atlasman:

I was simply giving you a taste of your own medicine. Tastes bitter, does it not? But you kept prodding for me to not beat around the bush; so here it is.

As for gun hunting vs. bow hunting, there is a fork in the road where the methods of hunting part way and certain required knowledge and methods begin to differ. You pick up a bow for the first time, you shoot a deer for the first time, and overnight you become a pompous authority. When did you pick up the bow, how many times have you bow-hunted, and, yes, because it is relevant, how many arrow-shot deer have you tracked?

When you describe something you do or did, your posts are commonly filled with terms that are self-aggrandizing and extremely pretentious, and your sentences are filled with ennobling adjectives. Your believed knowledge of archery and bowhunting and your chastisement of others are too advanced in accordance with your time behind the string and 1 bow kill.

Although premature, if you were to just flaunt your experience and qualifications in a manner that focuses on you only, those aware of the obvious would most likely just lift an eyebrow and say nothing. However, when you nastily rip into someone that has done nothing extraordinarily wrong, and then go as far as to insinuate the person is a " cry baby," you have stepped over the line and you deserve being taken down a notch or two.

The bottom line is; you are green to many aspects of archery and bowhunting, and you have a way to go before you are qualified to chastise and lecture someone as you did and as you sometimes do. Act accordingly and you will not have your " greenness" thrown in your face.

Now, using your words: