If it's important to you, then hunt that way!

Why should everyone do things your way?

dang. People keep pointing out flaws in my picture. Guess I have some editing to do.

Funny you say that! Arent some of these people the ones that pay $6-10k to hunt Youkon Moose? What about Stone and Dall sheep in the $20-40k range? With that said, is it hunting when one hires a guide to kill one of these animals? The guide does all the scouting and the hunter follows along to pull the trigger. One of the easiest hunts I've been on was Barron Ground Caribou in Canada. There aren't any fences there. As a matter of fact, there's nothing there but water and tundra.

If this is in the Hill country, you might want to add more tracks outside the fence than in

Two thoughts:

1)It's not just "my way"- its hunting vs. shooting/killing. And people who control our fate are watching.

2)Alot of the guys you even apparently agree are just shooters come on a public forum like this, send out pic after pic, and just generally put it in everyone's face. (Which is not surprising as showing off the big rack is kinda their point in the first place).

But ask if its HF or LF and watch the howling! So now apparently you can't even get the story since the big rack is the only point. Used to be the story was the point.

It's just sad.....

Two thoughts:

1)It's not just "my way"- its hunting vs. shooting/killing. And people who control our fate are watching.

2)Alot of the guys you even apparently agree are just shooters come on a public forum like this, send out pic after pic, and just generally put it in everyone's face. (Which is not surprising as showing off the big rack is kinda their point in the first place).

But ask if its HF or LF and watch the howling! So now apparently you can't even get the story since the big rack is the only point. Used to be the story was the point.

It's just sad.....

Don't even get me started on that chit, it makes me sick too. I've killed all the stuff you mentioned and worked my [censored] off for every one of them.

So I don't feel like reading all 15 pages, can somebody give me the condensed version of what's been said so far?

So I don't feel like reading all 15 pages, can somebody give me the condensed version of what's been said so far?

Why do you have to cuss so much? There are kids on this forum. Why does it make you sick? They killed the animals legally. Are you mad that they didn't have to work as hard as you? Do you think the hunters didn't enjoy their hunt? Should they not be proud of their animals because they didn't do all the work?

I suggest you make your own bows, arrow, arrow heads put on a loin cloth and hunt off the ground like the "true" hunters did

Like this?


79" New Mexico Antelope that I shot while driving around on a ranch. Walked 100 yards and made the shot after he deposited his seed in a doe. Took some pics and gutted the animal. Headed home.

Or like this one


Showed up to a ranch in south Texas that is partially fenced( B&C eligible )

Sighted in rifle and went to blind that afternoon. Buck showed up and I shot it. Took pics. Ranch hands cleaned deer. Went home

Or this one(friends buck)

Buck was hitting the feeder like clock work for months. Low fenced ranch

Buck was killed on second day of season. Followed his routine just like the months prior

What happened to the original poster?

Because the things that are going on up there is the same thing that I said in my opening posts on this thread. Trophy hunting driven by those with lots of money are ruining the hunting heritage for everyone that isn't in their financial bracket, and hence destroying the opportunity to enjoy hunting for the average joe. Its happening all over the country and it has been going on for a while. All anyone cares about is the trophy, no matter the price, and those that provide it only care about the money. If it will fit in their trophy room and they can brag about it.....mission accomplished. Opportunities are constantly diminishing and access to land everywhere cost more money than most men have. When wealthy men set the bar so high that most cant touch it, they have two choices....quit hunting.....or spend more money than one can afford. Its really pretty sad. I tell my son all the time, man you wouldn't believe how good the hunting was here, or there at one time, but now you cant even hunt there or if you want to you have to have a lot of money. Its a past time that I see as unsustainable for many the way things are going. But if you've got lots of money opportunities are endless!

Imagine living within 50 miles of 12 Air Taxis and 10 months of the year they will fly you anywhere you want to for their going rate but when hunting season opens they wont give you a ride anywhere no matter how much you pay them because guides (many from outside of Alaska) have written these guys big fat checks to lock up the Air charters so they wont take any Alaskan residents into the areas these guides intend to use, and this is on public land!

Bingo