Could've arrowed him but.....
11-03-2009, 08:45 AM
#51
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,473
But not everyone is like that. Some of us fill the freezer so we don't have to buy beef and can use that money for other things we enjoy. It's also healthier and more beneficial without all the crap they use to make cows bigger to slaughter and sell faster.
I'm with you on the "buying in" to everything. I can't pass one up because it may be the "one" that brings the deer in. Can't argue with you there.
To you it isn't. But, not everyone feels the same way about the hunt. Honestly, I climb a tree in my climber sometimes and sleep more than I'm awake. I may miss some deer, I may not. But, when opportunity knocks I'm nocking an arrow or pulling a trigger. Not everyone "hunts" the same. To me, doghunting isn't sporting or ethical...and you can't convince me that all the adrenaline does venison any good. Even so, I'm not going to beat down those who doghunt the right way because that's their choice. Passing judgement on the legal choices of others isn't right and shouldn't be done. You "hunt" your way for your reasons, just as others do. That doesn't make their way wrong or right, just a different way.
I'm with you on the "buying in" to everything. I can't pass one up because it may be the "one" that brings the deer in. Can't argue with you there.
To you it isn't. But, not everyone feels the same way about the hunt. Honestly, I climb a tree in my climber sometimes and sleep more than I'm awake. I may miss some deer, I may not. But, when opportunity knocks I'm nocking an arrow or pulling a trigger. Not everyone "hunts" the same. To me, doghunting isn't sporting or ethical...and you can't convince me that all the adrenaline does venison any good. Even so, I'm not going to beat down those who doghunt the right way because that's their choice. Passing judgement on the legal choices of others isn't right and shouldn't be done. You "hunt" your way for your reasons, just as others do. That doesn't make their way wrong or right, just a different way.
11-03-2009, 09:13 AM
#53
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Lone Grove, Oklahoma
Posts: 11
I'll break out the high horse next time so some of you guys can climb on board.
11-03-2009, 09:45 AM
#55
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,462
Man I dont have the woods to hunt nor the money like most of yall tards. Well some of yall. I live in the back woods but near the city and hunt my back woods everyday morning and night, If I saw that bas%@*$ Sitting down I dont give a crap where he was he's going down. And I dont think ANY of yall guys cant HONESTLY say if that 150 class+ Buck was layed down under your stand or 60 yrdsaways. you wouldnt shoot him? COME ON!!!?
I live very close to downtown Chicago but have recently gotten a spot on one acre that is legal to hunt. It is a family friends backyard. They have about a 1/2 acre of woods that backs up to a creek then a massive tollway 40 ft wall. It is hunting, I can't see there house or any other and Im 20 feet in the air. I could sit on there back porch and shoot a deer, but I like the sport of it, so Im back in the woods trying to get a deer off a game trail. Im not seeing as much, but when I do get a deer there, it will be well worth it.
11-03-2009, 10:19 AM
#57
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Lone Grove, Oklahoma
Posts: 11
Hey...... If I don't get on my high horse every now and then.... I won't remember where it is when I really need it. 
My point is what gives any one person the right to judge how another person hunts? Just because it's different doesn't mean eithr way is right or wrong. As long as it's legal then there's nothing anyone can do about it anyway, right? Heck I've seen pictures of deer on the Braggin Board that I would never even THINK about taking, but it's not my place to jump on the forum and tell them how they shouldn't take a deer like that.
I applaude Uncle Matt for not taking the deer. I don't think it's right to take a bedding deer that's not afraid of people. Kind of like pot shooting quail. (Which is illegal here)
Just my opinion though. If anyone think I'm wrong, or just plain dumb, for not bashing them over it.... then that's fine by me. It is just a forum after all.
My point is what gives any one person the right to judge how another person hunts? Just because it's different doesn't mean eithr way is right or wrong. As long as it's legal then there's nothing anyone can do about it anyway, right? Heck I've seen pictures of deer on the Braggin Board that I would never even THINK about taking, but it's not my place to jump on the forum and tell them how they shouldn't take a deer like that.
I applaude Uncle Matt for not taking the deer. I don't think it's right to take a bedding deer that's not afraid of people. Kind of like pot shooting quail. (Which is illegal here)
Just my opinion though. If anyone think I'm wrong, or just plain dumb, for not bashing them over it.... then that's fine by me. It is just a forum after all.
11-03-2009, 10:41 AM
#58
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Interior AK
Posts: 85
There's absolutely no better way to practice shooting deer than by shooting deer.
IMO when opportunity knocks, by all means open the door. The best point I can make is that we all hunt for different reasons and we all shoot or don't shoot for different reasons. Me, I like to shoot deer, and then I eat them. It doesn't matter where they are as long as they're mature and legal.
The thing I applaud in this instance is that the OP stood up for his principles and his intrinsic ethics to make a decision. He may not see a buck that nice for the rest of the season, or maybe even the rest of his life, but he made a tough ethical decision and stuck with it.
IMO when opportunity knocks, by all means open the door. The best point I can make is that we all hunt for different reasons and we all shoot or don't shoot for different reasons. Me, I like to shoot deer, and then I eat them. It doesn't matter where they are as long as they're mature and legal.
The thing I applaud in this instance is that the OP stood up for his principles and his intrinsic ethics to make a decision. He may not see a buck that nice for the rest of the season, or maybe even the rest of his life, but he made a tough ethical decision and stuck with it.
11-03-2009, 02:31 PM
#60
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Almost Heaven,WV
Posts: 4,087
LOL..It's just another freeking buck in rut. The thing about the dumb ones is they taste just like the smart ones....lol. So whether you choose to shoot or not to shoot is an individual's choice to make and in this case the buck lives another day. Nice pic by the way.