Big buck contests?
#12
I thought about this thread for a bit and have to ask... what's the difference if someone joins a competition or not?
Everyone has a tag. Everyone is trying to harvest mature whitetail bucks. They compare their harvest afterwards and someone gets a dumb prize or recognition... I wouldn't sign up, but really don't see the harm in it.
If everything is done legal legal, then what's the difference if a group of hunters wants to get together and compare their bucks? It's done on here all the time.
Everyone has a tag. Everyone is trying to harvest mature whitetail bucks. They compare their harvest afterwards and someone gets a dumb prize or recognition... I wouldn't sign up, but really don't see the harm in it.
If everything is done legal legal, then what's the difference if a group of hunters wants to get together and compare their bucks? It's done on here all the time.
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where animals get eaten
Posts: 671
I thought about this thread for a bit and have to ask... what's the difference if someone joins a competition or not?
Everyone has a tag. Everyone is trying to harvest mature whitetail bucks. They compare their harvest afterwards and someone gets a dumb prize or recognition... I wouldn't sign up, but really don't see the harm in it.
If everything is done legal legal, then what's the difference if a group of hunters wants to get together and compare their bucks? It's done on here all the time.
Everyone has a tag. Everyone is trying to harvest mature whitetail bucks. They compare their harvest afterwards and someone gets a dumb prize or recognition... I wouldn't sign up, but really don't see the harm in it.
If everything is done legal legal, then what's the difference if a group of hunters wants to get together and compare their bucks? It's done on here all the time.
#14
I thought about this thread for a bit and have to ask... what's the difference if someone joins a competition or not?
Everyone has a tag. Everyone is trying to harvest mature whitetail bucks. They compare their harvest afterwards and someone gets a dumb prize or recognition... I wouldn't sign up, but really don't see the harm in it.
If everything is done legal legal, then what's the difference if a group of hunters wants to get together and compare their bucks? It's done on here all the time.
Everyone has a tag. Everyone is trying to harvest mature whitetail bucks. They compare their harvest afterwards and someone gets a dumb prize or recognition... I wouldn't sign up, but really don't see the harm in it.
If everything is done legal legal, then what's the difference if a group of hunters wants to get together and compare their bucks? It's done on here all the time.
Some us hunt for the love of the hunt, and have no interest in it.
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
When I was a kid being taught to hunt by my dad and grand dad I learned to have a solemn reverence for an animal I killed.
Had I ever taken a big buck or bull then used it to "win" a rifle or maybe a set of truck tires my grandpa would have had a talk with me. Out of respect for him I'll never claim a prize.......assuming I kill anything prize worthy in the future......
#17
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 595
I actually run one where I work. It is fun with people you know but as far as the big ones at gun shops and such I am not a big fan. With mine, it just gives the group something to shoot the breeze about and see what everyone is getting and mabey win the pot at the end of the season.
#18
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where animals get eaten
Posts: 671
Exactly.
When I was a kid being taught to hunt by my dad and grand dad I learned to have a solemn reverence for an animal I killed.
Had I ever taken a big buck or bull then used it to "win" a rifle or maybe a set of truck tires my grandpa would have had a talk with me. Out of respect for him I'll never claim a prize.......assuming I kill anything prize worthy in the future......
When I was a kid being taught to hunt by my dad and grand dad I learned to have a solemn reverence for an animal I killed.
Had I ever taken a big buck or bull then used it to "win" a rifle or maybe a set of truck tires my grandpa would have had a talk with me. Out of respect for him I'll never claim a prize.......assuming I kill anything prize worthy in the future......
#19
I do it for the love of the hunt... I love it so much that I know other people want to share in the hunt and, being that this is "huntingnet.com," live vicariously through some of these posts.
Really, I don't see how that makes one a braggart.
But, YMMV.
#20
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
I actually run one where I work. It is fun with people you know but as far as the big ones at gun shops and such I am not a big fan. With mine, it just gives the group something to shoot the breeze about and see what everyone is getting and mabey win the pot at the end of the season.