ORIGINAL: bawanajim
ORIGINAL: ManySpurs
MPH PA., For me the kill has always been very very important.
I spend all year in the woods, Feb thru April enjoying shed hunting every bit as much as hunting, From May thru Sept, I enjoy using my trail cams as much as hunting, from mid July thru Sept I enjoy sitting in my stands hunting deer with my bino's and video camera just as much as deer hunting, but from about the 3rd week in Sept thru the end of Jan. its all about the kill. I can enjoy everything else about hunting, nature ect. the other 9 months of the year. But the one thing I do not under stand is that I read on this site and others all the time about the kill isnt that important, but I rarely see any one else sitting in stands, glassing deer, shed hunting, and just taking walks thu the deer woods the other 9 months of the year. If they truely did enjoy all the other aspects of deer hunting as much or even more than the kill then you would think the same guys I see everywhere in the deer woods during the deer seasons, I would also run into in the woods the other 9 months of the year. Pike
Pike just about summed it up for me. I tried 3 times yesterday to post to this topic, and hit the wall each time when the board wouldn't take my post. I gave up.
But anyway, I buy a tag to fill it. I don't buy a tag to take a walk in the woods. I don't buy a tag to go to deer camp. I don't buy a tag to make memories or pictures. I buy a tag to kill.
I spend a year from the close of one season to the opening of the next getting ready to fill my tag. It's not a 3 day adventure to the mountains. It's not about sharing a campfire with Uncle Jeb. It's not about putting pictures on the wall. The only memories that I retain are the memories that are etched in my mind between the animal that I harvest and me. It's all about a way of life thatculminates into a filled tag. An unfilled tag represents failure to me. And that ain't good.
I know and understand where the original poster is coming from. That's a cool thingwith me. I've been there to.
Thank God I was brought up so much more differently. Don't get me wrong I love to fill my tags and usually do, but hunting is so much more to me.
I've never given a second thought about giving up my hunting time to help another.The look in a kids eyes as you show him how to gut a deer is priceless Or to help a fellow hunter drag a deer to their truck in deep snow is a pleasure to me.
The discipline to pass on a buck thats heading to a youngster is something I take pride in. With the me, me, mentality of today I can see why many of you find hunting today so disappointing.
You do realize, you can still have all of that, even if you never bought another hunting license.
Why not quit hunting and take up bird watching?
WHY? Because it really is about the kill isn't it.
I hate to sound so cold, but that's the truth or you would have given up long ago. You can still enjoy the camp atmosphere without buying a license. Just go along and be Camp Cook.
Take the bino's out and just watch deer on the first day. Guide a youth hunter. Don't pay for a license if you just enjoy everything that surrounds hunting and not the kill.
So many of you keep harping its not about the kill that makes a good hunt. If that were true, why buy a license. You can do all the things you like for free.
If you feel that by buying a license it is your good deed to support the PGC, then buy it and leave the bow or gun at home.
Better yet, sell your weapons and donate the moneyto the PGC.
You can still enjoy all that you like about hunting and never fire a shot, ever.