What's wrong with just shooting?
07-02-2008, 09:07 PM
#21
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: What's wrong with just shooting?
But I think the statement about having the weight of the world on my shoulders supports the reason behind.......Going out and having fun.
Good night
07-02-2008, 10:54 PM
#22
Site Bouncer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois
Posts: 4,099
RE: What's wrong with just shooting?
As most of you know, it's all about having fun for me....And it always will be. I'm a spur of the moment hunter in that if I see something I like I'll try to kill it. It doesn't need to be old or a P&Y. Yeah, I have my standards and I've let a lot of nice deer walk over the years, sometimes because of aslammer I've seen and others because it just wasn't quite what I wanted. The nicest deer I have ever seen was a perfect basket 10-point that probably wouldn't quite make 125in (P&Y) but the rack was just about as perfect as I've ever seen and I would have loved for that deer to have given me a shot at him.
I hunt for me...I hunt for fun and I will never stop doing that.
I hunt for me...I hunt for fun and I will never stop doing that.
07-03-2008, 02:09 AM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
Posts: 4,271
RE: What's wrong with just shooting?
I have no problem with anyone shooting what they want. What I do have a problem with are the folks that complain about there being "no big bucks around" or the folks that say "if I don't shoot 'em then someone else will". These excuses simply do NOT hold water in my book. Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. It is ALL of OUR responsibility to do our part to take control of the badly skewed and out-of-whack deer herds that years and years and poor management have led us to. Good luck and good huntin'
07-03-2008, 04:38 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2005
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Posts: 2,241
RE: What's wrong with just shooting?
Mobow, I think we all are really deep down in the same boat, you said it best when you said when the right one steps out in front of you you will know. That is how it is with all of us you just know. I had a thread a while ago about guys throwing around numbers too much and I think you just summed it up perfectly for me. By throwing around numbers too much you start to make so other hunters uncomfortable with there decisions, just because the buck that makes me go that's him might not do it for others. So in a nut shell "SHOOT WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY"end of story every deer buck or doe is a trophy it just depends where you are at in your hunting carreer at the time.. Walt
07-04-2008, 06:52 AM
#28
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
RE: What's wrong with just shooting?
ORIGINAL: mobow
My only point to this, speaking from experience, is that we can put an awful lot of pressure on ourselves, and EACH OTHER.
My only point to this, speaking from experience, is that we can put an awful lot of pressure on ourselves, and EACH OTHER.
As an obstinent man it has the reverse effect on me, but it obviously still effects me for the bad.
I'm a gin it.
07-04-2008, 11:38 AM
#30
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 753
RE: What's wrong with just shooting?
Given the severity of the poaching situation whereI hunt and the number of tags we have in Virginia (6, including two antlered tags) and the problem with the deer population here, I'll shoot whatever I can, except for 1st year animals. I'd like a trophy, but I also like meat.