ORIGINAL: Germ
ORIGINAL: huntingson
I must not hunt, because I have really enjoyed seeing what is out there. It is just plain fun to hit those occassional pictures of big bruisers who are roaming through. Have the cameras changed the way I go about hunting? No. But they have made it more fun when I am going through a stretch of seeing nothing from the stand because I KNOW that there are a few good ones out there. Helps keep my motivation up I guess.
Stop being so dramtic
To be honest there is a part of me, where using one just does not feel right. I cannot explain it, and soley my isssue.
1. I know it will make me better hunter, but...
2.It's my own mental instabilty that keeps me from using one. When I pull the bow back, I want to know I beat him on his terms. For some reason a game camera muddies that for me. Let me point out this is my own personel issue, to each his own. For some reason a camera crosses the line for me, and I don't know why. I have every gadget know to man[:@]
I was purposefully being melodramatic b/c the idea that it isn't hunting if you have a camera somewhere seems a bit overboard to me.
How does a camera make you a better hunter? I must not be using them to their full potential because all they have done for me is give me some idea of how many and how big. I was able to identify some resident bucks to go after, but they just wouldn't fall into any kind of predictable pattern. I shot the buck I was after over 500 yards from the nearest camera at a greatseeking phase stand that we have used for well over a decade and I hadn't gotten him on camera for weeks prior to killing him. In fact, I thought he was dead.
This winter has been great b/c I am getting a good idea of what next year might be like seeing what survived the season.
I guess I can see where you are coming from, but not how you got there
