ORIGINAL: Arthur P
When did hunting become a job?? About 15 years ago, when workaholic yuppies got boredwith flyfishing, thendiscovered bowhunting and brought their high salaries, snooty dispositionsand their corporate one-upmanshipgarbage into the sport.
Whoa! Did I say that?!? [8D]
Wow, that is what I was just thinking before I read this. I didn't think it started until about 10 years ago though.
If you let yourself get wrapped up in it you find yourself turning the hunting experience into a highschool popularity contest when you have to have the cool camo, the best bow, and the biggest buck to be with the cool kids. Now I like to tinker with my gear, but I'm not going to buy something becuase so-and-so on some board said I should. And I guess if you have to have the coolest gear and biggest bucks to be a cool kid I'm a dork, because I just want to hunt and enjoy myself as much as I can. Hopefully, I'll take a nice buck or two in the process.