The Blue Collar Bowhunter !
 

MEN,
How many of you actually work for a living and BOWHUNT for a hobby and WONDER if the guys we idolize could do what they do if they lived on the income we doAND THE WORK SCHEDULE we do? Yep!!! NONE of them! The Wensels ? LOL, Could you imagine them two fat guys actually working ?? lol !!NOPE !! andTHEN GOING HUNTING AFTER WORK a sweatty back breaking day of workFOR THEM WORLD CLASS WHITETAILS ?? LOL !! Hell ya gotta have money to live where they live and lease 10,000 Iowa acres likethey do ,Heck if they actually had to work you wouldn,t have ever heard a wordaboutthem andYou and I know it ! Traditional Bowhunting has been YUPPIED ! AS well as all bowhunting period. Iam a BLUE COLLAR BOWHUNTER how about YOU !???
TJ

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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

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Best thing about hunting for me is that it doesn't matter what you do for a living. All ofthe shirts I hunt in are pullovers without collars.

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MEN,
Don,t mis-understand my thread, I don,t idolize anyone, and have met GeneWensel several times andI think hes a greatdown to earth personhave nothing against either him or his brother Barry or anyof those guys on thier level. I was making a point That most of our magazines we read are filled with stories aboutDoctors ,lawyers, wealthy buisnessmen, and thier trips around the world on hunting trips that cost a sanitary worker a years wages soHow many of them are factory workers, welders, the garbage man??? You know guys who get dirty everyday of thier lives ? maybe I should have said dirty collar LOL. But when was the last time you read a story in TBM,PBS, ECT, About Joe Dirt and his $500.00 hunt in the next state to hunt a whitetailed deer that he saved a year or two to do ? It,s always about Joe wealthy guy and his $12,000.00 hunt to africa or his $8,000.00 hunt to alaska ect ect, And buy the way Iam not saying doctors or lawyers and such don,t work hard , but how many of them had wealthy parents or grand parents thatgave them everything ? No wadda mean Vern ? lol
Tj

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Have you read an issue of TBM lately?That mag is filled with stories from everyday,working-class people who are just doing what they love to do.If they come from wealthy backgrounds-so what.That has no bearing on their love of the sport.They're just more fortunate to be able to do some things easier than alot of other people.A buddy of mine is going to Africa this summer after saving and sacrificing for 2 yrs-and he's a lawyer.
The Wensel's have been at this for years and years and deserve everything they have-they worked for it,and they worked hard for it.To insinuate that they're basically lazy and have had everything handed to them is just plain wrong.Sounds like a major jealousy issue.JMO,men

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JIM,
You should go back and re-read my post,s ! I never said anyone was lazy ! or not worthy of thier income! specially the Wensels whom I have nothing but respectand admiration forand has given so much to this sport !TBM ? Ivebeen reading and suscribing as a loyal member I might add for 15 years andnever missing an issue and there really isn,t to many guys from the "BLUE COLLARBELT" writing stories And getting them published in TBM,Jealously ? Hardly ? envious emm ,,,,,,,,,,,You Bet ! Ya SeeJim my Ole man worked in a steel mill for 46 years and died of cancer two years after retirement never getting to go on one of them STORY BOOK HUNTS we all read about cause he had 4 kids to raiseand my mother is a retired registered nurse of 42 years and still alive and well at the age of 77 "BLUE COLLAR" Jim,Iam not blasting anyoneI would just like to hear from some real Blue collar type fellas every now and then about thier hunting excursions,
Tj

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"LOL, Could you imagine them two fat guys actually working ?? lol !!NOPE !! " You're quote-not mine

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JIM,
LOL !!!! and more LOL !! Yep !
Tj

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I don't hear about too many "blue collar guy" hunts in the magazines. That is why I come here to huntingnet. I hear about all kinds of low budget hunts on this site. Guys like me telling guys like me how the hunt went. And not only that but sharing hunts and tips and a joke or two. I would love to be able to go on some of the hunts I see on the idiot box. Reality is, it ain't gonna happen. This coming April I'm going on what for me is a rare out of state hunt, turkeys in Tenn.I've got a $500 budget and its going to be tight making it happen. I'm an electrician with a wife and daughter and a mortgage too. It doesn't get more down to earth blue collar than that. I may envy the Wensels and other celeb hunters a bit but would I swap places with them? NEVER. I love my life just as it is.

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I guess I don't understand what one has to do with another. Other than kinda patting yourself heavily on the back.

I do whitecollar work. And not ashamed at all of it. If people are jealous, they have no one to blame but themselves, when they cut up all the time in class, and spent all thier time playing games.

I am just amazed about doctors, they go thru grueling 12 years minimum schooling, and are dead broke doing it. They deserve all our respect. I know I couldn't go thru thier program. They dont' even start making money until they are in thier 30's. Thats insane. They want to enjoy a hunt, I say go for it.

And when people actually see how many hours I work on salary, (usually low 60's) I usually hear them say, they wouldn't do it. They say they would rather spend time withtheir family and work 8 hours a day. Actually most white collar hunters I know, dont' get to hunt near as much as blue collar hunters, because most blue collar hunters seem to get off more days, and easier, and very specified shifts they are can work around, unless they are self employed.

Fall is the busiest time for us, as its end of physical quarter, and then Europe does most of its lab work. This sucks for hunting.

Most of the people I see on those 10,000 hunts are self employed business owners and for some odd reason most these days I meet are home contractors. Kinda middle of the road blue/white collar since the housing boom.

Now, lawyers on the other hand are well lawyers, and don't deserve much. [:'(]

I feel kinda lucky as I understand both sides. I was the first from my family to ever graduate college. Almost all my family are coal miners, and so was I going thru college. Only reason I went to college was scholarship aid, and a hefty 20%unemployment in Eastern Ky in the late 80%. I came from both sides of the tracks, and neither side totally understands the other unless they have done it.

I don't know stealth, It sounds like a big hefty dose of jealousy on your part.