davidmil
Oh Bull Hockey. Hunting is about killing something. The journey is a part of it but the ultimate goal is to shoot something. You can have the greatest journey in the world, but if you never shoot anything you've flat failed at what you set out to do.
What is your goal ? To kill something ? If it is, go to a farm and shoot a penned deer and you've accomplished your goal, haven't you ?
I'm betting you aren't into canned hunting though. Why ? Because its NOT the kill that makes the hunt.
Its the journey.
You compound hunt because of the added challenge to the hunt. You stack the odds more against you by shooting a shorter range and less accurate weapon than, say, a rifle deer hunt.
Why ?
Because its MORE than the kill.
The journey just makes you the old Indian word for vegetarian. Don't tell me it's all about the journey. That's only a part of it. Let's not loose sight of why we hunt and it's ultimate goal. I love a walk in the woods as much or more than the next person, but at least I'm honest as to why I'm there.
Then you don't get it and the view you have is ultimately killing our sport.
You are wrong, in that the best days in the woods very easily can end without a loosed arrow. Some of my best hunting days ended in no animals killed.
Can you explain that ? I can - hunting is so much more than the kill. Traditional hunters seem to understand this more.
Arthur, I generally agree with you but can't agree that using traditional equipment is what bowhunting was meant to be.
Actually he IS right. Archery was forever about traditional bows, until the legalization of compounds.
Should P&Y have a trad only category? They don't need to - the P&Y WAS a trad category, until compounds were legalized and accepted. P&Y from the beginning was trad archery, if anything compounds need their own category.
Me ? I could care less about the "book" or if compounds/crossbows either, both or neither are in archery season.
But don't look past that archery season was always about trad archery, the others that were allowed in were just that , ALLOWED in.
But, it wasn't a successful hunt, it was a nice walk in the woods.[8D][8D][8D] I enjoy walks a lot, but don't tell me it was a successful hunt. It wasa fun walk.
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Again, you don't get it.
I sense you're the kind of guy who gets upset if he's not seeing animals to shoot. You're not happy with a hunt that ends with an unfilled tag.
Oh, I understand the ultimate goal is filling the tag - but its a very, very small part of the picture that is hunting. Larger parts of the picture is practice, comraderie, scouting, time in the stand watching the world that God created ....... so much more than the few seconds and the actual shot and kill.