ORIGINAL: Rack-attack
It will be a very sad day for me when a deer of any kind comes into my view from my treestand and I don't get excited. I feel very sorry for guys that can only get worked up by a huge buck........that isn't hunting, it's thrill seeking......may as well jump out of a plane or bungie jump instead
You just flat out stated that I am not a hunter – I am a thrill seeker.
I shouldn't have said it isn't hunting........it's thrill seeking hunting.......where only the highest of highs will do and the neverending chase for bigger and better rages on.
If the only thing that gets you excited even a little bit is a huge buck......then Yea, that's what I did.
You seem to be convinced that you hunt the toughest, hardest land in the country
Your words not mine..........but yes, considering hunting pressure and deer to hunter ratio I would say it is definately not easy that's for sure. If it was I would have seen more then 12 deer and 3 of 5 friends would not be eating tags this winter when they were willing to take any deer they legally could.
and all “us” trophy hunters have popes hiding behind every tree.
I don't care what anyone else has....I care what I have. I do take exception however to someone telling me my situation is not what I say it is simply because they think they are Fred Bear reincarnated and can make huge deer appear just by walking into the trees.
You seem incapable of thinking outside your box. Because you do not possess, either the talent, dedication, knowledge, or as you say the deer herd to ever become a trophy hunter you seem to love to bash those that do.
Surprised it took you so long. This paragraph is so predictable when talking with someone who thinks they are the great white hunter and everyone else is just too stupid, unskilled and lazy to be as great as you are. I know you think you do all these things that no one else does and work harder then everyone else and can shoot better then all of us retards because if we say we don't share your all or nothing model of success......We really do.....but we just aren't good enough to do it so we say we don't really care.......BUT WE DO!!!
What a joke.
And talk about hypocritical…….You finally shot a trophy buck and you miss no opportunity to talk about how great a deer it was on any post you can. You have stated many times how great a feeling and experience it has been. You have bathed and continue to bath in the “THRILL” of shooting a trophy.
It was a thrill.........great experience. Check my posts from last year Rack. I gushed just as much and was equally giddy with kills of a 6, 4 and a doe. I get a thrill from every hunt I go on........especially a successful one. Sorry that you can only get excited about a record book deer but they all make me proud. Hypocritical would be me saying that after all my posts about how trophies should not make or break a hunt.........I was wrong, because now that I got one it's different!!!! I have seen the light and all hunters who don't go after wall hangers as a life's work are missing the boat!!!
Well, next year I will do the same as I always do. Take the chances I get to harvest any legal deer I have a permit for. If it has a huge rack I will be happy......if it doesn't I will be happy too. You wouldn't understand.
You have also resolved to the idea that this was a once in a lifetime chance for you and because of this, it probably will.
Geez and all these years I have wasted my time scouting and hunting when all I needed to make big bucks appear is a positive attitude.....LOL
If you so chose to raise the bar so to speak – spend time scouting every week of the year – make the sacrifices it takes to put mature bucks down year after year, you would understand that we are “hunters”, and many are probably much more dedicated to the sport than you are. I doubt you have any idea what some hunters sacrifice and do for the passion of this sport – and I think you are better off not knowing
Yet again......we all wish we could be like you right?? Give me a break. If you are done walking on water for a second let me be the first to break it to ya Rack.......If you think you are the only one who spends time in the woods all year scouting, placing stands, cutting lanes and patterning game you are sadly mistaken. Be happy that your system and efforts pay off, but don't dismiss everyone else as a lazy wanna-be slob because we don't share your same model for success come hunting season.
There is no thrill in walking through the woods for hours in the dead of freezing winter marking trees and scouting. There is no thrill in cutting limbs, covered in ticks in 90 deg weather day after day. Hundreds of hours wasted in the off season it seems – I could of just bungie jumped……….eh
[sarcasm] Gee Rack all of us morons out here didn't realize you had to do stuff like that..........no wonder you are so much better then we could ever hope to be [/sarcasm]
You don't honestly believe you are the only person doing that stuff do you??
You can continue to convince yourself that trophy hunters are made by the area they hunt and not the commitment and actions they take. You will continue to be wrong.
You can't kill what isn't there Rack......even you [
] My dad's good friend who is an excellent woodsman and great hunter takes his son every year to Steuben County about 3-4 hours from here to hunt for wall hangers. They have 22 mounts together I think......MONSTERS!!! Guess how many racks they have mounted from our local woods?? None. Why can't these guys who are obviously capable of nailing big boys year after year do it in our local woods?? Are all the counties that produce monsters each year full of big bad trophy hunters like you........or are they full of big bad trophy deer every year?? I know you think that we are all fools and you could walk into any of our woods and drag a brute out within a year no matter what the past harvests have yielded........after all no one works as hard as you, as long as you, is as smart as you or "hunts the beds and hangs the heads" like you.
So you go right ahead and keep thinking that commitment, actions, and a positive attitude will make huge bucks appear out of thin air........and you will be wrong.
And don’t feel sorry for me – that thrill you have been basking in for the past few weeks – I have felt many, many times – and I bust my a$$ all year to insure it will happen again.
I don't feel sorry for you because you haven't felt that thrill........I feel sorry for you because that is the only thing that gives you a thrill. There is so much more to enjoy about hunting then worrying if a buck will make some meaningless book somewhere [:'(]
Man Rack, read your post and pretend someone else wrote it. Can you see how egotistic and full of yourself you sounded.......I hope so because I have never seen you post like that before and it's pretty ugly.