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What things do you like about bowhunting in this new age? What don't you like?? If you could bring back something from the early days, (relative to how old you are) what would it be?? For me...I love the new bows, they are wonderful, camo is not an issue for me, I liked it in the late 80's and early 90's...I like the tree stands of today...I don't like it being so commericialized...dvd's with so many outfitted hunts for big bucks...yeh they are neat to watch, but it's just not realistic for me..I also long for the days when there weren't as many people bowhunting...I know that sounds bad, but it was one thing that could get you permission on a farm or land before the gun hunters could...now everybody is bowhunting, and i think that it is great for us as a whole, but with so many doing it, the bowhunter is not a novelty anymore...I like the technology of today, but the big business had tainted it all..
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I like carbon arrows and expandable broadheads. I also like the safe tree stands
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I forgot about the carbon arrows!!!
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Landon...I wasn't a deer hunter, growing up. I began hunting small game when I was around 9-10.....and I've always hunted "something".
I grew up in VERY rural NC. I can count on one hand the number of deer I saw in our rural NC farm from the time I was born until I went away to college (actually 3 fingers.....and two of those deer were spotted in a field on a beach trip, once). That's the truth. I saw my first wild turkey on a return trip to college in 1987. I was riding the Blue Ridge Parkway.....and didn't know what it was. I think we (deer hunters) would be remiss if we didn't take into account the sheer explosive rise in deer populations.....as we (as a whole)answer this question. The population of whitetail deer in my state has risen over 450% since 1977. I think this is the "golden age" of deer hunting in our state (OUR state)....and it could be even better. That's gonna bring a LOT of people out of the woodworks (guilty here, likely). |
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Treestands and equipment technology have come a long way...
Access to land (lack of) and commercialization would be the 2 negatives IMO. |
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I LOVE the cold weather products. I spent many a year suffering and freezing my butt off while hunting. Never again, I paid my dues on the cold weather/tough guy thing for years.
I like the hard work that is involved in the places I hunt...nothing comes easy most of the time. That has not changed for me over the course of the years I have hunted, minus a few trips to some private land with an abundance of deer. Hunting boots seem to be getting alot better, and for my aching feet that is a wonderful feeling. I do not like how hard it is to find a place to hunt. It also seems that all the old farmers are selling their property to people who are destroying all the wonderful habit. I don't blame the farmers one bit as they have busted their butts their whole lives and now want to reap the benefits and enjoy the remaining years of their lives via the money they have earned from the land sales. |
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I started hunting in the 70's. I could go bow hunting just about anywhere I wanted. Archery was called "primative weapon season" then. LOL
Land up north sold for $25 - $50 an acre! My grandpa bought a lake lot (3 acres w/ lake frontage) for $3500! There was no internet!:DI never hunted with my i-pod:D. My arrow flew slow enough that I could see where they went. A fall away rest was one that fell off your bow.lol My bow was so slow I could use a bale of hay as a target. When I shot a deer I had to wait til I got home to call my friends. Then I had to stand next to the phone and talk because it was attached with a cord. I didn't know Pope or Young. I used a baker tree stand. Anyone remember those tree burners? A quad was a muscle group. I kinda miss those days:D |
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Bakers were death traps!!!
Thats one thing i like the most about today, the climbers, I remember my first climber 13 yrs ago (at the ripe ol age of 12:D)man I hated having to bear hug the tree to go up, and then if you stepped on the wrong part it might kick out! One thing i miss is the fingers/hedge rows in fields, the farmers around our family farm realized they'd get more crops in if they cut all the thickets out and planted them... [:@] It was not uncommon for me to see 60 deer in an afternoon sit, granted this was slightly over populated but it was amazing none the less... That has dropped down to averaging 3-6 deer per sit, mostly because we had an EHD epidemic that killed off close to 80% of our herd in 07 but also because they lost good cover, the populationis already starting to recover now, so I expect in a year or two to be back up to 10-15 deer per sit.We are in the process of planting thickets as well so that should help emensely. Other areas are the opposite, neighborhoods popped up and the deer population exploded, more food and less hunting! |
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priceless Todd!
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When I started hunting Schultzy weighed 8 pounds - 11 oz.[8D]:D:):eek:
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I love: The safer,more comfortable treestands, warmer clothes!, Hot Hands!, higher powered scopes. But just like VA, I wish it wasn't so commercialized. I hate going to a store's hunting/outdoors section and seeing all of the junk that they sell. It makes me mad.
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Im easy when it comes to hunting, I do like the new bows,stands and other equipment but i just love the hand and foot warmers they just make those long sits more enjoyable.
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ORIGINAL: magicman54494 When I started hunting Schultzy weighed 8 pounds - 11 oz.[8D]:D:):eek: How times have changed! That's pretty damn close on the weight too. I think I was 8lbs 15oz or something like that. |
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I like have endless choices for arrows, rest, sights, bows, etc. Instead of going to the archery shop and ordering a " # 1", which was a Whitetail 2, dozen gamegetter 2's, and some razorback 5's.:D
I don't miss: overdraws flipper rests crackshot releases (i must have dropped the one I had 5,000 times) brass sight pins (had to raid moms finger nail polish to brighten them more than once) butane handwarmers (anyone ever use those dangerous SOB's??) |
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ORIGINAL: Schultzy ORIGINAL: magicman54494 When I started hunting Schultzy weighed 8 pounds - 11 oz.[8D]:D:):eek: How times have changed! That's pretty damn close on the weight too. I think I was 8lbs 15oz or something like that. |
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overdraws and flippers....ahhhh yes.....I remember well!!
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I have to agree with the cold weather gear too. That has come a LONG way. I remember the days coming home from a hunt and taking about 7 hours to thaw out. Feet would be cold and wet. Hands wouldn't have feeling in them. If you moved your face it would crack. Shivering constantly on stand. I don't miss those days too much. Thank you under armour, hand warmers, insulated boots, and cold weather camo.:D
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ORIGINAL: buttonbuckmaster ORIGINAL: Schultzy ORIGINAL: magicman54494 When I started hunting Schultzy weighed 8 pounds - 11 oz.[8D]:D:):eek: How times have changed! That's pretty damn close on the weight too. I think I was 8lbs 15oz or something like that. |
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What things do you like about bowhunting in this new age? What don't you like?? If you could bring back something from the early days, (relative to how old you are) what would it be?? |
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That's we love ya Steve!
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In the early days a stick and a string was just that. There was some nostalgia to it howeverif you could get by the people thatchuckled silently shaking theirhead when you walked away. They no doubtwondered why you would freeze your butt off trying to bring down a deer such an ancient weapon when a gun would be so much easier. To this day there is something about traditional gear that holds a special place in my heart. I think it has to do with growing up as a kid making your own bows and arrows out of what you could find. Watching the twenty foot flight of those fish tailing arrows was mesmerizing.
Then came those new fangle "wheel bows" that were loud, ugly, and inefficient. I recall hitting a buck in the "sweet spot" with one and getting almost zero penetration. There was definitely plenty of room for impovement and with time it came. The modern compound may still be ugly to some but it is an efficient, fast, quiet (subjective to the listener of course) and powerful machine. The proverbial "dragon slayer" of the deer woods if you will. There are plenty more positives I could expound upon. They out weigh the negatives by far; and yes we are living in "the good old days" of deer hunting as we speak. It is the "under belly" of our pastime that troubles me... The monster that has been generated by media involvement may be self consuming. Who grabs their bow and justgoes deer hunting anymore? Why hunt anything but a giant mega-monster, you know the one, that double main beamed triple drop tined twenty point three hundred pound food plot fed thirty year old buck that we have six hundred and eighty two photos of from our one hundred and one scouting cameras placed in precisely the right spot on the lease we own! I am as guilty as anybodywhen it comes to the addiction to a large head gear, but "horn porn" has taken us to new levels of "debotchery" in the hunting industry. Fights both physical and legal over the size of antlers are not an uncommonstory anymore. Hero status and financial gain that can be achieved by either killing a big buck or giving one the chance to is mind boggling for me. We are not curing cancer here... I don't want my comments to turn into a fight about leasing or outfitters or the farmers making or not making money. We have turned a corner and I doubt very much we will go back. Land that was once accessible to my children and grand children is now unattainable. The bottom line is I know how much my life has been enriched through the experiences in the outdoors.There aremany youngmen and women today thatwon't get the opportunity to enjoy a similar fate.Perhaps that experience would keep them out of trouble and may even inspire them to be a more productive citizen, who knows. The question was asked "If you could bring something back from the early days... what would it be?" My answer: When hunting really was a pastime....anda big buck really was just that, nothing more nothing less... |
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ORIGINAL: Antler Eater In the early days a stick and a string was just that. There was some nostalgia to it howeverif you could get by the people thatchuckled silently shaking theirhead when you walked away. They no doubtwondered why you would freeze your butt off trying to bring down a deer such an ancient weapon when a gun would be so much easier. To this day there is something about traditional gear that holds a special place in my heart. I think it has to do with growing up as a kid making your own bows and arrows out of what you could find. Watching the twenty foot flight of those fish tailing arrows was mesmerizing. Then came those new fangle "wheel bows" that were loud, ugly, and inefficient. I recall hitting a buck in the "sweet spot" with one and getting almost zero penetration. There was definitely plenty of room for impovement and with time it came. The modern compound may still be ugly to some but it is an efficient, fast, quiet (subjective to the listener of course) and powerful machine. The proverbial "dragon slayer" of the deer woods if you will. There are plenty more positives I could expound upon. They out weigh the negatives by far; and yes we are living in "the good old days" of deer hunting as we speak. It is the "under belly" of our pastime that troubles me... The monster that has been generated by media involvement may be self consuming. Who grabs their bow and justgoes deer hunting anymore? Why hunt anything but a giant mega-monster, you know the one, that double main beamed triple drop tined twenty point three hundred pound food plot fed thirty year old buck that we have six hundred and eighty two photos of from our one hundred and one scouting cameras placed in precisely the right spot on the lease we own! I am as guilty as anybodywhen it comes to the addiction to a large head gear, but "horn porn" has taken us to new levels of "debotchery" in the hunting industry. Fights both physical and legal over the size of antlers are not an uncommonstory anymore. Hero status and financial gain that can be achieved by either killing a big buck or giving one the chance to is mind boggling for me. We are not curing cancer here... I don't want my comments to turn into a fight about leasing or outfitters or the farmers making or not making money. We have turned a corner and I doubt very much we will go back. Land that was once accessible to my children and grand children is now unattainable. The bottom line is I know how much my life has been enriched through the experiences in the outdoors.There aremany youngmen and women today thatwon't get the opportunity to enjoy a similar fate.Perhaps that experience would keep them out of trouble and may even inspire them to be a more productive citizen, who knows. The question was asked "If you could bring something back from the early days... what would it be?" My answer: When hunting really was a pastime....anda big buck really was just that, nothing more nothing less... |
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ORIGINAL: Antler Eater In the early days a stick and a string was just that. There was some nostalgia to it howeverif you could get by the people thatchuckled silently shaking theirhead when you walked away. They no doubtwondered why you would freeze your butt off trying to bring down a deer such an ancient weapon when a gun would be so much easier. To this day there is something about traditional gear that holds a special place in my heart. I think it has to do with growing up as a kid making your own bows and arrows out of what you could find. Watching the twenty foot flight of those fish tailing arrows was mesmerizing. Then came those new fangle "wheel bows" that were loud, ugly, and inefficient. I recall hitting a buck in the "sweet spot" with one and getting almost zero penetration. There was definitely plenty of room for impovement and with time it came. The modern compound may still be ugly to some but it is an efficient, fast, quiet (subjective to the listener of course) and powerful machine. The proverbial "dragon slayer" of the deer woods if you will. There are plenty more positives I could expound upon. They out weigh the negatives by far; and yes we are living in "the good old days" of deer hunting as we speak. It is the "under belly" of our pastime that troubles me... The monster that has been generated by media involvement may be self consuming. Who grabs their bow and justgoes deer hunting anymore? Why hunt anything but a giant mega-monster, you know the one, that double main beamed triple drop tined twenty point three hundred pound food plot fed thirty year old buck that we have six hundred and eighty