Honestly you crack me up. I could care less about antlers or antler size. All I care about is having fun hunting and if I can put a little meat in the freezer all the better. You think a coyote or wolf passes on a deer because it hasn't reached maturity? Only pretentious individuals who feel they have something to prove are concerned about how big a set of antlers they can collect.
But since you are a Master answer me this. How would you know if that big healthy mulie I saw had CWD? Oh I know, because some guy like me saw it and had it in range. You post alot of pictures of non-shooters in your mind. Where are the pics of your cultivated-managed shooters? Could you possibly even "manage" to see one never mind shoot one?
Another question, I never responded to your thread earlier this fall asking for donations of duck and goose meat. Where did that thread get to? I am sure many here would love to see how a "Master Hunter" has to advertise on a hunting forum for donations of meat! However if you are hungry and it's not just to stoke your freezer for a picture to show the masses how you can add accomplished warerfowler to your "Master" title I would be happy to donate you some goose breast, goose sausage, jerky etc to help feed you. I'd throw in some venison but I have only a little left as I tend to shoot younger immature deer as I prefer tender to tough and notched tags as opposed to tag soup.![]()
How many empty vodka bottles and mouse eaten moose scapulas so I have to buy to hunt on your land?
Finally someone who cares about the poor snow geese, they are clearly having a hard time keeping the population levels up with all the hunters and migration
It's the snow goose down and feathers I want. I need the whole bird. Obviously I will not waste the meat but I make sets of bedding with the birds. The down is separated from the feathers to make the pillows and the feathers make the duvet. I have duck and Canada goose bedding already but am after the best possible down and feathers next to eider down and that's snow goose. I need approximately 200 birds to do one set. Most guys just like shooting snows for sport not sustenence. I was hoping an outfitter would respond and gift his birds to me as the clients are unlikely to want them. I have no interest in killing the birds myself. They have a hard enough time making it through all the migrations and hunters, and I don't particularly care for the taste of it. Spring birds have better down anyways. Less pin feathers.
Regarding shooting deer, having fun to me is watching those young deer that everyone else seems to kill, grow into real trophies in year five and six. And providing a few hundred acres of private land where they can get that old is a small price to pay.
Instead of getting mad at guys like me you should be calling your member of parliamemt asking why Chinese Shell corporations, Developers and Pension Funds are allowed to buy Canadian farmland and run up the prices beyond what many Canadians can afford. You could be actively looking for some cheap recreation land while you still can so you can help our cause and improve the habitat for wildlife through land conservation.
And why aren't you commenting about outfitters? They don't even own the land in their "territories" but can sell the rights to hunt wild animals on public and private land as "quotas" for $3500-$10,000 USD per animal, maybe more, depending on species. And they also charge $300-$400 USD per day just for an observer or guest to come on a hunt. I'm offering to take someone on an "outfitter style" hunt for free.
But instead of praising guys like me you want to call me out and insult me. How are we going to beat the Liberals, keep wildlife alive and plentiful, and our sport secure from those that would take away those rights when you focus your energy on arguing with me? And you're not the only one. There are a lot of guys that "want the milk for free" but don't want to "buy the cow" to get it.
How long do you think the provinces can keep "No limit" on snow geese going for before numbers drop off like the cod fishery on the East coast? The morons in wildlife departments who set the bag limits and quotas don't know sweet jack all about wildlife management. They barely leave the office. They certainly aren't experts in their craft. I give them some credibility though because they do have a degree in biology so I guess that makes them more qualified for the position than me.
We've been in a drought in Saskatchewan now for years. It's only now starting to be obvious as farmers crops are starting to fail. Last year saw many hurting prairie farmers. When I was headed to my property I passed through 40 miles straight of dried sloughs and potholes and failed wheat and canola crops. You think that doesn't have an impact on waterfowl populations? Where do you think ducks and geese nest and roost during their migrations? In golf courses? (Yes, I know the far North is responsible for many geese nurseries.) This also affects fur bearing mammals like beaver and muskrat. Beaver are a keystone species that creates habitat for moose. You know, that lanky donkey looking animal that most guys wait for years to draw a tag on just so they can shoot a baby or it's mother because they actually have no idea what a mature one looks like cause they can't figure out how to actually hunt and be selective enough to hold out for a 50" bull, which is acually just an average size moose if you let it grow up.
And the $20 bucks here and there for a scapula or some custom cut glasses is chump change. I just donate that money and hundreds more to the Conservative Party of Canada, the Wildlife Federation and the various Pro Gun Organisations that have court cases going on right now to protect "Our Right" to own firearms in this country. And I wish I could do more.
