ORIGINAL: Schultzy
ORIGINAL: WKP Todd
Not to argue - cause I don't see the point, but someone mentioned to me that "it's not about the kill, some people just love to hunt".
That is the exact reason I do hunt. I can back this up with eating my last three Illinois Non-resident tags ($1,200+ worth) - because I would rather eat my tag that kill an immature buck (cause it is as far from "the kill" to me as anything). Ihave most of the bucks that I passed on camera to enjoy themas much as I want by watching the encounters as often as I wish. I get more enjoyment from this than I would killing them. So - in other words - I agree with you.
Why do men climb Everest when they can more easily climb a100 ft.hill in their backyard? Why do some men insist on shooting traditional archery when we have the greatest bow technology in the history of the world? Everyone has a different goal. To me, it's killing big bucks with a bow. To others it's any deer.Theharder the goal, thegreater the reward. Thisistrue of anything really.
Regardless, ask any hunter who has killed "deer" with a bow, and deer with a gun - what was more exciting? I would bet you every cent in my bank account that "bow" will come-out on-top. Anyone want to take me up?
This is my last post on this topic because I've said how I feel and won't get into ayou know what contest over such a non-important topic.
I really don't see any reason why any one here has a point to arguing with Todd on what he says here. Its his opinion and its the way he looks at it, big freaking deal!! Some of you act as its either your way or the highway or the way of the "popular" norm. I respect Todd for what he said here, heck I agree with allot of what he said. Does that make me right or wrong? Nope, just an opinion like the rest of yours all are. All he did was answer the thread honestly in the way he looks at it, not in the way "everyone" else looks at it.
Shultzy, I'm not arguing with Todd's opinion, his first paragraph is his opinion and that's fine with me. I may not agree with it but I'm also not arguing with him about it.
Now the paragraphs I made bold are not opinions but more on the lines of conjecture and speculation all given to bolster his argument that "The harder the goal, the greater the reward" He's not saying that's his OPINION he's giving a specific example to confirm that as a truth.
His last paragraph I made bold is pure bunk and again more speculation. He knows full well that if you ask most bow hunters (after all you are obviously a bow hunter if you killed a deer with a bow
) what is more challenging what they are going to answer.
Again, I believe bow hunters (as a whole) are by far the biggest egotistical and elitist hunters I know, and it's statements like his that only add fuel to that fire.
He could have easily said something along the lines of "
I think bow hunting is the most challenging and
I think the harder the goal the greater the reward, and
I think that's bow hunting" but he didn't and that's what I took offense to. Like it or not it's our responsibility to take hunting into the future and to sustain it for our children, at some point we will pass that torch to them. Making elitist statements like that will not help our cause only hurt it.
Maybe sometimes folks need to look at hunting from a greater perspective and not through the sight on their bow.
Undoubtedly that last statement will fly right over the heads of most like a F-117A Nighthawk.