WOW... Am I disappointed in your attitude!
I have read your posts and seen your game pics. I have identified and appreciated your obvious love and passion for hunting and the outdoors... the arrogance of your posts here on baiting is VERY disappointing... it is not I who missed the point, Mr. Track. I am 47 years old... I have been hunting since I was four (first grouse with a Crosman MKI pistol)... when I was sixteen I took five deer in under five minutes (group hunt with appropriate tags) with a Winchester model 94 in .32 Special... after that hunt, I hung up my rifles and have been bowhunting ever since. I have taken dozens of deer, bear, and moose with archery equipment, I have never used a rifle on big game since then. Here is a quote of yours from above;
"I take pride in my hunting method and that is ground zero with
"only" a gun, ammo, bino's, knife, rope, sandwich, water and them hit the big bush, oh ya, my hunting licence."
So let me get this straight... the guy who spends weeks of his time and money and knowledge and insight into game movement and who manages the hunting scene and then successfully "ARROWS" a dandy bruin... "IS NOT" hunting? But the guy who saunters up to a meadow in his shorts and flip flops and shoots a bear at 300 yards with his high powered, scoped centerfire, "IS" hunting???
That my friend is pure "judgement" and "arrogance"... and it is why the sporting community continues to be divided and why the anti-hunting movement continues to make inroads in seeking further bans of our "hunting heritage" priveleges.
You have the nerve to make condescending comments about rangefinders regarding archery equipment use on game animals (where arrows drop in FEET over the span of 50-60 yards)... and yet you shoot rifles that have an MPBR of 300+ yards... where there is NO need for holdover on any biggame animal... a big game animal which I might add mostly likely never knows that you are around until he is pushing up the daisies... where 90% of the bow kills I have are under 20 yards and some measured in feet and inches... and also, most I might add, were taken using spot and stalk methods... except when I am calling in the animals using mouth blown calls, of course moose is using a hand made birch bark horn, which goes well with my hand woven wool... I like wool because it keeps me warm and dry, when I portage in my canoe miles and through numerous lakes to get into real wilderness for big bulls...
My point here is not at all to bash hunting with rifles... it is of course hunting. My son recently became interested in centerfires, and we have a number of them and are working up hand loads for various game species....
My point is that people that " wear shorts in glass houses" shouldn't throw stones.
Shame on you.
P.S - I have pics of bigger bears than that on my back... I even have a pic of one strapped to me like a passenger on the back of my dirt bike... from back when I was a teenager (I believe that was my first archery bear).
Granted I wasn't wearing shorts... but then I don't have your legs.
Hoyt.
10 pt. buck rattled in and taken on the ground @ 10 yards;
Bull moose, called in and taken at 15 FEET, while on my knees... arrow actually went UP through him;
Boar taken by calling in with a fawn in distress call... shot at 10 FEET;
Boar taken while hunting a bait that I located and worked for six weeks prior to hunting... backpacking the bait two miles in to a saddle in a ridge in a Farmer John rucksack (it took four of us on two poles to get him out... you might be tough Track, but you would not have put this one on your back!);
