ORIGINAL: buckeyebuckhntr
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Arthur....I'm just tired of Lyle Lovett look-alikes hanging around the blind, all-girls college andbragging totheir buddies about how much they're scoing.
DUH!!![&:]
Also, you may try to talk trash but you have NO IDEA how hard I have worked there over the last 5 years for it to flourish.... Your little doe thining project I have been there and done that..... Ittook me 3 years of shooting 0 bucks and numerous doeson this propertyto establish a good buck to doe ratio.
Fertilizing the Oak trees, setting mineral sites, brush hogging etc etc.... I didn't walk into this place I helped it into what it is today despite shareing this place with 3 other hunters Ifbig bucks are so easy to kill I wonder why none of them have ever shot anything but yearlings there [&:]
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No one is saying big bucks are "so easy" to kill. But as the title of the thread says, lets keep it in perspective. They are in the end, just deer, nothing more, nothing less. They have a brain on average the size of a pear. You do the math on that. How many years do you think it takes to become a fairly good hunter to gainenough"experience" to kill the elusivemature whitetail buck?I would think that a hunter who just recently (past couple of seasons) took up bowhunting and has already killed several deer and a turkey with his bow(which is a pretty quick learning curve)is just as entitled to share his opinions and observations as the next guy.
No one is saying you don't work hard but don't assume you are working harder than everyone else. Bush hogging, food plots, fertilizing land,trying to manage the herd....who doesn't do those things?Are thosenew ground breaking concepts? Of coursenot. Often it is not so much what is beingsaid but the tone or "percieved" tone of the person saying it. If you sound "holier than thou" or condescending oftenyour message is lost. Just because someones camo is not as fadedas yours doesn't mean they don't know what is going on.
I have know doubt you are passionate about hunting and know your way around the woods but so do a lot of other people young and old,newcomers and"expert"s andthose other people may not always agree with you or you with them but it (IMO) would be silly to think that "Well I have more experiencethan youso I'm right"is very convincing and that is kind ofwhat it sounds like.