The entire purist "you're not a real hunter" stuff is just egotistical bullshittery at its finest, just like fly fishing snobs who think someone with a strike indicator is some kind of horrid gump who doesn't know how to properly drift a No. 20 along a seam.
Preach.
It's especially galling coming from folks that do basically the exact same thing but just with a different type of bait. I'm still waiting for a clear concise explanation of how someone is a lazy slob hunter if they would sit in a tree stand overlooking a feeder if legalized but are not a lazy slob hunter for sitting in a shooting house overlooking a green field or a standing corn field. Of course I know why I haven't gotten an explanation on that point. Because it can be explained. It's the exact same activity. One doesn't require anymore skill, effort, or knowledge than the other.
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back. - Abigail van Buren
