Real Hunters?

[redneckdan]

I hunt to fill the freezer, in the most efficient legal means available, so I can spend time doing other stuff. I enjoy hunting but don't seek to prolong the experience either. I'd rather go to the zoo and shoot Skippy The Ganzelle than spend a week glass animals looking for one with antlers 1/2" longer than all the rest...

Minnesota Meat Hunters Association- proudly shooting tomorrow's trophys....today...

 

[Earnhardt]

When Indians drove buffalo over a cliff to harvest them.Did that make them real hunters?

Yes, yes it does.

 

[RckyMtnRutt]

Has OP even responded yet or just started a shiitt storm for fun?

 

[jshepherd61]

Has OP even responded yet or just started a shiitt storm for fun?

My vote is the **** storm!!! Lol

 

[Martin@Hin]

I can't help but to ask what the original posters motivation was to ask this question. I'll reserve my comments out of respect for he/she until their response.

Just like I stated this is not a judgemental post and certainly not meaning to insult or disrespect anyone this one can see if one reads the post carefully before geting you dander up.
There are different ways to enjoy and fill your freezer and all the power to you.
I was just curious how many people still use the old-fashioned way of hunting.

Martin

 

[tony d willIiams]

Interesting statement, and observations of "what a real hunter is".
I myself, scout as much as possible. When I was a working, most of my time was being with my family as I was usually gone M~F, and only had a few days for scouting.
Now that I am retired, (forced into it), and disabled, I can spend more time scouting, trailing, and learning where our food will be when season comes around.
My beliefs, as they are, if a person goes out and attempts to gather food with his arrows or bullets, that is a hunter. The more they do, the better they get. After enough years of practice, they will know the animals they are hunting, and will have learned to blend in and notice the other tasty animals. The animal they want will just seem to wander into where they are hunting.

 

[Martin@Hin]

Has OP even responded yet or just started a shiitt storm for fun?

No I don't but I don't live for the internet.
Besides its hunting season

 

[Martin@Hin]

Maybe you should describe what it is.
That way we will know if we are.

Just read the post

 

[Martin@Hin]

I think the OP is walking a tightrope over Troll territory. I have been to Canada many times, and it is a 26 hour drive one way. We knock on doors and go Goose hunting, but if we want to hunt with a rifle we must hire a guide. That is the law. Does that make any of us less of a hunter? Not a lot of moose or caribou in these parts. Guess we could just leave them for just those that live in Alberta? I like to eat moose too, and contribute hansomely to the local economy when I travel. This is just another vain attempt to segregate us into groups. Not one of us should allow this to happen. It only serves to weaken us all politically. Doesn't matter what type of weapon you choose to hunt with, your quarry, or your LEGAL methods, stick together as brothers, and don't let anyone separate us.

Your missing the boat.just a question NOT a judgment,
Holy Moses by their aggressive reactions I get I might have to consider moving and up my life insurance G

 

[freddiej]

OKAY, I'll play..
Yes, I have lived the lifestyle you state. for more than a few years it was the only way I could put meat on the table and the modest gardens I grew some of my staple veggies. No, I was not off grid, I just had too many problems with store bought veggies and meat. BTW I also fished the local streams for trout, lakes for crappie, blue gill sunfish, large mouth bass, and northern pike. Looking back, I am convinced that those days I was the healthiest I ever was. BTW I refuse to shoot goats.. icky animals and they can not be good to eat. if they taste even remotely like the smell.. no thank you!

 

[Martin@Hin]

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,

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,

The tool used ti finish the hunt don't matter

 

[BrentM]

What difference does it make, that's why it's called hunting instead of killing

The comment wasn't directed at you in the first place and second it was a sarcastic joke against the OP.

 

[Martin@Hin]

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.

I rest my case

 

[rdsii64]

You just described big game hunting regulation in most western American states I have hunted. Oregon, Washington Cali Nevada Idaho Montana Colorado Wyoming Utah Arizona New Mexico…. So how is Australia "completely different" oh you have "hound crews" we don't allow that much at all other than cats or bears in some states and nowhere I know of for deer. Hounds are illegal for any hunt in oregon wa and Cali and very limited in the other states mentioned. I don't really know what goes down east of the Mississippi tho

In parts of the southeast, running deer with dogs is legal. Some like it, others not so much.