Too long at camp
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Well why even call it hunting then if the only expectation is to have fun in the bush with other dudes?
Put in effort, expect results. That's how life works.
Thanks for the life lesson, so I'll try to reciprocate: That's why it's called hunting, rather than killing.
If you understand, no explanation is necessary. If you don't, no explanation will suffice.
Thanks for the life lesson, so I'll try to reciprocate: That's why it's called hunting, rather than killing.
If you understand, no explanation is necessary. If you don't, no explanation will suffice.
You're welcome. Here's another one. A successful hunt involves killing, you can sugar coat it with softer terms like harvesting, yaddi yadda but your are factually ending an animal's life so you are indeed killing it.
An unsuccessful hunt is a mere hike, with no killing involved. So yes, I much prefer to go on a hike with the full goal and intention of (legally and ethically) ending an animal's life aka killing for the sole purpose of eating. I don't want a head on my wall, I don't want to share pics online, I don't want a rug made out of a hide.
You say go to the grocery store if all you want is meat? I say if I wanted to hang out with my bros and just chill and have a great time I can do that right here in town without dedicating time, money and planning to some outdoor endeavor that may or may not yield anything that I'll just write off as a "good time" if it doesn't.
Doesn't add up over here.
I hunted with a guy like you for a few years... I got tired of his whining... it was grand when we parted ways... I have a few good partners now, ones that appreciate the experience more than squeezing a trigger... but we also do more than our share of trigger squeezing and string dropping... we just don't let that define our enjoyment of the hunt.
I don't think most of us "hope for nothing", that is always a bonus. But I've had many great hunting trips without killing anything.
When I was younger the "killing part" was more important to me. Now a days not so much.
Hopefully you last long enough in the hunting game to mature to the point that you get the difference. But that way your coming across now I don't think you will make it that long, unless you hunt in a very productive area and manage frequent kills.
I get your perspective to a point, but sadly I don't think you "get" ours.
blasted_saber
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Some people are better off hunting alone and there's nothing wrong with that. Maybe someday if you start to kill you will have your fill of it and start to appreciate the other reasons the rest of us go out. My father in law shares your philosophy he figures if we don't kill anything it was an unsuccessful trip. Him and I don't hunt together much anymore.
leadpipemike and I spent a little too long at camp on a late season grouse hunt.
When we got back out to the lake it was frozen over. It made it interesting getting a canoe through an inch of ice.
Awesome OP!
Yes, the paddle came out a little worse for wear.
Ouch.
...I got into canoeing with a guy at the lake the past couple of years. Dude's got custom paddles and the rest of it. Not a hunter at all but wouldn't care about the condition of his equipment if we were having a good time being outdoors. He'd fit in great with the group I hunt with. But still...ouch.
Myself, I'm past that part of "having" to show something at the end of season although my wife don't like that much. At the end there is enough venison to support till the next year.
Regards
Ronr
Believe it or not, every time you go out you are successful. You will always learn something new about what you are hunting, as well yourself.
Gee for someone who has admitted to being brand new to it, you sure seem to have this hunting thing all figured out. At least in terms of how the rest of us should judge our own success or lack there of. Always better to come home with the game your chasing, but if I did so every time it would feel a lot like a sweaty trip to the supermarket.
For me, hunting in this day and age is about extracting oneself from the human world and re-immersing in the natural one. Once I figured that out I found every trip to be more "successful" than the last. A lot of people don't have it in them to figure that out though. Fine with me, more room in the woods for the rest of us. Personally I like to hunt alone and am always most "successful" that way. When people don't get hunting the last thing i wanna do is encourage them. If you don't see the point after a few tries then it is probably never going to be for you. No point trying to understand or to try and convince a bunch of hunting addicts that what they are doing dosn't make sense.
This discussion reminds me of a friend who was guiding some fishermen. The one guy kept asking him every time they caught a fish how much it was worth in the store and calculating whether they would come back with enough fish value to justify the expense of the guided trip Never even enjoyed the act of catching the fish let alone being out on the Ocean, just always busy calculating and measuring their "success". He kinda missed the point, and he certainly got no pleasure from the trip. I'm sure he thinks now that fishing is a waste of time and highly inefficient. More room on the water for the rest of us.
Cool story bro
