TEmbry the best said in a long time!!!!
Dave I sent you a PM I wasn't attacking you just the term .. Don't go hide everyone has something to offer on here.. Waltquote]ORIGINAL: TEmbry

I think the problem with hunting isn't about hunting big bucks....its worrying about why others hunt. Some hunt for meat, and resent others for hunting big bucks and missing what hunting is all about. Big buck hunters resent meat hunters for shooting anything that walks. Bowhunters resent rifle hunters for the stereotype of being unsafe and shooting anything that walks. Rifle hunters resent bowhunters for having a MUCH longer season. Archery hunters resent crossbow hunters for not partaking in "real" archery. Dog hunters are basically resented by everyone.....baiters are cheating....the list goes on.

It isn't just big racks....it's envy from all sides. Hunting will never be struck down from the outside, it will simply impode and slowly be chipped away. Many say bowhunting or deer season will never be taken...right now no, but they won't start with the popular seasons...They start by eliminating Dove seasons, NJ bear season, CA cougar season, etc....hunting with hounds, hunting over bait...they will exploit the quarrels and differences among us until slowly nearly all hunting could be done away with. The funny part is, depending on how a movement is worded to ban a certain aspect of hunting, it can often gain a LOT of support by, get this, hunters.

Calling others out for hunting for the wrong reasons, is well, a slippery slope. If some guy wants to hunt solo and only chooses to hunt big bucks...so what...let him be. He isn't missing what deer hunting is all about just because he doesn't partake in deer camps or comraderie of hunting....he is just missing out on what YOU deem as what hunting is all about. And vice versa.


I agree hunting is about the experience more so than the end product....but is someone who thinks otherwise wrong?

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