you in on the rest of the story.
As the subject line says, do you consider yourself a professional hunter? If you say no, please explain why. After we've had some input, I'll fill you in on the rest of the story.
02-24-2008, 02:55 PM
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
ORIGINAL: Goodgrief
After more serious thought on your question AF, I poked around a bit, and found something that may describe me as a hunter a little better.....Pro-Am; People pursuing amateur activities to professional standards. For Pro-Am's leisure is not passive consumerism, but active and participatory, it involves the deployment of publicly accredited knowledge and skeeels often built up over a long career, which has involved sacrfices and frustrations.
ORIGINAL: AF Hunter
As the subject line says, do you consider yourself a professional hunter? If you say no, please explain why. After we've had some input, I'll fill you in on the rest of the story.
As the subject line says, do you consider yourself a professional hunter? If you say no, please explain why. After we've had some input, I'll fill you in on the rest of the story.
02-24-2008, 02:55 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do You Consider Yourself A Professional Hunter?
I'd rather think of Pro-Am as being a "professional amateur" or a professional amateur where you like doing something and continue to persue it, but will never beproficient enough to become a professional.Now on the other hand an "Am-Pro" would be an amateur who does something to professional standards.
For many things in life that I enjoy doing, in accordance with the above definitions I am definately a Pro-Am in many of those things. i.e. golfing, carpentry, intra-relational communications, etc.
For many things in life that I enjoy doing, in accordance with the above definitions I am definately a Pro-Am in many of those things. i.e. golfing, carpentry, intra-relational communications, etc.