TV KILLS
02-14-2005 | 12:07 PM
#31
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: mississippi by way of Florida
RE: TV KILLS
Elk,
You are right, I guess I don't get it.
You are comparing elk to white tails, no comparison. You are comparing a great northern state to the south, and hunting for white tails. You also are judging methods of hunting and trying to take a position that one type, stalking and walking, is more "valid" than other types, (dogs, shoothouses, etc).
You could walk for 3 miles where I live with your kid (with deer populations of more than 37 per square mile, where we are is much higher) and never hear or see a deer. It is much too thick and white tails much to wary. With over 1.6 million deer in Miss (same for La and Al) there is no shortage and many areas are actually getting overpopulated.
So, as far as numbers go, it is nothing unusual at all for an avid hunter in La, Miss, Ala and Fl to shoot 5 or 6 deer a year. Maybe more with all the different seasons we have.
BTW, how do you know that the kid doesn't know how to hunt? That he only knows how to shoot out of a shoot house? Problem is with these shows is that kind of hunt could never really be done when stalking, not for white tails anyhow.
That is the problem with TV, you only see what you see and have to assume the rest.
As far as I am concerned, what difference does it make if I or anyone else bowhunts? Are you going to take the position that bowhunting is somehow better, or that bowhunting is somehow more legitimate? Again, judging others by your viewpoint. Hunting is hunting, everyone comes to it with different abilities and desires.
By the way, yes I do bow hunt; two of the deer I killed this year were with a bow, ALL the rest (other than my kids) were with black powder.
Also, why is it important how many days people hunt. Again, your and my standards are not what many people may be able to achieve. Over our 4 month deer seasons (bow, rifle, black powder) I hunted, on average, more than 5 days a week. Some were just a couple of hours in the evening some morning and evening hunts. My point though is that some people don't have this luxury, they have to hunt when they can. And, to make up for the inability to be in the woods every day like you and I, they make up the shortcoming by using technology and money. Who are we to say that they are any less of a hunter than you or I?
I never said you didn't spend enuff time in the woods with you kids,
I meant that your time would be better spent in the woods than complaining about someone else's methods of hunting.
There is always going to be people with more means and less time than you and I, we need to all be pulling to protect hunting/gun rights rather than creating strife within our ranks.
Hank
You are right, I guess I don't get it.
You are comparing elk to white tails, no comparison. You are comparing a great northern state to the south, and hunting for white tails. You also are judging methods of hunting and trying to take a position that one type, stalking and walking, is more "valid" than other types, (dogs, shoothouses, etc).
You could walk for 3 miles where I live with your kid (with deer populations of more than 37 per square mile, where we are is much higher) and never hear or see a deer. It is much too thick and white tails much to wary. With over 1.6 million deer in Miss (same for La and Al) there is no shortage and many areas are actually getting overpopulated.
So, as far as numbers go, it is nothing unusual at all for an avid hunter in La, Miss, Ala and Fl to shoot 5 or 6 deer a year. Maybe more with all the different seasons we have.
BTW, how do you know that the kid doesn't know how to hunt? That he only knows how to shoot out of a shoot house? Problem is with these shows is that kind of hunt could never really be done when stalking, not for white tails anyhow.
That is the problem with TV, you only see what you see and have to assume the rest.
As far as I am concerned, what difference does it make if I or anyone else bowhunts? Are you going to take the position that bowhunting is somehow better, or that bowhunting is somehow more legitimate? Again, judging others by your viewpoint. Hunting is hunting, everyone comes to it with different abilities and desires.
By the way, yes I do bow hunt; two of the deer I killed this year were with a bow, ALL the rest (other than my kids) were with black powder.
Also, why is it important how many days people hunt. Again, your and my standards are not what many people may be able to achieve. Over our 4 month deer seasons (bow, rifle, black powder) I hunted, on average, more than 5 days a week. Some were just a couple of hours in the evening some morning and evening hunts. My point though is that some people don't have this luxury, they have to hunt when they can. And, to make up for the inability to be in the woods every day like you and I, they make up the shortcoming by using technology and money. Who are we to say that they are any less of a hunter than you or I?
I never said you didn't spend enuff time in the woods with you kids,
I meant that your time would be better spent in the woods than complaining about someone else's methods of hunting.
There is always going to be people with more means and less time than you and I, we need to all be pulling to protect hunting/gun rights rather than creating strife within our ranks.
Hank
