Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
04-08-2008, 11:36 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
Kyle- Thanks for the compliments, it makes a guy feel pretty damn good coming from guys like yourself!! Don't change a thing about yourself or your way of hunting. Its excellent!! Your parents and your Grandpa sure did well with you.
Bigcountry- I've learned a ton on the Tech side of these Traditional bows from you. I'm stupid on the Tech part and I've gained allot of knowledge from yourself. Don't sell yourself short my friend, you've have done me wonders and I thank you for that. I do need to get another recurve for a back up in case I have problems with mine. Any suggestions?
Bigcountry- I've learned a ton on the Tech side of these Traditional bows from you. I'm stupid on the Tech part and I've gained allot of knowledge from yourself. Don't sell yourself short my friend, you've have done me wonders and I thank you for that.
I do need to get another recurve for a back up in case I have problems with mine. Any suggestions?
04-08-2008, 11:37 AM
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Location: Southeast, Va
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
I just like humble people I guess, I think it is wrong to go about hunting as a game of challenge that needs to be mastered. I may be wrong, but I will believe this til I die. Let me say it this way, hunters are a band of brothers, everyone is welcome, most of us have earned our stripes with great dedication and disappointment over several years,sometimes we are rewarded but most of the time we are not, with an animal that is. I began hunting for the love of the woods and nature and for the occasional kill if I were so blessed, I still hunt for the same generalreasons I did when I was 12, I love the freedom and possibilties. Hunting is not about mastering or conquering game, it is not all for the challenge, it is for the love of our tradition and history of mankind. If you think Im wrong fine, I think your wrong, so what, that is how most of the world is, my feelings are not hurt, Im not angry. Very thick skinned!!
04-08-2008, 11:41 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
Why do people want to kill an elk? Bear? Moose? Aren't whitetails challenging enough?
VA....I think you get where I'm headed. I'll ask it another way....
Why do a LOT of hunters pass on juvenile bucks? Why do they pass on jakes?
VA....I think you get where I'm headed. I'll ask it another way....
Why do a LOT of hunters pass on juvenile bucks? Why do they pass on jakes?
04-08-2008, 11:43 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Just wondering.....How can someone who is hunting......for their own personal reasons....with their own personal goals.....be hunting for the wrong reasons? Or....how can we say they aren't enjoying how they hunt?
Curious.
Good post, I really believe folks don't know how to actually just hunt and enjoy it! To much to prove. Times have changed, unfortunately! Like VA posted the tradition of hunting is going by the wayside! People don't hunt a certain way because it's not the cool thing to do! Always worried what the jones are shooting...... so to speak...Too much to prove to the next guy striving to be accepted!
Curious.
04-08-2008, 11:45 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Why do people want to kill an elk? Bear? Moose? Aren't whitetails challenging enough?
VA....I think you get where I'm headed. I'll ask it another way....
Why do a LOT of hunters pass on juvenile bucks? Why do they pass on jakes?
Why do people want to kill an elk? Bear? Moose? Aren't whitetails challenging enough?
VA....I think you get where I'm headed. I'll ask it another way....
Why do a LOT of hunters pass on juvenile bucks? Why do they pass on jakes?
04-08-2008, 11:46 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
I guess we can't, if their reason to hunt is having to prove themselves to the next guy then if they enjoy that, I say to them go for it.
Why have you target mature animals MM......foresaking taking juvenile bucks? It may be easier to laugh it off than answer it.
04-08-2008, 11:47 AM
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RE: Another take on the "stages" of a hunter....
I don't know, for me it's not that they are not challenging or difficult, I just have bigger deer in my area and would rather shoot one of those or a doe as I would one of them. I have shot many small bucks and many nice bucks too, depends on the type of year Im having. Jeff, you know I don't get into all the management stuff, I think big bucks will be big bucks. We have hunted 1200 acr for 30 yrs and never managed a thing and yet we killed monsters every year, so I don't really manage anything. I see where it is beneficial though, that's another thread.
