ORIGINAL: GMMAT
So you'll pay $2K+ to travel to another state ......to hunt animals that dwell in your own back yard......
......but you wouldn't consider a hunt to another continent to hunt animals you'll never SEE in your home country (probably)?
What the mindset?
I can see me doing it, one day. Hunting the same animal with the same weapon will bore the hell out of me, eventually.
For me.. someone who would rather hunt whitetail bucks in North America rather than chase other animals abroad.. it's about the dedication.
Not that the guy going to Africa doesn't have dedication.
But.. I am dedicated to improving my hunt of the whitetail buck and only the whitetail buck. To seek out and hunt the 3 yr olds.. then the 4 yr olds.. and followed by 5 yr olds and better. Quiks recent thread shows just how hard it truly is.. (sorta).
To improve to a point I am chasing only 150" animals.. then one day (hopefully) only 160" animals.. and to catch a glimpse of a 200" in the wild is truly something so few have witnessed and even fewer ever take with bow.
And all this will take my lifetime to complete. And even then it is NO given or guarantee that I have completed it at all.
I don't wish to be a "jack of all trades".. I would like to pursue master of one.
Gaining knowledge of this amazing animal.
And what better animal than the whitetail. Perhaps the most stunningly beautiful and adaptable creature on the face of the earth.
And the male of the species has a chorus of inches that are unlike any one of its kind. Each one individual as the animal who wears it.
So for me.. the choice is easy. To pursue older whitetail males on DIY hunts across the North American continent. To learn it all on his turf.
I'm so gay.[&:]