two photos of from our one hundred and one scouting cameras placed in precisely the right spot on the lease we own! I am as guilty as anybodywhen it comes to the addiction to a large head gear, but "horn porn" has taken us to new levels of "debotchery" in the hunting industry. Fights both physical and legal over the size of antlers are not an uncommonstory anymore. Hero status and financial gain that can be achieved by either killing a big buck or giving one the chance to is mind boggling for me. We are not curing cancer here... I don't want my comments to turn into a fight about leasing or outfitters or the farmers making or not making money. We have turned a corner and I doubt very much we will go back. Land that was once accessible to my children and grand children is now unattainable. The bottom line is I know how much my life has been enriched through the experiences in the outdoors.There aremany youngmen and women today thatwon't get the opportunity to enjoy a similar fate.Perhaps that experience would keep them out of trouble and may even inspire them to be a more productive citizen, who knows. The question was asked "If you could bring something back from the early days... what would it be?" My answer: When hunting really was a pastime....anda big buck really was just that, nothing more nothing less... Man that was deep:) The question was asked "If you could bring something back from the early days... what would it be?" I would want to hunt with Gramps in his 30's like I am now. Boy would we have fun. When I started there was not the "pressure" of having to kill a deer. Hunting was hunting!! |
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Ah, a typical November morning (long before I ever picked up a bow). I can smell Community coffee brewing in the kitchen. (Best Coffee ever.) I remember getting a bag of groceries together that would become our lunch. Spam, Potted Meat, Sardines, Saltine Crackers, Light Bread, maybe some fruit, some can Cokes. Then I would bundle up with Long Johns (thermals), 3 shirts, 2 pairs of pants and a suit of those old Walls Blizzard-proof dark green insulated coveralls, 2 pairs of socks, and a pair of those green lace-up knee high rubber boots. I would then stuff my pockets with matches and Copenhagen. Go to the dog pen and load up 6 to 8 Walker Hounds. Make sure I had plenty of Buckshot for the shotgun and then me, my brother and Dad were off. We would meet up at a planned spot with the group which consisted usually of my Grandpa Ray, grandpa Herbert, Kent, Ulyss, Dave, Leroy, and maybe a few others. The drive would be planned and the standers dropped off. Freezing my 10 yr old butt off. Frost everywhere. Then you could hear my Dad in the distance whoop to the hounds as the drive started. Not long after, one of the dogs would yelp. Once, twice. Then another would join. Then another, until they were hot on the trail. The race was on and expectations high, as you wondered, "will they run him by me this morning?" Man, those were the days. All but a few of those guys are gone now. Not many even use hounds here anymore since all the timber has become leased. Oh, but just to go back to those simple times for just one season. Man, I miss those days/guys.
Today, from what I see, it is usually all about the horns, with the exception of a few. Do I like the technology? Sure. Do I like the simplicity of the old way. For certain. Will I ever go to a more simple form of hunting. For sure. (Trad) What I hate more than anything is the lack of free places to hunt. When I was growing up, I could hunt almost anywhare I wanted within a 20 mile radius of my home. I miss those days. LT |
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ORIGINAL: LouisianaTomkat Ah, a typical November morning (long before I ever picked up a bow). I can smell Community coffee brewing in the kitchen. (Best Coffee ever.) I remember getting a bag of groceries together that would become our lunch. Spam, Potted Meat, Sardines, Saltine Crackers, Light Bread, maybe some fruit, some can Cokes. Then I would bundle up with Long Johns (thermals), 3 shirts, 2 pairs of pants and a suit of those old Walls Blizzard-proof dark green insulated coveralls, 2 pairs of socks, and a pair of those green lace-up knee high rubber boots. I would then stuff my pockets with matches and Copenhagen. Go to the dog pen and load up 6 to 8 Walker Hounds. Make sure I had plenty of Buckshot for the shotgun and then me, my brother and Dad were off. We would meet up at a planned spot with the group which consisted usually of my Grandpa Ray, grandpa Herbert, Kent, Ulyss, Dave, Leroy, and maybe a few others. The drive would be planned and the standers dropped off. Freezing my 10 yr old butt off. Frost everywhere. Then you could hear my Dad in the distance whoop to the hounds as the drive started. Not long after, one of the dogs would yelp. Once, twice. Then another would join. Then another, until they were hot on the trail. The race was on and expectations high, as you wondered, "will they run him by me this morning?" Man, those were the days. All but a few of those guys are gone now. Not many even use hounds here anymore since all the timber has become leased. Oh, but just to go back to those simple times for just one season. Man, I miss those days/guys. Today, from what I see, it is usually all about the horns, with the exception of a few. Do I like the technology? Sure. Do I like the simplicity of the old way. For certain. Will I ever go to a more simple form of hunting. For sure. (Trad) What I hate more than anything is the lack of free places to hunt. When I was growing up, I could hunt almost anywhare I wanted within a 20 mile radius of my home. I miss those days. LT |
