What would make you quit hunting?

Like rifleman762 said, I think if you are bumping into tresspassers , atv's and jet boats, you're not hunting far enough. it's time to adapt and come up with a new game plan, not throw in the towel and blame a tv show or let another lazy "hunter" ruin your peaceful stroll in the woods with a noisy bike . There is more than enough room for everyone. No offence but, if you're hardcore, you move up and onwards .
 
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trebor2880 said:
The invent of the ATV did it for me. Now any lazy bum can go back into the quiet of the bush with his noisy, stinkin' machine, and ruin the serenity I once had.
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ha , sorry the atv's ended it for you..... I use mine to get to where it can't take me and my legs do the rest. It's surprising how the human legs can get even where a quad can't..... far enuff you can't even hear the quads any more.
Sadly though the sound of industry and destruction of habitat is pretty hard to escape these days and seems to be every where I go in hunting season.

I'll put wild game on my table till my body is simply unable...... changing laws and landscape be damned.
 
Health would be the only thing that would end it for me, everything else can be overcome. It’s like the old saying “if you don’t have your health you don’t have anything”
 
the spank said:
I have been losing interest the past few seasons. I was never a big game hunter though I have always had a big game rifle and bought and applied for tags just in case I decided to go. I have shot one deer in my life and it did nothing to make me want to continue each year. This past fall was the first time since age 15 I haven’t hunted waterfowl, never even bought a migratory permit and ended up selling my layout blinds, all my Canada decoys and 1/3 of my snow spread. Will probably sell the rest this year. Bought a provincial bird license and went once all season. Funny I contacted a member on here today to help me with a value on my big game rifle as I never use it and would sooner put the money into my new fishing rig. All that said I’ll still keep a few guns for the occasional hunt and of course my trap and skeet guns but I am at a point I can easily skip hunting and stick primarily to fishing.
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That's what moving out west will do to you, it's just too easy out there! Had you stayed here you would stil be hooked by the challenge! :p
 
I used to hunt for the serenity and solitude it offered. Not so much anymore. Too many people in the bush, nowadays. And a motorized vehicle is needed to get away from them all. No thanks.
 
Retirement in a few short years.

Going to sell most of my rifles and reloading gear this year.

I hate to say it but I have a sneaking suspicion a registry of some sort is coming our way.
 
GOUMFACH said:
Even then....you could be wheeled into the bush and you could call moose for someone !!! I know some pretty little clear cuts that have decent wheelchair access ;)
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My hunting buddies father had numerous health issues and he was still an avid hunter. He was also one of the best moose callers around and would sit in the truck and every 15 minutes or so make some calls. He would call and then put his head down and have a mini nap, and repeat this somewhat regularly. My first year hunting with him he called one out to me and I was able to put it down.

The next year at exactly the same spot, he made numerous calls and low and behold, he looked up and there was a moose standing beside the cut trail only 50 yards away looking in the opposite direction. We guess the moose winded me and was summing up the situation when my buddies dad came out of the truck and made a grunt to get it to turn around. Damn moose had a small rack so down he went.

Unfortunately that was his last year as his health had deteriorated rapidly after that. He was a hunter right up to the end.
 
Bucks only and a 2 week season ended it for me in Manitoba. Now there aren't too many bucks around. With my luck I would see does all day long...
 
Over the years I've come across small hand made memorials way back in the bush,sometime in old hunting camps or at the edge of an old campfire ,sometimes on an rock outlook likely put there by old hunting partners and as I get older, I understand
 
Lost interested in Big Games hunting about 13 years after passing of my hunting partner (Dad). Still like go to get couple of grouses and waterfowls each year. But I will never gave up on fishing. Love it a lot. Fished year round. Winter steelheading, spring, summer and fall trout and salmon fishing.
 
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