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Some truth?



A lot of truth imo





One big reason I quit hunting whitetail

still low class hunter here...
Hunting is a means of providing for ing & chilling...

The former are found but far and few in between.

I'm right there with you.

Yeah, I think that is spot on. Been wondering when exactly we started hunting to impress others instead of satisfying ourselves. Age and score is talked about to much I think. If it makes you happy, then take him. If your neighbor is mad because he isn't 5 1/2 or at least 150, tell him where to stick it. I miss the way it was. And for those who don't mind going 4 or 5 years without pulling the trigger because the right one hasn't showed up, I hope I never get there. I love hunting and eating deer and would rather take a 110" to 120" buck each year than to have to wait every 5 years to take "one". JMO of course. I may never kill a 150", but it doesn't mean I'm having less fun. "Fun"! Isn't that what its supposed to be about?

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I think a lot of men have lost, or have never been taught, how to show interest and support in a friend's life. Instead, to make conversation, they try to show how much they know. Kind of a lack of maturity and class.

Yep, if you don't hunt the way I hunt and think hunting should be done, you are doing it wrong. Everything was better in the past.

There's no truth at all to the second one.












Nobody 'talks' to anybody anymore.

I still hunt for ME and family, the heck with others. Whether it's a doe or buck (not Bambi or yearling).

Meh... we also don't let our babies play with lead paint either

One of the saddest things I have ever seen is a buddy shoot a deer he was tickled and excited about to no end, "score" it, and immediately become disappointed because the number wasn't as high as he thought it would be.

Something is very wrong with that picture.

Sounds good but if your really serious and love hunting and it's supposed to be fun.......Why does it have to be a "buck" every time? ....or even a buck at all?

(Just playin' devil's advocate with you)

Just try not to be the camp "expert". There's been one in every deer camp I've been in in the last 15 years. Doesn't matter whether it's a kid's first buck or an 85 year old's last buck. He runs out to the truck, with his tape measure and ring of plastic deer jaws ( ) and he's not there to congratulate. Oh no, he's gonna try desperately to be able to proudly utter that self-validating phrase "I wouldna shot dat deer." It somehow gives his life meaning. And if he can't reasonably make this pronouncement? He sulks.

Just try to have fun dammit.

Sad but many times, True.
Adios,
Gary

The problem could be quickly and easily dispatched by creating a single season that allows hunters to use their tool of choice. There is no debate that the division started when wildlife agencies followed the guidance of equipment manufacturers looking to create and expand their sales markets by creating seasons based on techniques. Our ancestors would call the current state of the values we have as nothing short of disgusting.

Oh good grief. So bow season and muzzle loader season caused the issues we have today with people wanting trophies and discussions that follow...okay

Our ancestors hunted for meat and necessity of the animal including the bones, hide, and had a use for every part. Plus, they didn't have the internet to share or argue about their beliefs and conquest.

Lordy, you attempt to shoehorn that misguided grievance into every discussion.

You're like a drunk in denial. The uproar within the bow hunting community at the first mention of allowing crossbows is undeniable evidence of the division I noted earlier.

But that's okay. Like the drunk, everyone else knows better.

Another in denial.

The state of deer hunting is based on a bell curve and the example above is clearly emblematic of the right side of the curve and I'm fine with that. the right distribution of the curve use to be simply defined as "buck" leading the middle part of the distribution to be "brown and its down". Theres a reason deer hunting is as good as its ever been, but like most things in life, all good things tend to have a downside which in this case is the crowd that gets too hung up on score. In a perfect world, score would be replaced by age and points would be replace by weight. That said, we certainly seem to be heading in the right direction!