Electronic toys and the nature experience

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I was recently watching an otherwise decent hunting show, where two black bear hunters were in a tree stand. It was kind of neat and fitting that one hunter chose to use a 12 gauge slug for harvest as the shooting distances really fit this scenario. But one thing here, both of these hunters were busy playing on their game boys/itoys/whatever during one shooting segment. In the midst of their game, a really annoying magpie dared to show itself and noisily announce it's presence. Both of these super hunters had to look UP from the game screens! lol
So, here is a nationally syndicated hunting program and decades from now their grandchildren can see their grandpa playing Gameboy in the middle of totally awesome mother nature!?!?!? :rey2

I don't get it myself................
 
I admit it that I take my ipod touch to the stand and watch movies. Sometimes I just get bored. I know hunting is about being in nature and all that jazz, but as I said, sometimes I get bored. I have taken a deer while doing this. Has it cost me a deer? Quite possible but to the best of my knowledge it hasn't. I use ear buds and scan my immediate area every 20-30 seconds. This helps keep me in the stand where otherwise I would go for a little stroll and in my area we have much more success from the stand then still hunting.
 
I don;t get it either.... I spend countless time just enjoying nature and picturing a big buck walking out at any second..... lol.... I wait fo rit all year long and can use my Igadgetry any other time of year....
 
Why do you even care ? What a man does in his own time is his own business. Some guys sit in a stand for 10-12 hours a day every day over the course of weeks or months...gets boring at times I would think.

Plus this gives the advantage to game their after..I have no problems with that.
 
scott_r said:
Why do you even care ? What a man does in his own time is his own business. Some guys sit in a stand for 10-12 hours a day every day over the course of weeks or months...gets boring at times I would think.

Plus this gives the advantage to game their after..I have no problems with that.
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Eeerrrrrrrr........someone is really upset.

lol

I think I explained it pretty well in first post.
 
Sort of a generation gap here. My kids are attached to their various electronic toys. It is a combination of job necessity and habit. They certainly do not think the same as us old boomers. My daughter is a school teacher and they do not even try to teach the kids the same as thirty years ago. Most people do not even realise the pace they maintain in today's world just to try and keep up. Stepping into the bush for hunting or whatever is stepping off the treadmill for a time. Letting things slow down, catching our breath if you will. Before retirement hunting/fishing was my escape from the many pressures of raising kids, mortgage etc. Most of us do not need the meat to survive but prefer it that way. If some guy wants to play with his toys while hunting that is his choice. It takes away from what he is doing from my perspective. My perspective is, of course, based on an entirely different life experience than those born in the 80's for eg. I find them distracting, but that is just me.
 
scott_r said:
Plus this gives the advantage to game their after..I have no problems with that.
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I don't know about that, if some people don't have a distraction of some sort like a book or electronics they get so fidgety and make noise that they never see a damn thing.

Personally, I don't really have a problem with it. The problem, if any, isn't the electronic gadgetry but the attitude of the person. If you take the distraction away, they'll just sit there focused on their feet not taking in anything around them anyhow. I've seen it many times.
 
I am a self avowed "fudd" and always turn off my cell phone when hunting. I did miss a nice buck once because I became too enthralled in my book. Scan the surrounding bush and then turn the page, not the other way around!
 
I carry my phone to call for help, a GPS to navigate (with a good compass & map as backup), and that's it. Let's be honest; a mapping GPS is just a better and more convenient system than map & compass.

I have however thought about wearing my electronic earmuffs, as that one rifle shot really, really messes with my already damaged hearing, every time.

Shotguns don't seem to bother me though, which in conjunction with 20+ years of power tool use is probably why my hearing is damaged in the first place.
 
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Ardent said:
I hear you on hearing protection, seriously looking into my options, as if I fail a hearing test I lose my job. My left ear has taken a beating thanks to my .375 as well, need something small like plugs that I can still hear through, properly, that will get me to use gadgetry.
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I'm open to trying the Surefire Ear Defenders, but the bonus of earmuffs is that they're... earmuffs. Keep the ears a little toasty in the cold weather!

My left is a little worse than my right; apparently high-intensity gunshots in the dozens do more damage than years of screaming power saws. Who knew?
 
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