i feel ashamed guys...
12-03-2008, 08:46 AM
#41
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West Tennessee
Posts: 2,333
RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
12-03-2008, 09:00 AM
#42
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
Posts: 6,679
RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
Agreed... 100%. On the flip side of that coin, however, is the fact thatthere is also nothing wrong with rifle hunting continuing to trip your trigger - even after you've evolved.
ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
12-03-2008, 09:22 AM
#43
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: IOWA/25' UP
Posts: 7,145
RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
Agreed... 100%. On the flip side of that coin, however, is the fact thatthere is also nothing wrong with rifle hunting continuing to trip your trigger - even after you've evolved.
ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
12-03-2008, 09:25 AM
#44
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: IOWA/25' UP
Posts: 7,145
RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: PreacherTony
Agreeing with your flipped coin, LC ......It has NOTHING to do with evolving or reaching a different level .... both sound like you look down at gun hunters ...it has to do with how easily you bore or what floats your boat ........
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
Agreed... 100%. On the flip side of that coin, however, is the fact thatthere is also nothing wrong with rifle hunting continuing to trip your trigger - even after you've evolved.
ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
Nothing wrong with rifle hunting not tripping your trigger; doesn't trip mine either and I only hunt with a bow now. We are always evolving and reaching different levels in our life.
12-03-2008, 10:23 AM
#45
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: New Hartford, NY
Posts: 919
RE: i feel ashamed guys...
I certainly love bow hunting, and I think we could all agree that taking one with a bow is generally more challenging then with a rifle. BUT i hardly would go as far as saying shooting one with a rifle is easy or *gasp* boring. You could probably make the argument that hunting with a rifle can be more challenging because there is generally more hunting pressure and often times the rut is over which can limit deer movement.
I can certainly appreciate someone wanting to limit themselves only to bow hunting and maybe someday i'll get to that point too, but i wouldn't bet the farm on it haha. I know i get just as shaken up seeing a deer at 100 yards with a rifle in my hands, as i do when i see a deer at 20 yards with my bow. You might also want to think about other forms of gun hunting too. maybe a high powered modern rifle with a powerful scope isn't for you, but what about an open sighted 30-30, or a flintlock muzzleloader or a handgun. All of those would severely limit your ability to dump them at several hundred yards and would require to to get up close and personal. just more food for thought.
I can certainly appreciate someone wanting to limit themselves only to bow hunting and maybe someday i'll get to that point too, but i wouldn't bet the farm on it haha. I know i get just as shaken up seeing a deer at 100 yards with a rifle in my hands, as i do when i see a deer at 20 yards with my bow. You might also want to think about other forms of gun hunting too. maybe a high powered modern rifle with a powerful scope isn't for you, but what about an open sighted 30-30, or a flintlock muzzleloader or a handgun. All of those would severely limit your ability to dump them at several hundred yards and would require to to get up close and personal. just more food for thought.
12-03-2008, 06:19 PM
#46
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Milwaukee WI
Posts: 1,161
RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: HuntinGUS
IMHO I cannot understand the ashamed feeling. What are you ashamed of?
IMHO I cannot understand the ashamed feeling. What are you ashamed of?
The last buck I ever shot with my rifle was 4 seasons ago when I started bowhunting. After I shot it, I walked over to it and thought to myself, WOW I got about one tenth the rushthat I get with the bow. At that moment I didn't so much feel ashamed but I certainly wasn't anywhere near as proud of that buck as ones I've shot in the past. And at that moment, I sorta felt as if I'd done the buck and thus the creator wrong because I took a life that I wasn't more proud of. That was the year I decided I wouldn't ever shoot another buck with my rifle.
I think that is what the author means about the "shame" he felt.
12-03-2008, 07:01 PM
#47
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin/Michigan
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RE: i feel ashamed guys...
I'm curious as to all the guys that are bow only, don't get the rush of gun kills, feel ashamed of killing deer with a gun anymore and want nothing to do with gun hunting actually sold their guns????? Be honest....
12-03-2008, 07:32 PM
#49
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RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I'm curious as to all the guys that are bow only, don't get the rush of gun kills, feel ashamed of killing deer with a gun anymore and want nothing to do with gun hunting actually sold their guns????? Be honest....
I'm curious as to all the guys that are bow only, don't get the rush of gun kills, feel ashamed of killing deer with a gun anymore and want nothing to do with gun hunting actually sold their guns????? Be honest....
12-03-2008, 07:44 PM
#50
Join Date: Jul 2008
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RE: i feel ashamed guys...
ORIGINAL: my7pointmonster
Yesterday morning around 735 I shot a monster doe with my rifle. Well that's all fine and dandy but you know I wasn't happy or proud of it in any way granted it was a great shot and a monster doe but after I shot it I diddnt feel any excitement. I feel ashamed right now to call myself a hunter. I shot this doe and walked down with my friend gave him a high five and that was it. Maybe it was the fact that I wanted to see him shoot one more than I wanted to see myself shoot one and its scary to say it but I felt like since I shot it with my rifle I was "less" of a hunter because of it. Nothing was done illegally or anything of that nature but last night into this mornig I diddnt sleep so good. Its 20 after 6 right now and I can't sleep. I think its time for me to quit rifle hunting all together because if I'm gonna feel like this after I shoot a big doe than forget that I was happier when I went to my friends house and his 10 year old son shot his first doe I was happier for him than I was all day for myself. I've never experienced this when I shoot something with my bow. Sorry guys I just needed to vent I guess.
Ryan
Yesterday morning around 735 I shot a monster doe with my rifle. Well that's all fine and dandy but you know I wasn't happy or proud of it in any way granted it was a great shot and a monster doe but after I shot it I diddnt feel any excitement. I feel ashamed right now to call myself a hunter. I shot this doe and walked down with my friend gave him a high five and that was it. Maybe it was the fact that I wanted to see him shoot one more than I wanted to see myself shoot one and its scary to say it but I felt like since I shot it with my rifle I was "less" of a hunter because of it. Nothing was done illegally or anything of that nature but last night into this mornig I diddnt sleep so good. Its 20 after 6 right now and I can't sleep. I think its time for me to quit rifle hunting all together because if I'm gonna feel like this after I shoot a big doe than forget that I was happier when I went to my friends house and his 10 year old son shot his first doe I was happier for him than I was all day for myself. I've never experienced this when I shoot something with my bow. Sorry guys I just needed to vent I guess.
Ryan