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ORIGINAL: Antler Eater In the early days a stick and a string was just that. There was some nostalgia to it howeverif you could get by the people thatchuckled silently shaking theirhead when you walked away. They no doubtwondered why you would freeze your butt off trying to bring down a deer such an ancient weapon when a gun would be so much easier. To this day there is something about traditional gear that holds a special place in my heart. I think it has to do with growing up as a kid making your own bows and arrows out of what you could find. Watching the twenty foot flight of those fish tailing arrows was mesmerizing. Then came those new fangle "wheel bows" that were loud, ugly, and inefficient. I recall hitting a buck in the "sweet spot" with one and getting almost zero penetration. There was definitely plenty of room for impovement and with time it came. The modern compound may still be ugly to some but it is an efficient, fast, quiet (subjective to the listener of course) and powerful machine. The proverbial "dragon slayer" of the deer woods if you will. There are plenty more positives I could expound upon. They out weigh the negatives by far; and yes we are living in "the good old days" of deer hunting as we speak. It is the "under belly" of our pastime that troubles me... The monster that has been generated by media involvement may be self consuming. Who grabs their bow and justgoes deer hunting anymore? Why hunt anything but a giant mega-monster, you know the one, that double main beamed triple drop tined twenty point three hundred pound food plot fed thirty year old buck that we have six hundred and eighty two photos of from our one hundred and one scouting cameras placed in precisely the right spot on the lease we own! I am as guilty as anybodywhen it comes to the addiction to a large head gear, but "horn porn" has taken us to new levels of "debotchery" in the hunting industry. Fights both physical and legal over the size of antlers are not an uncommonstory anymore. Hero status and financial gain that can be achieved by either killing a big buck or giving one the chance to is mind boggling for me. We are not curing cancer here... I don't want my comments to turn into a fight about leasing or outfitters or the farmers making or not making money. We have turned a corner and I doubt very much we will go back. Land that was once accessible to my children and grand children is now unattainable. The bottom line is I know how much my life has been enriched through the experiences in the outdoors.There aremany youngmen and women today thatwon't get the opportunity to enjoy a similar fate.Perhaps that experience would keep them out of trouble and may even inspire them to be a more productive citizen, who knows. The question was asked "If you could bring something back from the early days... what would it be?" My answer: When hunting really was a pastime....anda big buck really was just that, nothing more nothing less...  |
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ORIGINAL: LouisianaTomkat Ah, a typical November morning (long before I ever picked up a bow). I can smell Community coffee brewing in the kitchen. (Best Coffee ever.) I remember getting a bag of groceries together that would become our lunch. Spam, Potted Meat, Sardines, Saltine Crackers, Light Bread, maybe some fruit, some can Cokes. Then I would bundle up with Long Johns (thermals), 3 shirts, 2 pairs of pants and a suit of those old Walls Blizzard-proof dark green insulated coveralls, 2 pairs of socks, and a pair of those green lace-up knee high rubber boots. I would then stuff my pockets with matches and Copenhagen. Go to the dog pen and load up 6 to 8 Walker Hounds. Make sure I had plenty of Buckshot for the shotgun and then me, my brother and Dad were off. We would meet up at a planned spot with the group which consisted usually of my Grandpa Ray, grandpa Herbert, Kent, Ulyss, Dave, Leroy, and maybe a few others. The drive would be planned and the standers dropped off. Freezing my 10 yr old butt off. Frost everywhere. Then you could hear my Dad in the distance whoop to the hounds as the drive started. Not long after, one of the dogs would yelp. Once, twice. Then another would join. Then another, until they were hot on the trail. The race was on and expectations high, as you wondered, "will they run him by me this morning?" Man, those were the days. All but a few of those guys are gone now. Not many even use hounds here anymore since all the timber has become leased. Oh, but just to go back to those simple times for just one season. Man, I miss those days/guys. Today, from what I see, it is usually all about the horns, with the exception of a few. Do I like the technology? Sure. Do I like the simplicity of the old way. For certain. Will I ever go to a more simple form of hunting. For sure. (Trad) What I hate more than anything is the lack of free places to hunt. When I was growing up, I could hunt almost anywhare I wanted within a 20 mile radius of my home. I miss those days. LT Another great post!!! |
