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I've had the opprotunity to visit your neck of the woods, some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Living in an area like that...You are extreamly lucky. Lots of nature there.

I'll stick to "ground Pounding". When I hunt it isn't about getting the kill. I've seen Bucks, Elk, Bear, and other various game that would make most "Hunters" pass out from lack of oxygen. I rairly take a shot though. (Mostly because I'm too lazy to try to pack out an animal that big). For me hunting is more about improving my skills. The only form of hunting that doesn't cost an arm and a leg in equiptment and time is the stalk. When you get close enough to the target of your stalk, after tracking it sometimes for days, that you could reach up and cut it's throat....now that's exciting.

The hunt that I wrote about cost my father-in-law and two friends an average $400.00 each in equiptment and ammo. It cost me 38 cents, and I'm the one that has meat in the fridge. I've heard from too many hunters about how discouraged they have become due to their lack of "LUCK" in their hunts and blamed it on everything from their equiptment to the weather. To me that's just not a good time. You sound like a person who understands what it is that I'm talking about.

A few years ago I took some time to give an associate some tracking pointers and now he get's trophy game everytime he hunts.

I'm not putting down the tree swingers out there, it's just not what I call hunting.

SSG Martin