I sold insurance so I've been in thousands of houses.
Ok my point is 20-30 years ago it was a good bet that if I guy had some nice trophy's on the wall, he knew his way around the woods. Now all some has to know to put trophy's on the wall is the way to the nearest ATM or e-bay site.
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I would agree that in most cases Charlies second post is True. At least I'd agree on the premise that IF that was your only clue, it would only leave you guessing....
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You were able to tell a guy was a good hunter when you walked in his house and saw some really nice trophy's. Now you can't.
Charlie, I know a guy who has lots of trophys on his wall. He shot most of them in a 75 acre fenced in plot. He has a lot of money and not a lot of time to hunt.
Is that a good hunter? He thinks he is.
I'd rather not do it that way myself.
My trophy room has two whitetails, one mule deer, one pronghorn, one Kudu, one Gemsbok, one duiker, and one Springbok.
I don't consider myself a good hunter.....I consider myself a shooter. They were all taken from 50 yards to over 400 yards with guns from a .25-20 winchester to a .375 H&H and all in fair chase.....not penned in areas. Only the whitetails were not taken on a guided and outfitted hunting trip. I assure you these eight trophies on my wall have nothing to do with my hunting abilities, rather the number of times I've been hunting!!!!!
Trophies on the wall tell zero about a persons hunting abilities!
I have nothing against high dollar hunting, but it is a fact that todayyou can put B&C quality bucks on the wall and know little to nothing about real huntingIf you've got the cash you can go where the deer have been managed to the extent that their culls are twice as good as your best home area deer! You can go where the deer have been scouted for you and the stands have been placed for you too!
As I said, I am OK with that, some people don't have the time or the health to do the "work" involved in hunting, some just don't desire to do the work!The deer on those walls are admirable animals, I would not really consider them true trophies though!
To me I like to do it all, find the land to hunt, do the scouting and stand building and placement, to the hunting and meat proccessing too!
As most of you here know, the real trophies are taken with the hard work of scouting and stand placment, done when the heat is scorching and the chiggers are hungry!Again, I'll admire any whitetail, I'll respect your 6 point, taken over hard work, more than the monster that was taken with dollars!
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I don't consider myself to be a bad hunter nor do I consider myself a good hunter. In 24 years of hunting, I have taken one deer to the taxi - from this past ML season. He will be hanging on the wall by the time the 04 seaons rolls around, and it's not exactly what you'd consider a "big" deer. Sure, I've shot plenty of deer over the years, but not all wall hangers. Does that make me a bad hunter, or just honest?
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