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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/18/19 05:17 PM
01/18/19 05:17 PM
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MC21
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Central Alabama
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There no such thing as “real” or “fake” hunting you’re either huntin or ya ain’t huntin simple as that. Just hunt whatever way makes you happy but don’t try to call out someone because they’re not hardcore enough
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/18/19 05:21 PM
01/18/19 05:21 PM
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Posts: 22,148 blount county alabama
jwalker77
Pumpkin
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Pumpkin
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Posts: 22,148
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I hunt ever witcha way. Sitting in a shooting house right now, might be stalking across a hardwood ridge tomorrow, and climb a pine tree tomorrow evening. I just do whatever I think might work at the time. When my boy gets a bit older im gona try some 2man drives, I like that too.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: UncleHuck]
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01/18/19 05:38 PM
01/18/19 05:38 PM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,953 Round ‘bout there
Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
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Round ‘bout there
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Is it "real hunting" if I use a ladder stand or a climber, or do I have to grow my toenails out real long so I can climb the tree without any assistance?
Have to check with Swampy about this.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: BrentM]
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01/18/19 05:40 PM
01/18/19 05:40 PM
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Posts: 26,431 Helena
3toe
Talking Turkey
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Talking Turkey
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All this scouting and “buck’s bedroom” stuff....... if you find his “bedroom “ and it’s in daylight hours there’s a good chance he was laying there and you done run him off, making him that much harder to kill. I get excited when I find a lot of buck sign in a thick place but then I start thinking I’ve done stunk this place up brushing up against these limbs and bushes. I’ve got about 60 acres of limestone and cedar thickets that I get in my head I could kill a good deer on but on the other hand I hate to stomp thru it cause I think that’s where the majority of my deer live.
I wish I knew what the happy medium was concerning scouting vs stinking. You're not using the right scent. If you were then it would be like flipping a switch.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/18/19 07:04 PM
01/18/19 07:04 PM
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CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
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Awbarn, AL
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Once you get over the phase of trying to prove something to other people then you won’t really give a damn about where or how you choose to hunt. Hunting is way more enjoyable when you stop caring what everyone else thinks. You can go to the woods and just have fun without feeling so much pressure to make it happen. You don’t feel that intense disappointment if the season ends without you killing the big one. All of that stress you put on yourself goes away and you can just go to have fun.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: CNC]
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01/18/19 07:13 PM
01/18/19 07:13 PM
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My head is in my ass.
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Once you get over the phase of trying to prove something to other people then you won’t really give a damn about where or how you choose to hunt. Hunting is way more enjoyable when you stop caring what everyone else thinks. You can go to the woods and just have fun without feeling so much pressure to make it happen. You don’t feel that intense disappointment if the season ends without you killing the big one. All of that stress you put on yourself goes away and you can just go to have fun.
Don't go looking for TROUBLE, it'll find you soon enough!
There are old, wise men and then there are just old fools. The sooner you learn this, the wiser you will be.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: ronfromramer]
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01/18/19 08:33 PM
01/18/19 08:33 PM
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Posts: 2,033 Mobile, AL
Mdees
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8 point
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I think everyone(except me, because I appreciate the advancement of technology) should hunt with a sharpened stick and should walk or ride a horse to where they will be hunting. Think how challenging and rewarding that would be That is unfair. You can ride a horse right up to a deer in many places. They don’t know what it is and aren’t bothered by it.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: CNC]
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01/18/19 08:59 PM
01/18/19 08:59 PM
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Posts: 1,017 Alabama
oldbowhunter
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6 point
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Alabama
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Once you get over the phase of trying to prove something to other people then you won’t really give a damn about where or how you choose to hunt. Hunting is way more enjoyable when you stop caring what everyone else thinks. You can go to the woods and just have fun without feeling so much pressure to make it happen. You don’t feel that intense disappointment if the season ends without you killing the big one. All of that stress you put on yourself goes away and you can just go to have fun. ^^^^^^^This. Right here.^^^^^^^^^
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/19/19 09:37 AM
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I believe this question can be answered by asking yourself, "what does 'fair chase' mean to me?"
