ORIGINAL: indianahunter83
For me fair chase is basically no high fences. I have no problem with scents or food plots but corn feeders and salt blocks are just kind of un-natural.
This is the kind of stuff I am referring to........thank you for being honest. This comment could be an entire thread of it's own........it's VERY interesting. Your opinion is not shaped by law (not saying you approve of illegal stuff).......because baiting and fences are legal. Also you state a reason for your thoughts is that the above mentioned baiting seems "un-natural"...........yet you don't object to food plots. This is what I suspected.......that this opinion is not "cut and dry" for most people and is extremely subjective with tons of variables driving their opinion.......some of which may just be a gut feeling.
The 100 yard range is just because I like being close enough to the deer to count the number of eyelashes it has! Don't get me wrong... I've shot deer with my .270 at up to 200 yards (because they are tasty no matter how they perish!) but it just didn't seem as exciting as being up close and personal.
Very cool............and very well said.........also interesting how someone else could pick up on this statement right now and say 100 is "shooting" because they view that distance the same way you view 200 yards. Neither of which could ever be labeled right or wrong.
My father isn't much of a hunter (mostly squirrels he doesn't understand the joy I get from freezing temperatures stuck up in a tree) so I pretty much was drawn to hunting on my own and formed my own ideas. I also never understood deer drives (once again illegal in indiana I believe which probably caused my opinion)
WOW........this is EXACTLY the kind of response I was looking for.........so much goes into what we consider "hunting" and that phrase can mean a 1,000 different things to a 1,000 different guys. Your dad didn't care for hunting so much........mine did and still does. He is a great hunter........but he is hardcore old school.......I share many of his opinions and some I don't......that influence of how we are raised or come into the sport has a lot to do with how we view what is different IMO. Guys out west laugh at the thought of a treestand..........out east they laugh at open prarie long distance rifle shots. I don't think either is right or wrong. Deer drives are a GREAT example...........but I told my wife 15 minutes ago I was going to get us some coffee [
] Gotta run out for a few...........good post though man.