The ultimate in laziness to me is ATV's. Do not get me wrong, if you are handicapped or you are setting stands that is one thing, or if it is a couple of miles to your stand I can see it, but to ride an ATV to within 100 yards of your stand or closer is in my book lazy. I am 48 years old and this year my closest stand is about 400 yards from where I will park my truck, my furthest stand is about a mile. To me the further my vehicle is away from my stand the better my odds of busting a deer. I will drive my truck into a field to retrieve a kill, but that is it.

I beleive that a lot of folks do use to many gadgets trying to make up for their lack of outdoors skills, 30 years ago with no camo, scents, calls or cover up scents we killed plenty of deer, I have stepped into a few of the new gadgets, I do use a range finder for bow hunting and do use deer calls, heck I just got my first scoped gun, but to be honest I would not have gotten the scope, but the gun already had it.

Can the industry spoil us? Yes if we let it, but I still feel that the hunter who knows his quarry and knows how to play the wind will still kill more deer than any hunter that has all the bells and whistles and does not really understand his prey.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club