Is this how YOU feel about hunting?
08-06-2007 | 07:43 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
Atlas,
No, absolutely not. I honestly get just as pumped to shoot a doe as I do a buck. I hunt for 2 deer a year. One doe and one buck. However, if I have a full freezer from elk or mule deer or caribou or whatever, then I just hunt for a large buck because it's only about a 50/50 chance that I will get one and it still gives me an excuse to be in the woods.
Any deer with a bow is a trophy IMO.
No, absolutely not. I honestly get just as pumped to shoot a doe as I do a buck. I hunt for 2 deer a year. One doe and one buck. However, if I have a full freezer from elk or mule deer or caribou or whatever, then I just hunt for a large buck because it's only about a 50/50 chance that I will get one and it still gives me an excuse to be in the woods.
Any deer with a bow is a trophy IMO.
08-06-2007 | 07:58 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
Although I see both sides of this......I have thought about it since I saw the original post.
The "business" side of deer hunting (if they had no antlers) would simply shift to the eradication market. We'd have fewer taxidermists......fewer outfitters......fewer hunting related manufacturers......less technology.....etc...etc...etc...
So....the "antler" camp has a trickle down effect on the "heritage" camp (IMO). I'm not sure the advancements we've seen in bowhunting woud have come about so quickly if the pursuit of large racked deer/Pronghorn/elk/etc... wasn't so prominent.
I honestly don't have a deer hunting "heritage" background.....and I can say with 100% honesty....that I don't know for SURE if I'd have gotten into deer hunting if they were all antlerless. I got into the game at such a time in deer hunting's era. I don't think that makes me "shallow". I think it makes me honest. I just don't know.
The question posed is a good one. It makes you think. I'm not surprised.
The "business" side of deer hunting (if they had no antlers) would simply shift to the eradication market. We'd have fewer taxidermists......fewer outfitters......fewer hunting related manufacturers......less technology.....etc...etc...etc...
So....the "antler" camp has a trickle down effect on the "heritage" camp (IMO). I'm not sure the advancements we've seen in bowhunting woud have come about so quickly if the pursuit of large racked deer/Pronghorn/elk/etc... wasn't so prominent.
I honestly don't have a deer hunting "heritage" background.....and I can say with 100% honesty....that I don't know for SURE if I'd have gotten into deer hunting if they were all antlerless. I got into the game at such a time in deer hunting's era. I don't think that makes me "shallow". I think it makes me honest. I just don't know.
The question posed is a good one. It makes you think. I'm not surprised.
08-06-2007 | 08:18 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
In the infamous words of Davidmil, " Just go out and hunt and have fun". Man, if I worried about these things every season I would be one depressed hunter. I want to just have fun and if I get a nice buck, fine. If I don't, fine. I want my children to understand that hunting is recreation that provides meat for the table, not horns for the wall, or a debate item for the Gov't. Sheeesh.
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08-06-2007 | 08:23 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
So....the "antler" camp has a tickle down effect...
So....the "antler" camp has a tickle down effect...
I think that there would still be hunting and taxidermists. I mean people get fish mounted and they don't have any antlers. I think deer hunting would be the same; strictly based on weight and size of the body.
08-06-2007 | 08:28 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
I really don't think that is right at all. I go hunting to enjoy nature and see all of its wonders. I get to expierience something that most people never will by being out there. One morning I watched 5 otters run under my stand and play for about an hour. Another time I had 30 blue jays sitting right above my head in the same tree as I was in. I think it is simply amazing that I get the oppurtunity to hunt. A deer is something extra to me out there horns or none. If the deer has some nice antlers than yes I will go for it for sure, butatrophy class animal as some call themisnot what hunting is all about.
08-06-2007 | 08:29 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Although I see both sides of this......I have thought about it since I saw the original post.
The "business" side of deer hunting (if they had no antlers) would simply shift to the eradication market. We'd have fewer taxidermists......fewer outfitters......fewer hunting related manufacturers......less technology.....etc...etc...etc...
So....the "antler" camp has a tickle down effect on the "heritage" camp (IMO). I'm not sure the advancements we've seen in bowhunting woud have come about so quickly if the pursuit of large racked deer/Pronghorn/elk/etc... wasn't so prominent.
I honestly don't have a deer hunting "heritage" background.....and I can say with 100% honesty....that I don't know for SURE if I'd have gotten into deer hunting if they were all antlerless. I got into the game at such a time in deer hunting's era. I don't think that makes me "shallow". I think it makes me honest. I just don't know.
The question posed is a good one. It makes you think. I'm not surprised.
Although I see both sides of this......I have thought about it since I saw the original post.
The "business" side of deer hunting (if they had no antlers) would simply shift to the eradication market. We'd have fewer taxidermists......fewer outfitters......fewer hunting related manufacturers......less technology.....etc...etc...etc...
So....the "antler" camp has a tickle down effect on the "heritage" camp (IMO). I'm not sure the advancements we've seen in bowhunting woud have come about so quickly if the pursuit of large racked deer/Pronghorn/elk/etc... wasn't so prominent.
I honestly don't have a deer hunting "heritage" background.....and I can say with 100% honesty....that I don't know for SURE if I'd have gotten into deer hunting if they were all antlerless. I got into the game at such a time in deer hunting's era. I don't think that makes me "shallow". I think it makes me honest. I just don't know.
The question posed is a good one. It makes you think. I'm not surprised.
What I think would happen is there would not be enough money in deer hunting.
This lack of money I feel would be the whitetails demise. We farm we generally execpt loses with crop damage. How many farmers would of the above was true? What do you think those farmers would do?
We might have more hunting
and no leases, hmmm Who knows
08-06-2007 | 08:37 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
ORIGINAL: Germ
What I think would happen is there would not be enough money in deer hunting.
What I think would happen is there would not be enough money in deer hunting.
08-06-2007 | 08:38 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
I'm not saying I wouldn't hunt them. But I doubt I'd be passionate about it. I also think the season as we know it would be defunct. It would be like ground-hogs..no closed season!
08-06-2007 | 08:42 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
Atlas is a hater and this is a feable attempt on his part to bring quality bow hunters who practice quality deer management practices down to the "if it's brown, it's down" mentality of cave men.
Shooting does is so easy, even a cave man can do it. Ergo, Atlas is a cave man.
Shooting does is so easy, even a cave man can do it. Ergo, Atlas is a cave man.
08-06-2007 | 08:44 AM
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RE: Is this how you feel about hunting?
ORIGINAL: jelen
Atlas is a hater and this is a feable attempt on his part to bring quality bow hunters who practice quality deer management practices down to the "if it's brown, it's down" mentality of cave men.
Shooting does is so easy, even a cave man can do it. Ergo, Atlas is a cave man.
Atlas is a hater and this is a feable attempt on his part to bring quality bow hunters who practice quality deer management practices down to the "if it's brown, it's down" mentality of cave men.
Shooting does is so easy, even a cave man can do it. Ergo, Atlas is a cave man.