Originally Posted by
buffybr
So who's throwing out insults?
I also live in the USA. It is my country too, and I proudly served 3 years defending it.
From reading Pete's posts the past few years, I get the impression that he does most of his hunting within a hundred miles or so of his Colorado mountain home. That seems to be his world, fine. And if that is the world that he likes, fine also. But compared to the rest of the world, that is a pretty small area.
I would venture a guess that a vast majority of hunters do most of their hunting within a hundred miles or so of their homes. When I lived in Colorado almost all of my hunting was done within a hundred miles of my home. In the 40 years that I have lived in Montana, other than antelope hunts in the eastern part of the state, all of my Montana hunting has been within 200 miles of my home. Compared to the rest of the world, Colorado is a small area, Montana is a small area. Those are just simple facts.
And then Pete posted comments like " I don't know what half of those animals are" and "I never wanted to hunt animals I never heard of. I never wanted to hunt Africa, so why should I research it?"
So I came to the conclusion that Pete likes his world in Colorado, and basically doesn't give a hoot about Africa, and I posted "I guess some people just like to live in their own small world." So what? Many of us live in our own small worlds. Where's the insult? Where's the disrespect?
At least I've opened my "OWN small little mind" to the fact that we live in a big world that is loaded with a great variety of places and animals that are available for us to visit and hunt, and I've tried to enjoy some of that world.
Well, maybe you didn't mean it as an insult, but two of us took it that way, but i'll overlook it.
The truth is when I went on my first elk hunt at 12 I know what I was going to do the rest of my life. I loved it, and have never gotten tired of it. I also love the Colorado Rockies, and have never gotten tired of them either.
It would have been a struggle for me to hunt all over the world like you anyway. I'm a retired truck driver. I made an average living, but not enough to travel the world. I chose a way to hunt that I could do every year.
The topic is would I like to hut Africa, or Alaska? It's a simple decision for me. Nothing in Africa appeals to me. Alaska does. It's as simple as that.
You need to realize we're all different. What you like I might hate. It's what makes us all different. If a hunter from the south loves his whitetail hunting, and has no interest in hunting the west for elk. I don't give it a second thought. That's his choice. Why you don't understand why I have no interest in hunting some of the places you've hunted is beyond me.
How about this. If you said you'd pay for the whole hunt in Africa, and it would be the best spots to hunt there with the best guides. I'd say.........Thanks, but i'm not interested.