How much money have you donated to those organizations? What have you done for our sport and way of life? And if you're not going to give a straight answer then you should donate about $500 every year for starters. If you already donate or volunteer then great. Thank you. And if you want to hunt my land, I suggest you buy you're own. We can be neighbours. There's a few hundred acres for sale of prime wildlife land across the road for $1640 per acre.
Spank how did you manage to win all them fancy trophies and learn so much about waterfowling? Google and Amazon?
It took me many years to learn what I know and I'm excellent at what I do. That makes me a master. If someone was a "master smithe" knifemaker and advertised their knives or a knifemaking course as such would you get triggered? If you put your kid in an ice hockey training camp run by "elite athletes" or "professional ice hockey players" are they grandstanding? If you have a PhD in something they call you doctor...do you have a problem with that too?
Way to go guys, you just had to get him going. Here we go again....
Does your immense and swollen ego interfere with operation of your keyboard? Perhaps obscuring your view of it, or preventing your arms from being lowered far enough to type?
Master Smiths are granted that title by the American Bladesmith Society; it's a level of recognition that is decided and agreed upon by the finest smiths to recognize and honour peers who have demonstrated exemplary skill.
Professional Ice Hockey Players are just that: professional athletes, who have been selected by and who earn large sums of money from professional teams...because they have demonstrated outstanding levels of skill and ability, and thus make their teams successful and profitable.
PhD's have been educated to the highest levels of their chosen fields, having spent vast sums of money and time paying for that education. The degree is earned by showing a mastery of that field, and again, is bestowed by acknowledged universities that have reputations at stake. No dummies in that group.
And then...there's you. You are excellent at what you do; we know that's so because...well...because you say so. And that makes you a "master"...because you say so.
Which of these things is different than the others?
Does your immense and swollen ego interfere with operation of your keyboard? Perhaps obscuring your view of it, or preventing your arms from being lowered far enough to type?
Master Smiths are granted that title by the American Bladesmith Society; it's a level of recognition that is decided and agreed upon by the finest smiths to recognize and honour peers who have demonstrated exemplary skill.
Professional Ice Hockey Players are just that: professional athletes, who have been selected by and who earn large sums of money from professional teams...because they have demonstrated outstanding levels of skill and ability, and thus make their teams successful and profitable.
PhD's have been educated to the highest levels of their chosen fields, having spent vast sums of money and time paying for that education. The degree is earned by showing a mastery of that field, and again, is bestowed by acknowledged universities that have reputations at stake. No dummies in that group.
And then...there's you. You are excellent at what you do; we know that's so because...well...because you say so. And that makes you a "master"...because you say so.
Which of these things is different than the others?
It's the snow goose down and feathers I want. I need the whole bird. Obviously I will not waste the meat but I make sets of bedding with the birds. The down is separated from the feathers to make the pillows and the feathers make the duvet. I have duck and Canada goose bedding already but am after the best possible down and feathers next to eider down and that's snow goose. I need approximately 200 birds to do one set. Most guys just like shooting snows for sport not sustenence. I was hoping an outfitter would respond and gift his birds to me as the clients are unlikely to want them. I have no interest in killing the birds myself. They have a hard enough time making it through all the migrations and hunters, and I don't particularly care for the taste of it. Spring birds have better down anyways. Less pin feathers.
Regarding shooting deer, having fun to me is watching those young deer that everyone else seems to kill, grow into real trophies in year five and six. And providing a few hundred acres of private land where they can get that old is a small price to pay.
Instead of getting mad at guys like me you should be calling your member of parliamemt asking why Chinese Shell corporations, Developers and Pension Funds are allowed to buy Canadian farmland and run up the prices beyond what many Canadians can afford. You could be actively looking for some cheap recreation land while you still can so you can help our cause and improve the habitat for wildlife through land conservation.
And why aren't you commenting about outfitters? They don't even own the land in their "territories" but can sell the rights to hunt wild animals on public and private land as "quotas" for $3500-$10,000 USD per animal, maybe more, depending on species. And they also charge $300-$400 USD per day just for an observer or guest to come on a hunt. I'm offering to take someone on an "outfitter style" hunt for free.
But instead of praising guys like me you want to call me out and insult me. How are we going to beat the Liberals, keep wildlife alive and plentiful, and our sport secure from those that would take away those rights when you focus your energy on arguing with me? And you're not the only one. There are a lot of guys that "want the milk for free" but don't want to "buy the cow" to get it.