after reading this thread i think i need a cig and a glass of Jonnie Walker black on the rocks

....the only thing i can ad is...

regardless of improved hunting equipment and a different code of ethics....hunting is still a very primal activity....where the only thing that really matters is Beast vs. Man regardless of who wins for the day(if you look at it in this light, its easier to see thathunting hasnt changed sinceman has walked on two feet)....

i dont pay much attention to the way others hunt or what they say about the way i hunt (not that i hunt differently than others)...im not worried about PETA or others that naysay hunters, or those that say you have to do things this way...i strongly believe that the naysayers will never beable to take away our right to hunt (or should i say hunting privledges[:'(]), as their politics are unpure, andused for their personal advancement/greed, also their followers are ignorant to the way hunters feel about the woods they hunt and the animals they kill.

....believe whats in your heart and bowhunt the way that makes you happy...regardlessof what anyone says.

nowtime to be a hipocrate spelling?

with that being said there are a few bow/gun hunters that give everyone a bad name when it comes to hunting...

i got very upset this year when the shotgun season came around and my dad and his buddy went out to our property to hunt, and the people hunting the neighboring property fired 19 shots in one afternoon...

i know they didnt kill 19 deer. there were only 4 guys hunting....

later that week i spooked up a small doe that has her back hoof blown off, shestumbled 60 yards downa Revien and laidin the middle of a creeK...

long story short i couldntget a shot off at her because sheended upcrossing the fairly deep creek and entered the neighbors propertyI didnt cross paths with her again, but my buddy did and put her out of her misery after two weeks of suffering(he said she couldnt even walk)...

my dad/his buddy fired one shot and killed a nice 10 pntr near Boone and Crockett... one for one!!!!! thats the way it should be when hunting with a gun! i understand that a miss happens....but those other guys werent hunting they were just shooting...and if you want to go shooting do it at the range not in the woods....as far as im concerned those guys shouldnt call themselves hunters....(I would have liked to "meet" them!!!!)....its things like this that non-hunters see and remember.

all i can say is i can see why things are the way they are....and thats all i can say i guess.