I don't think I've seen that here. I have seen some guys wishing their fellow hunters succeed but that is a far, far cry from claiming they do everything possible to help fellow hunters succeed.

Ok that is much better, you're still off the list[:-]

What any of that has to do with supporting the philosophy of wishing failure on other hunters because of their hunting style remains foggy to me.

Please keep common sense out of this thread BL[8D]

We all have to be comfortable with where that line is as it relates to the extent of sharing.There are all kinds of hunters out there.I have a soft spot for old timers,and for kids,and for new hunters who are sincerely working their tails off but havn't quite put the pieces together and will likely extend myself more with these individuals.But the difficult to get to or hidden area's,or consistent big buck or game rich area's that I have put forth the sweat and shoe leather to fine are mine until someone else finds them on their own.
As an aside I had a friend who was an extremely accomplished hunter,(possibly the best I had ever known) who would use my sense of ethics against me.He knew if he told me he hunted certain area's that I would stay out of them,at one point I said to him Stanley you can't lock up the entire county so you need to stop mentioning every area you have ever hunted or may hunt.We all have to come to terms with our sense of right and wrong and fairness.

Fair enough Bruce... So take it one step further... If everybody here is just "wishing" that their fellow hunters succeed - but they're not actually doing anything about it (Let's just pretend that they COULD if they WANTED TO)...

Then are they really being "supportive?" Or are they just sitting back on their heels while everybody else drowns in failure?

In my world view: You're either helping somebody, or you're not. If you're not, just be a big boy and be prepared to admit that you're not.

Fran if I am ever in trouble, you're my Lawyer[8D]

BTW I wish you well for your 2008 season

False logic yet again. Not bending over backwards tohelp someone is not the same as wishing failure on them.

What else ya got?

Well, I suppose in your world view that everyone would post maps of where they see every rub and scrape, every buck group sighting, every animal they see and every animal they shoot and evryone could hunt on evryone else's property. And they would post these maps on the "map wall" at every pro shop in every town. Nice fantasy, but it hardly makes your point.

But what we do when leaving public property and meeting other hunters is tell them what we saw, where and when we saw it. They have done the same for us. Hunters we didn't know, sharing information with each other to be "supportive" of each other. We help when the opportunity presents itself. I would consider that being "supportive".

I gun hunt as well... If I had to choose, I would rather bow hunt all day long...