I dont know maybe im wrong for thinking this buttttttt!!!!!!
It really te's me off when i watch a hunting program where they shoot bucks out of a closed in tree house watching over a field full of yumies that deer love. If i had to hunt like that i would quit, come on is that hunting. At least get up a tree stand and give em a chance. what do you think. Maybe im just venting until bowseason gets here, but give me a break do you really call that hunting????????/

Hunting with a bow brings about a different challenge on every hunt!!!

wilk it depends. If it was my place and I had done all the scouting and built the tree house, to me that would be hunting, but if I was just some guy with a pocket full of money and paid to have it all done for me but releasing the arrow, I would consider it harvesting!

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

Hunting is different things to different people, this topic has been discussed at lenth here. I personally wouldn't get much of a kick out of it, but hunting is for recreation, not competition, so whatever makes a man happy come the fall. As long as it's legal, a free ranging herd, you are considerate of other hunters, as well as nonhunters, and respect the game, nothing to be ashamed of. I do agree these producers are very pitiful, filling an entire program, sometimes an entire season, shooting bucks out of a box blind, on a huge ranch managed for trophy bucks. How boring is that to watch? How about some more stalking, calling, ect? That's excitement. Not the XYZ ranch, again, and again, and again...


"In heaven, even the fish have antlers"

No fence hunting here. If I can't take a deer on my own, I won't take one.

I personally would not choice to hunt that way but reserve judgment for people who do. Some people do not have the time to put in the hours of scouting that it takes to shoot a nice deer. Those that can't pay someone who can. Also disabled hunters may have little choice in the matter.

I guess I have no real problem with people hunting out of those houses. But I do have a problem with all these shows and tapes showing every other hunt out of a box. It looks bad for hunters and if I am watching one of these hunts with a "still on the fence" non-hunter I am embarassed by it. Some of these houses have a stove, couch, anderson windows ansd a TV.

"Oh-no, If he moves any more to the left I am gonna have to get up and open the other window. These damn lifetime shows, I gotta wait for a comercial, this may get tricky"

I do have a great idea for all these shows that will save them alot of time, gas money, and wear and tear on there truck. I would plant the food plots right outside the main lodge, with all rooms over looking them. Have a motion detector hooked up to a buzzer in each room, so as your watching Sally Jesie and hear the buzzer you can sneak up to your window and bag your trophy.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
This would save the hunters from that grueling pickup ride to the stairs of the blind, and dragging would be a breeze.

Ofcourse this wouldn't work with bowhunters, they would pay extra for a sliding glass door.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

amen to that rack-attack

Hunting with a bow brings about a different challenge on every hunt!!!

Wilk: It's not my hunting either. I don't even like to sit on a field. I'm a forest dweller.

RackAttack just about summed it up. It's just celebrity sweepstakes to me. I know I'm in a minority here, but I don't like all the KIDS hunts on TV for the same reason. They're always in a box. I found this great place the other day right in a thicket. It's a guaranteed spot. I killed a nice buck 30 yards away last year. I told Len he could have any place he wanted since he is having an operation 5 days after the season opens. I showed him the spot and we decided his kid should have it. So opening day the 11 year old will be dangling on a limb with his full body fall restraint system, his bow and hopes and we're rooting for him. We'll be within 100 yards or so with the walkie talkies on. He's hunted with us and sat in his own tree. He's cool and can sit still. Now that's a kids hunt. Not in a luxury trailer. Last year he got his first deer from his own Buckshot climber(shotgun) This year we're trying to get him one with a bow.

What gets me about those type of hunts is that the shooter acts like they are all pumped up with excitement. I don't see the excitement there. If I had that kind of money to spend on hunting trips I would go to a place that I was in a tree stand in the woods calling and rattling. Thats where is excitement is!!!!

parker 1 hunting trip ? i will just say thats just a shooting trip. as to having have someone scout for you because you don't have time setting stands up for you well then you just become a shooter your not hunting. i never had a guild or will have one. to me scouting is hunting looking for game pulling the trigger or shooting the arrow are the end of the hunt.hunting to me is finding my own game finding the ambush point and if i fail well thats just hunting.i always liked it when someone ask me if i got a elk and i just spent two weeks out west and didn't come back with anything and they tell me i'm waisting my time because i came home with zero.i just tell them that i was hunting they really don't understand.handicap people should have scouting stand placment and other things taking care of for them they have no choice. this is how i see hunting this is just me i love hunting and what goes with it.i always ask people are you hunting or just shooting

you can use your pepper spray my 12 gauge with 3 inch slugs works fine