Talondale that you or I don't "like" a particular kind of hunting doesn't demenish the fact it IS a more difficult type of hunting.
I don't self bow hunt. I don't build them, I don't shoot them, and I don't hunt with them. I probably never will. However I can FULLY appreciate the people who do, and I recognize that they're doing it a much harder way than I am, and the respect given to them is more deserved.
Exactly; the most physically demanding thing I have ever done in my life. You lug a 70# pack back in 5 miles at 11,800 ft and you are from flat land midwest you know you have done something.
hardcorehunterwhy did your outfitter not carry that pack on the horses ?
burniegoeasily
I love the logic on archery forums. "I do it this way, its harder, so im a better hunter than you".
who said that ? I don't think anyone did, I don't know where you got that from.
Your brother chose a very difficult way to hunt, and you can't even recognize that ?
You tell me that a guy doing it himself in a wilderness are with self bows for elk and killing a big 6x6 isn't a more accomplished hunter who deserves more credit, more kudo's and more admiration than the guy buying a canned EBAY hunt for $5,000 and killing it within minutes of showing up on the farm ?
Ya'll know that isn't true, and while its an extreme example, what it does show is that there are many, many different accomplishments in hunting and its a far swinging pendulum from canned hunts on one end to self bowyers on the other end.
If you think its all the same challenge, then grab a recurve and hunt your next full season with it and with it only and come back here and tell me it was the same challenge. You'll quickly find that it isn't the same at all