ORIGINAL: stealthycatapithicus
davidmil
There is something wrong with "hunting" when you can go to EBAY and bid on your choice of gauranteed kill game animals.
I personally thinkwe need to step back and evaluatemuzzleload hunting when your "muzzleloader" is patterned off a Winchester rifle, uses a powder pack, bullets and primers for fire, and is accurate to 250-300 yards
I personally thinkwe need to step back and think aboutbowhunting when your compounds can make you shoot 6" groups at 80-100 yard.
But if I step back ......... no one steps with me.
Human need for easier, better, quicker, faster with less trouble, worry, practice ......... THAT is what hunting has become.
Its not about lets scout for 180 days, build stands, comraderie with the friends and family, train dogs, practice with equipment, hone our skills, and then go out and match our wits against a purely wild animals for weeks of hunting that might end with no tags filled.
No, todays world wants weapons that are super easy to become accurate with. They want ATv's to avoid walking, scouting cameras to avoid having to learn to read good deer sign, fences to avoid having to chase wild deer, mechanical heads to avoid having to fine tune a bow, an EBAY auctioned off elk to avoid having to go to Colorado and chase one, they want big bucks, opening day, as close to gauranteed as you can get.
And someone REALLY thinks they can come here and argue hunting hasn't been corrupted ?
Seriously ?
Ok, I am putting my 2 cents in here! Maybe the majority of hunting has gotten the way you talk and maybe not. The way I see it money talks and thats with anything. If you have the money you can by all of the advantages to attaining the monster buck. Just as if you have the money you can buy all of the latest electronic gadgets, go on trips, and have expensive cars.
Well, what about the average Joe? My family, friends, and I are average people who make an average living. We don't have the latest equiptment, or the fastest. Yes, this year we will shoot muzzleloader as well. Only because we have saved up money and were able to purchace them. We scout quiet frequently. Not with game cams, but actually getting out there. Yes, we do have an atv, but we walk much of that land.
My son is 13 and my daughter almost 9. Both of them have a bow and shoot archery. My son saved up money and bought a lifetime hunting license. We are teaching them the values and ethics of hunting along with the need for practice. My children are also in a youth archery league at our local rod and gun. My views of the average hunter are mirrored in the parents of these children as well.
So again, I say that the obsession to kill big bucks is not corrupting hunting. I think it is the societal need to have the bigger and better thing than the next person. Look around. Society has been pushing that for years. Look at your kids and grandkids. To be "popular" many need to have the latest and greatest!
"stepping off the soap box"