Guys - it's a real shame when a lot of really great topics in here degrade into personal attacks and insults and have to be moved and/or locked. We're all hunters and we're all on the same team. I can't for the life of me figure out why we spend so much time fighting amongst ourselves for such stupid reasons

Well said Justin, HERE HERE! The majority of the name callers and those who like to highjack threads and turn them into something personal are usually just miserable in their daily lives to begin with. They don't have the means to travel too some of the prime "exotic" big game regions of the world, nor do they have the money (or they simply listen too their wives tell them NO) for first class equipment so they have to make their own miserable little lives seem valid by running down those who, by the grace of God, DO have such ways and means

you'll alway's find one in the crowd.

I find hunters in general to be narrow minded when it comes to hunting norms and mores. In other words if the method being discussed isn't the method that they were brought up with, an arguement usually follows.

I believe a lot of the time the elitist attitude comes from those people who have and can afford the best gear, the best pieces of property, and can go on those world class hunts. Now I'm certainly not stereotyping any particular individual or groups of individuals because the bickering comes from all types of hunters.