The guy that's gotten me into hunting and I talk about this concept often. I'm a middle-aged man who is still beginning to understand basic hunting concepts. I've only been at this a couple of years.The property I hunt (~120acres) is from asking for permission from someone I knew and then spreading outwards to their neighbors for permission. There's no green fields, no shooting houses and nobody saying where to go to see deer. The terrain is incredibly steep as it borders Smith Lake in several places, which causes a forecasted North wind to come from the SW or East, depending how far down the side of whichever ridge I'm sitting and the vegetation around me. (INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING!)
Nobody told me that crap. I had to go and figure it out. That has allowed me to build up enough confidence in my trials and errors to computer scout Bankhead and kill a deer on my first trip out there..
On days like today when it's storming and blowing, I'd love to have a shooting house overlooking a green field. I would be so much more comfortable. But, right now, to me, deer hunting isn't necessarily about being comfortable. It's challenging to try to intersect the path of a deer in their undisturbed habitat and claim success on that day. Most days I fail... badly! But I put in the effort to go to the deer, on their turf and that has to be good enough on those days that I don't kill or even see anything.
I'm sure that the more addicted I get, the better the chances will be that I will wind up in a house, looking at a long stretch of greenery. I hope that when that day comes, I still get as excited when a doe and fawn walk out as I do right now. These animals are amazing creatures and I don't want to lose sight of the fact that we're lucky to be able to participate in this dance with them, from a climber in a pine or a lazy boy in a shooting house.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: CNC]
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01/19/19 10:44 AM
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Posts: 34,430 Boxes Cove
2Dogs
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Once you get over the phase of trying to prove something to other people then you won’t really give a damn about where or how you choose to hunt. Hunting is way more enjoyable when you stop caring what everyone else thinks. You can go to the woods and just have fun without feeling so much pressure to make it happen. You don’t feel that intense disappointment if the season ends without you killing the big one. All of that stress you put on yourself goes away and you can just go to have fun. It pains me some, but I agree with you.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/19/19 10:53 AM
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Posts: 24,832 Buc-ee’s Beach Express
leroycnbucks
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Posts: 24,832
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We have scrapes and rubs all around our green fields, crp fields and cut overs. Isn’t this buck sign? And if I’m sitting in a ground blind or shooting house hunting theses areas am I hunting bucks? I believe so.
Proud Army and ALNG veteran God Bless America!
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/19/19 10:55 AM
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Posts: 3,126 KY
AUstan23
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10 point
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KY
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I don't use trail cameras, feed, food plots, half the time I don't even use a treestand, scent control, mock scrapes, any other kind of scent stuff. I find the terrain and vegetation pinches on public land and shoot the deer that give me quick clean kills. That's really all there is to it. I chuckle at the guys that feel obligated to adopt every knew product as necessary to their "arsenal" like scent bags and ground blinds and new camo patterns and all that bull.
It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he has been fooled.
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: AUstan23]
#2711223
01/19/19 01:40 PM
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Posts: 3,494 Jefferson
Fun4all
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 3,494
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I don't use trail cameras, feed, food plots, half the time I don't even use a treestand, scent control, mock scrapes, any other kind of scent stuff. I find the terrain and vegetation pinches on public land and shoot the deer that give me quick clean kills. That's really all there is to it. I chuckle at the guys that feel obligated to adopt every knew product as necessary to their "arsenal" like scent bags and ground blinds and new camo patterns and all that bull. Wait a dang minute!! You mean you can kill deer without sponsors??? How will the sport of hunting and youtube survive??
Last edited by Fun4all; 01/19/19 01:41 PM.
"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope
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Re: Has the “hunt” been taken out of hunting?
[Re: cdub2407]
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01/19/19 10:41 PM
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Posts: 9,862 Mobile, AL
alhawk
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 9,862
Mobile, AL
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The first 30 years of my life, we hunted the river swamp on land only accessible by boat. We didn't have any timber rights and could not cut any trees to clear for plots. I dreamed of hunting big food plots and seeing deer over 100 yards away. Kids and caregiving for a parent have greatly reduced the time I can be in the woods. I just enjoy the time I have now, whether it be in a house or climber With that being said, you can bet your azz I will be in a house, with a heater tomorrow trying to get my daughter a deer and won't think twice about missing that damn cold azz boat ride. Bought four propane cylinders tonight to prove it
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