I would like to try hunting as a hobby?
01-20-2011, 01:47 PM
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY: NYC to Watertown
Posts: 897
Anyone catch this new hunting show on Travel Channel called "The Wild Within"? Found it while flipping channels and found it pretty good. I missed the first few minutes of it but I was really impressed with what i saw, it really portrays us hunters the way we should be portrayed. highly recommend it. really excited to see next week's episode -- the host goes on a wild boar hunt in hawaii - http://www.vimeo.com/18798879
The one iin alaska I really liked, guy quartered his deer in the field to pack it out,
He was also hunting for food, not a trophy,
Another episode took place out west, that one I didn't care for.
01-21-2011, 04:27 AM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Beaverton Michigan
Posts: 114
Beginning hunting as a hobby is really quite simple. Talk to locals, friends, or family who are hunters. Read some of the hundreds of hunting publications. Contact your local DNR. Find someone who is willing to let you tag along on a couple of their outings before you invest to much into it. If you enjoy it, then you are all set.
Uneducation is a terrible thing. Ben, it is us, as hunters, who fund the majority of the wildlife conservation efforts around the world. We are also the #1 population control for many species that, without hunters, would soon overpopulate and begin massive die offs from starvation and disease.
As a hunter, I feel it is safe to say, that all the hunters on this site truly love animals, because any wild game tastes great when you add enough garlic.
As a hunter, I feel it is safe to say, that all the hunters on this site truly love animals, because any wild game tastes great when you add enough garlic.
01-25-2011, 05:47 PM
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location:
Posts: 860
Anyone catch this new hunting show on Travel Channel called "The Wild Within"? Found it while flipping channels and found it pretty good. I missed the first few minutes of it but I was really impressed with what i saw, it really portrays us hunters the way we should be portrayed. highly recommend it. really excited to see next week's episode -- the host goes on a wild boar hunt in hawaii - http://www.vimeo.com/18798879
On the Big Island, I came across a few boars, one as high as my chest at the shoulder while bird hunting. Huge head, about 20" across. My young dog started sniffing and the pig was digging in the dirt. Luckily, in between was a bush so they couldnt see ea. other. This pig was only about 40' away and I only had a 20ga O/U with 7 1/2 shot. So, I shouted, it looked up and grunted once and fled.
10-07-2012, 06:09 PM
#15
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Maine
Posts: 12,564
Too bad Ben ~ the buying of hunting licenses, sports equipment, camping equipment and park fees (are many others) funds the many many widlife conservation programs to which benefits everydbody including you! Hunters are an important fact in the control of many wildlife populations and that is why game laws are published - so we as hunters have a sustainable populations.
And if you really loved everyone ~ you would try to understand rather than ridicule!
And if you really loved everyone ~ you would try to understand rather than ridicule!
10-08-2012, 05:55 AM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NEW ATHENS, IL, USA
Posts: 426
Am Ben, In my opinion, hunting is not a hobby, its firmly cruel activity.
I hate this type of activities. We have to like all creatures as we love each other.
Ben Donald
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I hate this type of activities. We have to like all creatures as we love each other.
Ben Donald
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