ORIGINAL: buckeye
I keep reading "I wish I had the Internet when I started hunting"....
Am I the only one who is glad that I didn't?
No one in my family or anyfriends hunted (my brother started when I did). I wanted a bow as a kid from watching the Dukes of Hazzard shoot them on TV. I got a bow and then got interested in bowhunting from there.
What I am getting at is, I learned what I did by myself on trial and error. Lot's oferror's. I am however proud of every mistake that I made and learned from.It made me "better" each and every time that I madea mistakeand learned from it.
I wouldn't change it. Not achance.
I am with ya. I didn't have the internet. I didn't have books. Just went out and learned it on my own. Didn't come on here everyday begging to be spoon fed. I made all the mistakes one can make. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I hunted in an area where you could only take one buck a year. Hunting was tough, but it made a hunter out of you. Land was vast, deer hard to pattern. Mountains steeper than I liked. Not like the enviroment we have in most places today where urban sprawe has created a severe over population problem and deer have no where to run but up hedgerows.
We live in an instant gratification world. Nobody wants to learn anything the hard way. I am not saying I blame them. But have learned my old Grandfather was right when he told me, "nothing worth a hoot is easy".