ORIGINAL: davidmil

But see, there you go trying to lump everyone in the same boat. Honestly, I'm open to all sorts of new things, but hunting I've done for a long time and since before we had these big herds we have today. I started with the recurve and went on from there. When I started bowhunting I hunted for probably 4 or 5 years without ever seeing another bowhunter in the woods. Deer haven't changed... just got more plentiful. The question was about HUNTING. Sure I've picked up some things about other things, like new equipment etc etc. I've learned things, but not things to make me a better hunter unless some day I were to hunt behind a fence.[8D] I say I've been hunting for 50 years. That's the legal years. I was hunting alone when I was 8 in the Adirondack foothills. All my spending money and money for hunting came from trapping all through middle and highschool. Except they didn't call them middle schoolss then. Just what do you think I'll learn about hunting whitetails from GMMAT or you. Now never having hunted Elk or Mule deer or antelope, well sure I can and have picked up a lot of good info. But since I don't hunt them, it hasn't made me a better hunter of what I hunt. I've got 50 years of OJT for whitetails, 38 of it with a bow. I don't get surprised much anymore.