RE: Were has the sport of hunting/harvesting gone
Another thing that is happened to hunting. We have made it a contest. The who's is bigger, who's cost more. It used to be that Grandpa's, Uncles, Cousins, and Dad's would go out on Thanksgiving morning and try to kill a deer. Or maybe the man of the household would go out and simply kill for meat. Then about 20 years ago people started "trophy" hunting. Since then hunting has become a sport, and a contest. Sitting in a stand and waiting on a deer to walk by isn't a sport to me. Baseball is a sport. Hunting is a hobby or a passtime. Within the last few years hunting has become so commercialized that it is either viewed as good or bad. Those people who don't know what it is all about think it is bad. All they know is they happen to turn to OLN and see the Drury brothers stick an arrow in a monster and then high five each other. That is all they need to see to be turned away from hunting. Then there is the internet. Where you can come and post pics of your kill for all the world to see. You want to kill that monster so everyone will tell you how great you are. But it is doing nothing but making hunting a contest. I have posted pictures of my deer because I was proud of them, not because they were 130" or whatever. I just feel like as a whole, hunters have turned this hobby and passtime into a sport and a contest. To me that is what will be the end of hunting as we know it.