ORIGINAL: davidmil

I love the challenge of finding the sign, hanging a stand or most often using my climber and seeing what happens. I have no desire to get to the point of watching deer for years and almost being able to name them all. But that's me. That's hunting to me. Sitting on a groomed food plot inside a fence and deciding..OK, you'll make the book this year I'm shooting you. Planting and planting so you can have more than the normal carrying capacity so you can watch 50 unpressuredbucks a nightin a field at once is not My kind of hunting. At this point it is shooting.

ORIGINAL: iamyourhuckleberry

For me,a "hunt"isa challenge.
For me, a "Shoot" is still a challenge. But, I expend very little energy participating...........Within a "shoot", there are usually guarantees..

ORIGINAL: tsoc

Personally for me it is tied to effort,challenge and satisfaction.
For me I would rather work my a-- off and shoot nothing than have something be to easy.I guess basically I want to earn it

ORIGINAL: laxdad

I do not find the presence/abscence of a fence on a reasonable property size (1500+) acres as being the measure of hunting. More depends on the nature of the "hunt". If one is totally on their own to search, find and shoot at a legalanimal of their choice than to me it is a hunt. I have trouble with the "managed hunts", on managed lands, where indivduals are placed in shooting positions, told what they can and cannot shoot, driven to their killlocation, etc.. To me this is simply shooting and I'd rather shoot at paper because I can do that in my backyard.

laxdad

ORIGINAL: mtfreezer

Nothing is more satisfing then working hard for your game. I do go to the Black Hills every year with my brother and dad but that really isn't true hunting to me. We just drive around looking for deer on logging and firetrails. We also walk some but anything we see is just by luck. No scouting involved.

ORIGINAL: Primitive Weapon

He was able to walk up within 20yds of the buffalo and the guide was like "hmmmm.....shoot the one on the left"

Personally, this was shooting to me. Not much different, in my opinion, than walking out into a pasture and shooting a cow with a bow.

ORIGINAL: njbuck22

I could easily go out with a gun in my area in season and kill deer every day, but i like the challenge, I personally cant understand how people will put in a 1-2 acre food plot and hunt over that, but yell at people and tell them that hunting over bait is noy hunting. In either circumstance you are adding a non native food that is changing the deers natural behavior.
As for fences, i have mixed views on them. I feel if you are in an enclosure that hampers the movement of the animal to where it cant avoid you, that isnt hunting. If you in 1000s of acres that are just habitat, that is more of a challenge than hunting some of the neighborhoods that i hunt. Damn, some of the properties that i hunt the challenge is to not shoot and wait for the biggest ones.