Originally Posted by
30-06 deerslayer
I think Oldtimr is trying to tell him it would be better to take the effort of trying to find someone who already knows the ropes. Yes anyone can try to learn how to hunt on their own and eventually will but, with a lot of mistakes to go along with it. the problem with no one there to help him he will keep making the same mistakes over and over and get frustrated because he can't change the situation.
that is not learning, doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
sometimes as in my case, there is no one available as a mentor, when I was a kid it just wasn't possible, the only folks around at that time were my mom, grandma, a brother 1 yr. older, and the only member of the family who hunted my uncle who was slowly succumbing to cancer, dad was in viet naam in the service, so I had no one. I made mistakes, but they were well learned lessons that I still remember 45 years later.
Today there is more information available on the net than anywhere else, folks on here know more than most any mentor anyone had in history, the hard part of processing info from the net is how you filter it. Its todays way of learning, in the 80's everyone subscribed to they're favorite magazines, digested every word from they're favorite scribes, yet there are everyday hunters, who work for a living who can run circles around most scribes in the fields of hunting, its how you use the info they are willing to divulge, and how much attention you pay to those who just want to increase they're post count. welcome to the new outdoor life magazine.
RR