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RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
Tj - I just read his book recently ........ you said in another thread I should go to a rifle, what did you think of all the running shot Roger took ? What about the frontal shots he took? He missed often too, and wounded/lost deer. Even that biggest buck of his was a mis-hit, very luck to track it and finish it off like he did. Shoudl he be labeled unethical and banned from bowhunting to a rifle too ?
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RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
BUSTER,
NAH ! I was to quick on that one my friend ,Sorry, Seriously I just wanna talk equipment,! Because ability and equipment are universes apart JMHO Tj |
RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
do you know who Connie Renfro is ?
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RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
Buster,
yep ! Tj |
RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
shorter draw than me, lighter poundage bows for the most part, not as much KE I imagine ....... and she's a bowhunting machine
equipment does not a hunter make, though it can can certainly help |
RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
ORIGINAL: LBR The Wensel Brothers didn't have fame, or money, thrown into their laps. Both are college graduates, and worked as chiropractors--yes, WORKED. They didn't have their massive knowledge of whitetails and hunting thrown into their laps either. Both have been hunters since they were kids. They have guided hundreds of hunters, and helped countless more. Do they have premium land to hunt on? I'm sure they do--because theypay for it. They aren't raising deer in a fence, and hunt fair chase. I'm proud for anyone that can make a living, especially a good living, doing what they love. Those men worked hard for what they have. FWIW, I'm not friends with the Wensel brothers. I've met them a time or two, but they wouldn't know me from Adam's housecat. I don't idolize them (or anyone else), but I do respect them as hunters--just like I do Fred Bear, Ben Pearson, Howard Hill, etc. Good Lord willing, I'll live long enough to be fat and bald and spend my retirement years chasing whitetails. Chad Was it RealTree Outdoors that did the ProHunter Search? I cant remember, but the winners of it were regular guys. One was a retired US Airforce Fighter Pilot who was working as an Engineer of some kind, and his the other guy was his Dad. Besides who do you know of that has a silver spoon up their butt that says I want to sit in a tree stand and freeze my a$$ off for hours at a time and when I'm not doing that I want to be walking around the woods freezing my a$$ of instead. |
RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
Who cares where we work or who makes more money. We all have one thing incommon we love to hunt & have fellowship with other hunters. We are all blood brothers who find a kind of peace when we are in the woods, or sitting in the stand, that a non-hunter does not understand. We have felt the rush/body shaking feeling we get when we let that arrow fly and it makes contact with critter of our choice, there is no other feeling like it. I am one with my maker when I am hunting. Bigdaddy
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RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
bigdaddy7474 When I see Bill Jerden paying $10,000 for a piece of Milk River property, growing alfalfa and winter wheat for the deer, supplemental feeding, culling, "management" etc etc, and then seeing him shooting one with a compound at 35 yards ......... compare that to a guy who spends the time to craft a self bow, cane shafts, knaps his own arrows and kills a doe on public land
Which is the blue collar bowhunter ? Which uses money and technology to make sure he gets those antlers ? Which focuses on the hunt, not the kill ? The "easier" you make the hunting, be it equipment, guides, leases, etc etc etc, the less reward and sense of accomplisment. The more you work to earn something, the greater the satisfaction. I personally am going to hunt with a compoud this fall. My choice, for a variety of reasons. When I kill a buck with it, I will have a sense that I accomplished less because I used a compound. Still an accomplishment, I'll be proud of it for certain - just not AS proud, because of the circumstance. Maybe thats the the jest of this thread ....... |
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The "easier" you make the hunting, be it equipment, guides, leases, etc etc etc, the less reward and sense of accomplisment. The more you work to earn something, the greater the satisfaction. |
RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
BobCo19-65 I think its true, whether a person wants to acknowledge it or not.
There is a correlation between ammount of effort put into something and the ammount of satisfaction gained. Surely you taught your kids this ? Its the #1 reason rich spoiled kids dont appreciate anything - they didn't earn it. There was no effort put into gaining what they had, it was all given. A monster buck taken with a rifle on a high fenced pen is something to smile about I guess. The very same monster buck taken after 4 years of hunting him with a stick bow on heavily hunted public ground ? A whole 'nuther sense of accomplishment, the two can't even be compared though the antlers didn't change. See what I'm saying ? |
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