Can we say what "hunting" is to someone else" Can we define "hunting" FOR someone else?
If a man thinks what he's doing .....sitting over a baited site is "hunting"......can anyone say otherwise (and have ANY credibility)?
The same man is in a tree with his bow .......inside a fenced enclosure. He says he's "hunting". Can anyone define what he's doing as something other than that (barring personal opinion)?
I find it extremely condescending for someone to think they can determine what another hunter is receiving from HIS experience. Isn't everyone else's personal definition moot?
Disclaimer: Everything in the aforementioned is being done legally.
Are you peeing when you pee? Are you eating when you eat?
Hunting, hello, is defined as searching for something. I can be hunting car keys in my living room. How you hunt is your own business. Define how you kill deer and that is a different definition altogether.
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I agree that hunting is different for each person doing it. I have realized on this board that personal opinion is put out there pretty often as gospel. I believe the same can be said for those who look down on people because they took a young deer (fawn, button head or what not), or for taking a 1 1/2 or 2 1/2 year old deer. I have been bow hunting now for 26 years and what hunting is for me changes all the time, sometimes day-to-day. There are times when I want the challenge of taking nothing but a mature buck, other time I just want to shoot a deer. However, back you your question, IMO a person cannot pass judgement on another persons hunting style and still have credibility in my eyes.
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IMO it is NOT up to the individual to define hunting. Mr Webster and the game laws do that. Otherwise I could go out tonight, sit at the edge of a cornfield, camo"™d up, bow, arrow nocked, whole 9 yards. If a Game Warden came up to me, I"™d just say that I WASN"™T hunting.
If you can say you are hunting when in fact you are sitting here typing, then you should be able to say you are waiting for a bus while you are sitting in your treestand.
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There's nothing illegal about sitting in your treestand at night.
We got into this conversation a couple years ago when someone tried to say I was breaking the law by going ot my stand at 4:00AM.
I talked to the GW here and told him about the conversation we were having, here. I asked....."Am I doing anything against the law by going to my stand at 4:00AM"? Chris (GW) asks...."It's dark at 4:00AM, right"? "yup". "Then how in the hell could you be hunting"?
At 4:00AM I'm waiting to hunt.
You're bringing (IMO) the variable of illegal activity into the equation where it doesn't belong. I stated in the original post that everything being done was being done,legally.
Can "Hunting" be defined?
