High Fence - Real Life Scenario
08-06-2008 | 11:48 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
That's a good quote. Your Dad must be a pretty good guy.
ORIGINAL: robbcayman
My dad always said this to me " Boy, if you are carrying a backpack I will let you carry it, but when you haveaboulder to deal withI will assist you." Hence, let your son make his own decisions, especially since it isn't that big ofone IMHO.
My dad always said this to me " Boy, if you are carrying a backpack I will let you carry it, but when you haveaboulder to deal withI will assist you." Hence, let your son make his own decisions, especially since it isn't that big ofone IMHO.
08-06-2008 | 11:51 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
If I asked it in that manner I apologize. What I was trying to do was get a consensus on how to handle it.
I don't see it that way.....but I could be wrong. I think a vibrant discussion is healthy....and this one is WAY tame!
If I offended you I am sorry. Don't let anyone make this decision for you though. If you think it's wrong then don't go.
Why do you have to come on a forum and ask a bunch of guys who you know are going to have different opinions on whether you should go on a hunt or not?
As usual, a post on this forum has ended in adebate.
If I offended you I am sorry. Don't let anyone make this decision for you though. If you think it's wrong then don't go.
08-06-2008 | 11:53 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
My suggestion would be to take the offer, film the hunt and let your son decide for HIMSELF whether or not he likes it. I think it's wrong to force your beliefs on him. It sounds like a one time opportunity.
A lot of you guys really need to get off your high horses and quit looking down on other hunters hunting in a PERFECTLY LEGAL MANNER.
A lot of you guys really need to get off your high horses and quit looking down on other hunters hunting in a PERFECTLY LEGAL MANNER.
08-06-2008 | 11:55 AM
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
Just for poops and giggles.....the more I think about this.....the moreI wonder how this differs from say your son bringing home a girlfriend of a different race (insofar as leaving him to make his own life decisions).
I wouldn't set him up with her.....but at 16....is he old enough to make that decision on his own? Would I empower him in this decision, though? Let him use the car? Give him some spending cash? etc...?
Totally different subject....but the answers to each are likely relative.
Is he old enough at 16 to make these decisions for himself?
Remember....it isn't about me.
I wouldn't set him up with her.....but at 16....is he old enough to make that decision on his own? Would I empower him in this decision, though? Let him use the car? Give him some spending cash? etc...?
Totally different subject....but the answers to each are likely relative.
Is he old enough at 16 to make these decisions for himself?
Remember....it isn't about me.
08-06-2008 | 11:58 AM
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
Take him and yall kill some really nice bucks, dont peep a word of it on HNI, and then post pictures of the "North Carolina" monsters you guys bagged..
HAHA
In all truth, I would let him decide.
HAHA
In all truth, I would let him decide.
08-06-2008 | 11:58 AM
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
ORIGINAL: Mike from Texas
A lot of you guys really need to get off your high horses and quit looking down on other hunters hunting in a PERFECTLY LEGAL MANNER.
A lot of you guys really need to get off your high horses and quit looking down on other hunters hunting in a PERFECTLY LEGAL MANNER.
08-06-2008 | 12:03 PM
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RE: High Fence - Real Life Scenario
GMMAT, It's always good to get different points of view, but in the end, it's all up to how both you and your son feel about it. I'm going bow hunting with my son (who's 25) for the first time this fall. We have had the high fence discussion before, in fact he brought the topic up after watching a hunting show. His comment was "That's not hunting." I came back with the place they showed was several hundred acres and it's not like they tied the deer up in front of the shooter. And his response was something like "I don't care, it's still not hunting. They have tons of animals in there that are not allowed to roam freely, its not hunting." His friend who had been quiet up to that point said "I'd do it in a heartbeat! Think of it, you don't have to sit out there for weeks on end hoping a deer might come by, you know there will be one coming by."
So, it really doesn't matter what each one of us here think about it, it is completely about you and your son's attitudes towards it. Discuss it with him and see how he feels about high fence hunting.
Best of luck on this one.
Mark
So, it really doesn't matter what each one of us here think about it, it is completely about you and your son's attitudes towards it. Discuss it with him and see how he feels about high fence hunting.
Best of luck on this one.
Mark
