RE: What Stage Hunter Are You?
1. The Shooter Stage: This is when the hunter begins. They need to have some success and be able to have a level of accomplishment.Done it.
2. The Limiting Out Stage: From stage one most hunters progress to this stage. In stage two the hunter's goal is to harvest as many animals as is legally possible.Done it.
3. The Trophy Stage: In this stage the hunter has enough knowledge of his quarry that he begins to exhibit selectivity in his hunt. Bigger antlers and a keen knowledge of stewarding the whitetail resource begin to take center stage in the deer hunter's life at this point.Done it.
4. The Method Stage: By the time a hunter reaches Stage 4 he is beginning to mellow out. With many autumns under his belt he begins to become more interested in how he hunts. Understanding deer behavior also becomes paramount during this stage.Done it and still doing it.
5. The Sportsman Stage: By the time a hunter hits this stage he truly knows who he is. He knows deer behavior, has killed many deer, has probably become involved in the preservation of hunting and makes a conscious effort to see that hunting is passed on to the next generation. This is also the stage when many deer hunters become involved as managers of their own deer hunting properties. I've often viewed this stage as the reflective stage.Done it and still doing it.
I practice stages 4 and 5 all the time. Anyone can reach stages 2-5 if they really want to. It all really depends on how serious you want to be about your deer hunting. Its all up to the individual being there is no wrong stage of deer hunting as long as your happy with what you do and shoot.