"Better" deer = More remorse??
11-29-2007 | 01:18 AM
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RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
ORIGINAL: shed33
For me, these days,when I kill a particularbuck I have gotten to know on personal level, it's like killing an old friend.. I neverfelt the "old friend feeling"...until I started targeting specific bucks in 1998, thanks in part to a kind man that really taught me alot and inspired mewith bowhunting whitetails.
For me, these days,when I kill a particularbuck I have gotten to know on personal level, it's like killing an old friend.. I neverfelt the "old friend feeling"...until I started targeting specific bucks in 1998, thanks in part to a kind man that really taught me alot and inspired mewith bowhunting whitetails.
I have to admit, give me aparticular buck I know well and have worked for overa 160 class buck that happens to come strolling by in the rut, I can honestly say I would take the one I worked on..and care less about the score. hahaha but I dont mind seeing the odd 160 either..I wouldnt complain..I think you know what I mean..
11-29-2007 | 04:20 AM
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RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
Just wondering if you'd seen these bucks before, Atlas. If not...I don't understand the correlation. How can you build a "relationship" with a deer you've never seen....or feel bad about taking soemthing ou had no idea was even there? It would be like Troy's example where one just finds his way to you.
11-29-2007 | 07:11 AM
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RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
I feel a tinge of remorse every time ihave to kill a creature bigger than a fly, and you have to kill to truly hunt. If it is a deer, for example, that has made it through3+ seasons then I geteven more of that thatconflicting proud/awe/shame feeling for taking its life. Its a feeling that cannot be explaned to nonhunters, and needs no explanation to true hunters.
11-29-2007 | 03:14 PM
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RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Just wondering if you'd seen these bucks before, Atlas. If not...I don't understand the correlation. How can you build a "relationship" with a deer you've never seen....or feel bad about taking soemthing ou had no idea was even there? It would be like Troy's example where one just finds his way to you.
Just wondering if you'd seen these bucks before, Atlas. If not...I don't understand the correlation. How can you build a "relationship" with a deer you've never seen....or feel bad about taking soemthing ou had no idea was even there? It would be like Troy's example where one just finds his way to you.
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11-29-2007 | 03:15 PM
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RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
ORIGINAL: JoeRE
I feel a tinge of remorse every time ihave to kill a creature bigger than a fly, and you have to kill to truly hunt. If it is a deer, for example, that has made it through3+ seasons then I geteven more of that thatconflicting proud/awe/shame feeling for taking its life. Its a feeling that cannot be explaned to nonhunters, and needs no explanation to true hunters.
I feel a tinge of remorse every time ihave to kill a creature bigger than a fly, and you have to kill to truly hunt. If it is a deer, for example, that has made it through3+ seasons then I geteven more of that thatconflicting proud/awe/shame feeling for taking its life. Its a feeling that cannot be explaned to nonhunters, and needs no explanation to true hunters.
11-29-2007 | 03:20 PM
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From: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
In lies the game. That is what keeps us all going. The challenge. I have to say, I feel more joy when taking an old deer, buck or doe. It means I played the game a little better. If it was because the deer sliped up, its still part of the game.
God gave all herbs and animal to support us. I eat all the game I take, so i take no more remorse in the killing of the animal than I do the eating of a steak that someone else has killed. If its utilized, I feel no remorse. I will not take an animal I do not intend on eating, so there for, no remorse.
I do feel sick when I lose one. Last year I shot a doe about 30 yards from the clear fork of the Brazos river. She jumped in the river and died. She then washed down river to fast for me to recover her. I was sickend in the fact that the deer was wasted. I know another one of Gods creatures got to enjoy my loss, but I could not help but feel bad.
God gave all herbs and animal to support us. I eat all the game I take, so i take no more remorse in the killing of the animal than I do the eating of a steak that someone else has killed. If its utilized, I feel no remorse. I will not take an animal I do not intend on eating, so there for, no remorse.
I do feel sick when I lose one. Last year I shot a doe about 30 yards from the clear fork of the Brazos river. She jumped in the river and died. She then washed down river to fast for me to recover her. I was sickend in the fact that the deer was wasted. I know another one of Gods creatures got to enjoy my loss, but I could not help but feel bad.
11-29-2007 | 03:37 PM
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From: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
RE: "Better" deer = More remorse??
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Nope. I know EXACTLY what shed was talking about
(check the dates)
Nope. I know EXACTLY what shed was talking about
(check the dates)
