ORIGINAL: livbucks
Atlasman, you tried to counter my statement but only validated it.
It is very obvious that either you didn't even read what I wrote..........or you did and just didn't get what I was saying.
You said yourself that you love venison and fill your freezer with it year after year.
I do.
You meat hunters openly state that you love what you are doing and brag about how many does you got last year. Then you go and bash guys like me that don't want to shoot them.
When did I "bash" you??
I just gave you my take on what some of the QDM guys have said that you took as "bashing". I don't think they were "bashing" you...........I do think that they would like you to help out and not just cherry pick the benefits of others (their) hard work.
Maybe that isn't even their point.............it's just how I interpreted the so called "bashing" they gave you. Maybe one of the QDM guys will clarify.
If you are putting yourself out by shooting does why do you state how much you love doing it and eating it.
I am not putting myself out at all and I do love doint it and eating it. READ SLOWLY my friend. I said maybe some of the QDM guys don't feel like shooting another doe on a particular day either............but they do it because it NEEDS to be done in order to maintain the trophy bucks you enjoy hunting so much. They are helping you by shooting that doe.........how are you helping them??
I don't bash you for being a game hog, which is what they used to call guys like you.
Game hog??........You've got to be joking. It is mildly amusing that you have a post filled with comments like "Meat hunters like you" and "guys like you" and "game hog" etc..........what's even funnier is that it comes from a post you totally misread. Says a lot.
It just happens that the deer herd has grown into something that actually needs guys like you.
There's another one
And like I said before, I am thankful now that there are guys like you around who enjoy shooting does. Why do you call something that you obviously enjoy dirty work?
Geeeesh.......Go back and read it again. For some of the hardcore QDM guys out there that want big mature bucks just like you do shooting does may not be the most exciting thing in the world for them to do. The difference is that they do it because they know it HAS to be done. You don't and just sit back and let other people do it for you.
Kinda like having a dozen guys all own a cabin who love to hunt and spend the deer season kicking around logs at the fire and bragging about what hangs from the tree out front. Now everyone knows that all year you have to go up and cut the grass and pile firewood and patch the roof or fix the sink or trim some lanes or hang another stand.........etc. All that stuff may not be what you WANT to do that day but it NEEDS to be done in order for ALL of you to enjoy the place year after year right??
Now is it fair for 11 guys to do all that work and 1 guys just show up opening day with his stand on his back ready to hunt?? I bet that would make for some interesting fireside chats
I said before that I would gladly shoot does when it becomes ethical and legal to let them rot in the woods.
Pretty sad and sick thing to say.
Once again..........You claimed being "bashed".......I said I didn't think you were being "bashed". I then told you why I thought the hardcore QDM guys get a little worked up at "trophy" hunters who won't shoot a doe. I may have completely misinterpreted their comments but that's how I see it so far.
I don't practice QDM. I hunt adult deer.........period. If it has antlers on it's head I will hang the most recent on my wall and then replace them every couple years. I have one shoulder mount in the same spot. If it doesn't have antlers on it's head then that is fine too. I butcher all my own deer and get great satisfaction from knowing the meat my family eats went from field to freezer to dinner plate all by my hands only. I have plenty of money to buy whatever kind of meat is available.............just haven't needed to in a long time.
I don't think I would call myself a "meat hunter" because I like big bucks as much as the next guy out there. When I sit in my stand and day dream I picture some huge bruiser lumbering down the hillside headed right towards me. I am just not obsessed with them and get plenty of enjoyment from taking a doe or a smaller buck. I shot a "trophy" last year and yea it was really fun..........but not to the point that I could justify making it my only goal in the woods.
So, I am not a "meat" hunter.........or a "trophy" hunter.
Man,...........I guess I am just a DEER hunter. [
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