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I love the safety devices. I remember hanging onto a dang limb 12 feet off the ground more than oncethinking I could pull off a shot with my recurve.[&:] I love the bows, straight arrows and some gadgets, like rangefinders. I too think it's gone too far. It's now deer farming and growing to so many and they describe it as the FUTURE of HUNTING. I call it the end of the hunting traditions that started it all. It's become a sport of the rich in many places. People paying $20,000 to say they shot a 175 inch rack of bones. I remember when the meat was important. When they have a TV show dedicated to deer farming and talk about food plots(another name for food lots for cattle) and talk about the same thing week after week. It's just mind boggling to me that people would spend that much time and moneyso they can shoot a big set of horns. It's not hunting as I'd like to see it. Soon if Someone wants to hunt, they'll have to take up roughed grouse or ducks or something like that.
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Magicman, when you started hunting I had been back from Vietnam a few years where they refered to me as The Old Man. Go figure, me, the old man. LOL I still have one of those phones that's hooked to the cord, it's the only kind that'll work when the power is out. Our cell service sucks here around the house. Cell phone, hell, I remember sending snail mail to tell people I shot a couple partridge.
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Straight arrows, fast and quiet bows, high tech clothing and equipment all make for some enjoyable times in the woods these days. High deer populations give us the ability to "pass" any number of deer during the season. In the old days, any deer that walked by was going down! Now I pass shots on more than a dozen occasions each season. As someone said earlier though, it would be great to hunt with my grandpa. He would have loved the opportunity to hunt the way we do today.
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Thermacell. Greatest invention ever. Keeps the mosquitos off me and hides my scent at the same time.
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The pure magic of hunting when I was younger.
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Antler Eater....awesome bud..just awesome....LT, you just describe my childhood and how I hunt every saturday of the season come Nov 15 to Jan 3!!! Ahh yes....the sound of hounds with frost on the ground....only those who have experienced it know it's like to hear it....
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Without reading any of the other posts...
I like todays hi-tech clothing. Easier than ever to stay warm and dry. I like the way the bow companies have stepped it up with the research and development. I like that I can get on the internet and within a short period of time can get myself set up with not only a license from another state, but maps and directions to public land. The list goes on really.... I dislike that the focus has gone from being happy with any buck to having to take a big buck. Sure...we all wanted them back in the day, and still do today, but were mostly just happy to be out and about and thrilled just to take a buck regardless of size. The main focus wasn't on killing a P&Y. Hell...we never even talked about deer scores. IMO, the commercialization andpursuit of big bucks has created a situation where access to good hunting land has dried up in many areas for a lot of regular Joes. I don't like that too much either. It used to be easy to get access...not so much anymore. I also dislike that bow companies have taken all that wonderful R&D that they've done and put too many eggs into the wrong basket. I mean really...How does a 29" bow actually help me? Enough of this...I'm showing my age.:D |
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I miss playing rummy (and getting my ass whipped at it) with my dad up in Nelson County, VA on our Thanksgiving weekend deer hunts... I don't think we ever saw a deer in the 10 years or so we did those. Shot a couple grouse and a few squirrels. I vividly remember the first time I beat him in a round to 500.
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I would go back to the days of less outfitters and no leasing
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Oh the friends and contacts i have made through Internet bowhunting endevers ;)That is the new wave of things i like and the wealth of information is outstanding. I wish they would bring back the lifetime licenese i failed to purchase back several years ago. I love the new equipment now days. The only thing i really miss is the deer camps and hanging around the fires like we used to do shooting the Bull.
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Tree stands! Also, I like being able to use a compound bow. When I started bowhunting in Pa back in the early'70s, compounds were not leagal to hunt with. Am I getting old?:D
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