AHHHHH Still Hunting
11-20-2011 | 09:33 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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AHHHHH Still Hunting
I've talked about still hunting all my life. Here's someone who agrees with me.
No sportsman can ever feel much keener pleasure and self-satisfaction than when, after a successful stalk and good shot, he walks up to a grand elk lying dead in the cool shade of the great evergreens, and looks at the massive and yet finely moulded form, and at the mighty antlers which are to serve in the future as the trophy and proof of his successful skill. Still-hunting the elk on the mountains is as noble a kind of sport as can well be imagined; there is nothing more pleasant and enjoyable, and at the same time it demands that the hunter shall bring into play many manly qualities. There have been few days of my hunting life that were so full of unalloyed happiness as were those spent on the Bighorn range. From morning till night I was on foot, in cool, bracing air, now moving silently through the vast, melancholy pine forests, now treading the brink of high, rocky precipices, always amid the most grand and beautiful scenery; and always after as noble and lordly game as is to be found in the Western world.
Theodore Roosevelt
No sportsman can ever feel much keener pleasure and self-satisfaction than when, after a successful stalk and good shot, he walks up to a grand elk lying dead in the cool shade of the great evergreens, and looks at the massive and yet finely moulded form, and at the mighty antlers which are to serve in the future as the trophy and proof of his successful skill. Still-hunting the elk on the mountains is as noble a kind of sport as can well be imagined; there is nothing more pleasant and enjoyable, and at the same time it demands that the hunter shall bring into play many manly qualities. There have been few days of my hunting life that were so full of unalloyed happiness as were those spent on the Bighorn range. From morning till night I was on foot, in cool, bracing air, now moving silently through the vast, melancholy pine forests, now treading the brink of high, rocky precipices, always amid the most grand and beautiful scenery; and always after as noble and lordly game as is to be found in the Western world.
Theodore Roosevelt
11-20-2011 | 02:36 PM
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Dominant Buck
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Teddy Roosevelt was a well documented hunter. He hunted large dangerous game animals all over the world. He was also a great advocate on the preservation of wild lands. He was a great man, a great president, and a great sportsman. I have read some of his accounts and find him fascinating.
11-20-2011 | 04:03 PM
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That's not true Jon. He was dead set against the meat and hide hunters. He talked about it a lot.
You can read the small quote from him above, and see how he felt towards game. He gave them a lot of respect, and was against shooting does and cows. Still hunting is giving the animal every chance to use it's natural defenses.
You can read the small quote from him above, and see how he felt towards game. He gave them a lot of respect, and was against shooting does and cows. Still hunting is giving the animal every chance to use it's natural defenses.
