Stand Hunting...
06-07-2007, 07:47 AM
#51
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 253
RE: Stand Hunting...
Day in the life of a lazy slob hunter. Get up at 4 A.M. Drive 20 or so miles to a public hunting area. There the lazy slob proceeds to carry a 20 lbs climbing treestand, bow and day pack up tp 2 miles into the timber. He then climbs a tree up to 30 feet in the air. Then the easy part. He has to sit for up to 12 hours in the same place awaiting a possible shot. Then if he's successful, he gets to carry all his equipment and a DEER back to the truck. Then drive back home. Let's see you do that everyday in OCT and NOV for 1 season then get back to me on the subject of lazy, slob hunting.
06-07-2007, 07:56 AM
#52
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Posts: 1,394
RE: Stand Hunting...
ORIGINAL: npaden
Since it seems that every week or so a form of hunting gets put on the chopping block as lazy, unethical or slob hunting I thought we could try to put hunting from a deer stand on the block this week.
It seems to me that this is a pretty lazy method of hunting. Instead of getting out and stalking the deer, you hang a stand up in a tree or sit in a little house up on stilts and wait for the deer to walk by. Often this is done using scents and calls to further entice the deer to walk by. The deer don't seem to have much of a chance, it is like shooting ducks off a pond. Just because it is the primary method that most people use to hunt deer doesn't make it right. [:@]
Most of the time they have someone drive them to their stand with an ATV or 4x4 and then after they shoot the deer they just drive up and throw it in the pickup or on the ATV and haul it back to the shed to even field dress it. Forget having to field dress a deer miles from the nearest road and quartering the deer up to be able to haul it out.
It seems to me that hunting from a stand isn't really hunting at all.
My 2 cents.
Since it seems that every week or so a form of hunting gets put on the chopping block as lazy, unethical or slob hunting I thought we could try to put hunting from a deer stand on the block this week.
It seems to me that this is a pretty lazy method of hunting. Instead of getting out and stalking the deer, you hang a stand up in a tree or sit in a little house up on stilts and wait for the deer to walk by. Often this is done using scents and calls to further entice the deer to walk by. The deer don't seem to have much of a chance, it is like shooting ducks off a pond. Just because it is the primary method that most people use to hunt deer doesn't make it right. [:@]
Most of the time they have someone drive them to their stand with an ATV or 4x4 and then after they shoot the deer they just drive up and throw it in the pickup or on the ATV and haul it back to the shed to even field dress it. Forget having to field dress a deer miles from the nearest road and quartering the deer up to be able to haul it out.
It seems to me that hunting from a stand isn't really hunting at all.
My 2 cents.
I do enjoy being on a stand, butI use them when the conditions won't allow me to be on the ground. It is also a nice break from long hunts/walks.
My favorite is to stalk, run them down or dogging (no dogs included) with a shot gun loaded up with slugs. You've really done something when you've been able to get up into thier beds and let them have it at close range, and I just love my 11-87!
KP
