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#32
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: sporting = ethics ?
It's not that old of a picture..... but there weren't very many bowhunters around then. We really didn't have camo then. I think it was 2 or 3 years before they came out with Treebark. I was a newly wed in Texas, just back from Vietnam. The year would be 1971. I have no idea what prompted me to make that vest. My wife was making some curtains for our new house and I was feeling frisky and handy. That's a Texas piggy taken west of San Antonio about 30 miles. Note the slim mean finely tuned body on the hunter.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> I had put on about 35 pounds since returning from Nam.
Edited by - davidmil on 01/05/2003 10:02:04
Edited by - davidmil on 01/05/2003 10:02:04
#34
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: poughkeepsie NY USA
Posts: 24
RE: sporting = ethics ?
I dont know if I am?have not made myself clear,let me try once more:
Ethical:To take game in a manner that brings about its demise in a quick and honorable fashion.
Sporting: to NOT take unfair advantage of game by means of equipment,baiting,trap,ect.and therefor reduce that game to the stature of slaughterhouse animal.
Example of one w/o the other: A rifle hunter can dispatch (ethically)@ 300yrds. but gives the animal no chance.
When I sold/gave away my guns, it was because there was no sport in hunting with them.
So the following:
A bowhunter must get closer to the quarry to dispatch it quickly with a razor sharp broadhead.(I.E. ethical sport hunting)
I am seeing some here that are not grasping what I am saying,hope these examples help!
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Ethical:To take game in a manner that brings about its demise in a quick and honorable fashion.
Sporting: to NOT take unfair advantage of game by means of equipment,baiting,trap,ect.and therefor reduce that game to the stature of slaughterhouse animal.
Example of one w/o the other: A rifle hunter can dispatch (ethically)@ 300yrds. but gives the animal no chance.
When I sold/gave away my guns, it was because there was no sport in hunting with them.
So the following:
A bowhunter must get closer to the quarry to dispatch it quickly with a razor sharp broadhead.(I.E. ethical sport hunting)
I am seeing some here that are not grasping what I am saying,hope these examples help!
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#36
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fort Wayne Indiana USA
Posts: 574
RE: sporting = ethics ?
krisken - If you feel that the use of a range finder might give you an unfair advantage while bowhunting, why not use it while practicing at various ranges?
After a while you will find that you can more accurately estimate distances and will no longer need the range finder.
As to machines; any tool used to harvest an animal is a "machine".
Shoot often - Hunt always
After a while you will find that you can more accurately estimate distances and will no longer need the range finder.
As to machines; any tool used to harvest an animal is a "machine".
Shoot often - Hunt always
#37
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Murrysville PA USA
Posts: 119
RE: sporting = ethics ?
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beprepn, Did you get back into bowhunting just so you could become another one of the ethics Police?
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Worse yet, Krisken had already mentioned going back to stalking.
beprepn, Did you get back into bowhunting just so you could become another one of the ethics Police?
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Worse yet, Krisken had already mentioned going back to stalking.
#38
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Murrysville PA USA
Posts: 119
RE: sporting = ethics ?
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It's not that old of a picture..... but there weren't very many bowhunters around then. We really didn't have camo then. I think it was 2 or 3 years before they came out with Treebark. I was a newly wed in Texas, just back from Vietnam. The year would be 1971. I have no idea what prompted me to make that vest. My wife was making some curtains for our new house and I was feeling frisky and handy. That's a Texas piggy taken west of San Antonio about 30 miles. Note the slim mean finely tuned body on the hunter.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> I had put on about 35 pounds since returning from Nam.
Edited by - davidmil on 01/05/2003 10:02:04
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Heh, heh, after dark I was "green delta 40" for most of 1971, if a spec 4 can be a 40.
beprepn
It's not that old of a picture..... but there weren't very many bowhunters around then. We really didn't have camo then. I think it was 2 or 3 years before they came out with Treebark. I was a newly wed in Texas, just back from Vietnam. The year would be 1971. I have no idea what prompted me to make that vest. My wife was making some curtains for our new house and I was feeling frisky and handy. That's a Texas piggy taken west of San Antonio about 30 miles. Note the slim mean finely tuned body on the hunter.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> I had put on about 35 pounds since returning from Nam.
Edited by - davidmil on 01/05/2003 10:02:04
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Heh, heh, after dark I was "green delta 40" for most of 1971, if a spec 4 can be a 40.
beprepn
#39
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Murrysville PA USA
Posts: 119
RE: sporting = ethics ?
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This is the question I am pondering.
My tree stand has become a endless tail of success with every outing (it seems) ...
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"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer."
This is the question I am pondering.
My tree stand has become a endless tail of success with every outing (it seems) ...
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"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer."