ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
Well i'm glad they are not all alike, and we don't have to worry about that. I rabbit, squirrel and other small game hunt and they are all alike (basically) so i'd still hunt.
But the obsession of chasing 1 buck all year or a certain quality of deer is certainly consuming. It's a different passion than just shooting what-ever-comes-by. It gets personal, so I can see his point.
So the obsession is a # on a scale of measuring racks or the rack itself and not the passion of the hunt? Do you appreciate anything else around you while hunting or just grinning and bearing it and waiting for the 150class buck to show himself? Just seems a shame to me thats' what it's boiled down to these days.
Dont' get me wrong, I have no problems with being out there hunting for a trophy buck (I do it myself), but that is probably secondary in respect to all the little things that go along with hunting.
WAIT, TIME OUT! I never said I don't enjoy each and every-time afield. Whether i see a good buck or not, is not how I judge my time in the bush. I'm strictly talking about what quality of animal I wish to harvest. Don't put words in my mouth that I only enjoy the hunting expirience if I shoot a "book" buck. Because that is not true at all. I enjoy watching does, smaller bucks, oppossums, tweety birds and the squirrel wrestling with that ear of corn that is as big as he is.
So in a simple statement I'll summarize. I love hunting, my choice is to pursue the better bucks in my area.
In fact I could have been done months ago, if I'd have taken that 2 1/2 year old basket 8 point that was under my stand. So perhaps I enjoy my time afield even more than you huh? Now that's probably not an accurate statement, (I hope) but if I was looking at it with tunnel vision I could come to that conclusion. Too each his own.