Real Hunters?

[P7M13]

Real Hunter = wait in a tree until boar passes beneath you. Jump on its back and slit its throat, or stalking bear with just a bowie knife. Cervidae and other ungulates? Those are for sissys.

 

[Rich Coyle]

Martin@Hin,

What have you been smokin"?

 

[500000KV]

 

[BrentM]

Well I bow hunt public land on a general season tag so......

Yeah but did you get anything? ...

 

[mercerbear]

How many of us are really hunters?
With that statement I like to define a true hunter but also no disrespect to the one's that fall out of this category.
A hunter in my opinion is a person that kills to have hunted.
Hunting means one knows everything about his quarry.
Knows its habits, paterns,where it lives and travels.
The hunter than plans and sets up a rendezvous and than hopefully if he is a competent marksman finishes the hunt.

So again no disrespect for people with a limited time frame,disabilities,traveling to far of locations etc.
These people must rely on outfiters and guides to do to a great extent the hunting for them and they become the shooters.

People hunting the fringes of parks,roadhunters ( with the exception of antelope ) game reserves and sanctuaries also don't qualify.
And neither do drones, heat seekers, fish finders. lol

So how many of us are really a full fledged hunters?
Just wondering.
Martin

I appreciate you clarifying what it means to be a "real" hunter for the forum.

 

[jakeSCH]

you are not a real hunter unless you are only taking game with a hand made knife made out of stone wearing only a loincloth.

 

[Kelljp]

Television shows in the 80s and now YouTube (social media) made the killing the focal point for pursuing game. In this spreadsheet, percentage driving society it's easy for one to take the wrong path for bragging rights. I don't know how you glamorize the hours many of us spend watching tree bark grow.

 

[dbevins49]

How many of us are really hunters?
With that statement I like to define a true hunter but also no disrespect to the one's that fall out of this category.
A hunter in my opinion is a person that kills to have hunted.
Hunting means one knows everything about his quarry.
Knows its habits, paterns,where it lives and travels.
The hunter than plans and sets up a rendezvous and than hopefully if he is a competent marksman finishes the hunt.

So again no disrespect for people with a limited time frame,disabilities,traveling to far of locations etc.
These people must rely on outfiters and guides to do to a great extent the hunting for them and they become the shooters.

People hunting the fringes of parks,roadhunters ( with the exception of antelope ) game reserves and sanctuaries also don't qualify.
And neither do drones, heat seekers, fish finders. lol

So how many of us are really a full fledged hunters?
Just wondering.
Martin

So true, im an old man and dont rely on all the modern so called hunting equipment , use straight bow or recurve instinct shooting, open site rifles or normal 3 to 10 power, a 10 power you can shoot 500 yards all day long, and if you cant get closer let it walk on by, when all the modern day tech fails you you cant or dont know how to be a hunter,

 

[StanleyActual]

How many of us are really hunters?
With that statement I like to define a true hunter but also no disrespect to the one's that fall out of this category.
A hunter in my opinion is a person that kills to have hunted.
Hunting means one knows everything about his quarry.
Knows its habits, paterns,where it lives and travels.
The hunter than plans and sets up a rendezvous and than hopefully if he is a competent marksman finishes the hunt.

So again no disrespect for people with a limited time frame,disabilities,traveling to far of locations etc.
These people must rely on outfiters and guides to do to a great extent the hunting for them and they become the shooters.

People hunting the fringes of parks,roadhunters ( with the exception of antelope ) game reserves and sanctuaries also don't qualify.
And neither do drones, heat seekers, fish finders. lol

So how many of us are really a full fledged hunters?
Just wondering.
Martin

 

[Shadow292]

Well I bow hunt public land on a general season tag so......

I do not snub rifle hunters I just own guns for other reasons.

 

[dbevins49]

Yeah but did you get anything? ...

i been getting game 50 years hunted the south , out west , meat and have taken a few trophy's

 

[RCMSTER]

One day, several years ago, I had just got back to my truck after a helluva long hike during late muzzleloader season. I noticed a truck driving along the waterways through a field, and I thought to myself, "what a *** hunter", driving through the fields. Pretty soon, the truck pulls out of the field, onto the road and heads my way. Didn't want to talk to whoever it was at all, however....So the guy stops and strikes up a conversation with me. Come to find out, this guy was 85 years old. His wife had passed, and his kids had moved away, and weren't hunters anyway, and he's out trying to get a deer. After a while, he said he was headed back home, and so after he left, I thought, I want to be just like him when I grow up." To be 85, and still have the desire and ability to go out and deer hunt? Wow! My only regret was not asking him to jump in my truck, and I would take him to one of my stands, and I'd drive a deer to him. To me, that guy was a real hunter. I'll never forget the chance encounter I had with him.

 

[hpmag308]

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McTapper couldn't help myself

 

[BrentM]

i been getting game 50 years hunted the south , out west , meat and have taken a few trophy's

It was a joke man. OP made the statement of being able to take game blah blah blah. I hunt with a bow mainly and its all spot and stalk. I doubt that quals as real hunter in his mind tho.