Sometimes I dont get hunters...

[SteamWake]

Got nothing at all against hunting. If you want to go shoot stuff and eat it go ahead.

But... today I woke up to a solid overcast sky, raining, and tempratures right around upper 30's to low 40's. Nasty day out I thought to myself and pulled the covers up closer and snuggled in.

Im woken again with Pup... pup... pup pup ... Well Ill be some crazy duck hunters out there in this crap. "Perfect weather for duck hunting" :rotfl2:

Sure you enjoy yourself now :haha: I'll stay inside where its warm and dry thanks. If I want a duck Ill run down to the meat market and buy one. :up:

[August]

There's this whole man against nature thang. One of the main reasons I liked winter camping for example.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Got nothing at all against hunting. If you want to go shoot stuff and eat it go ahead.

But... today I woke up to a solid overcast sky, raining, and tempratures right around upper 30's to low 40's. Nasty day out I thought to myself and pulled the covers up closer and snuggled in.

Im woken again with Pup... pup... pup pup ... Well Ill be some crazy duck hunters out there in this crap. "Perfect weather for duck hunting" :rotfl2:

Sure you enjoy yourself now :haha: I'll stay inside where its warm and dry thanks. If I want a duck Ill run down to the meat market and buy one. :up:

Pfft...w/the right gear, just about any environment is bearable, or even enjoyable!!!

[SteamWake]

Well sometimes I sit out in my back yard at night and use a telescope in cold weather for hours.

Some would call the crazy too but at least it aint raining :salute:

[Weiss Pinguin]

Gimme cold weather over heat anyday. Sure, it's harder to get going, but it's a lot easier to warm up than it is cool down ;)

[Snestorm]

Gimme cold weather over heat anyday. Sure, it's harder to get going, but it's a lot easier to warm up than it is cool down ;)

We sure are opposites on that one.
C'mon summer.

[Oberon]

I can see how people get a thrill from the hunt, stalking prey and such, I quite enjoy stalking players in online games, lining up for the shot and them not knowing what hit them. Of course, the best thing for humans is that animals don't shoot back... :damn:
I don't get hunting really either, not on live targets, and yeah, I heard exactly the same thing in pretty much the same condictions this morning. I've even heard them popping away over on the marshes in the pouring rain with a strong wind...I mean...what the heck could they hit in that? :hmmm:

[Sailor Steve]

Gimme cold weather over heat anyday. Sure, it's harder to get going, but it's a lot easier to warm up than it is cool down ;)
When I first moved to Utah I fell in love with the winters, since I had never lived through one before. Now I've reached an age where I still like them, but my joints sure don't. Nothing I love more than to lie in the sun in mid-July.

[AVGWarhawk]

I have nothing against hunters either but I have to laugh when I watch a hunting show for a few minutes. There is the hunter in a blind. Camo on. Deer scent. Salt licks. Rattle the plastic antlers. Next thing you know here comes a buck. In a hush hush voice the hunter prepares. Under his breath..."What a beautiful animal. I have never seen such a magnificent 13 point buck!" "A creature like this is once in a life time." Then...KA-POW...dead magnificent beautiful once in a life time dead 13 point buck. :shifty: I just find that strange. Let the thing go and pick up a steak at the market.

[Snestorm]

I have nothing against hunters either but I have to laugh when I watch a hunting show for a few minutes. There is the hunter in a blind. Camo on. Deer scent. Salt licks. Rattle the plastic antlers. Next thing you know here comes a buck. In a hush hush voice the hunter prepares. Under his breath..."What a beautiful animal. I have never seen such a magnificent 13 point buck!" "A creature like this is once in a life time." Then...KA-POW...dead magnificent beautiful once in a life time dead 13 point buck. :shifty: I just find that strange. Let the thing go and pick up a steak at the market.

Ja, that is strange. And it can realy piss me off to find a headless carcass.
Thankfuly, that's a minority.

[AVGWarhawk]

Poachers are not good either. A few states have the mechanical deer and moose. They catch quite a few poachers poaching the animated deer. :har: I mean really, the reason hunting happens is it keeps the population in check. No need to be poaching.

[mookiemookie]

Here in Texas (and I'm sure a lot of other places too), there is a contingent of people who use deer feeders full of corn to lure them in and then blast away from their blinds set up in a tree. They call themselves "hunters" but they're not. If you leave your feeder out and the deer become conditioned to come running when they hear the "whirr-whirr-whirr" of the feeder turning on, then you may as well go hunting in a zoo. Where's the "hunt"? Where's the challenge?

It's hunting for lazy and talentless hacks, that's what it is.

[Oberon]

Sounds a lot like the pheasant shooters over here.
They feed the pheasants up over the summer, they're reared in hutches and then let loose but come to feed at scattered feeders, so they're pretty tame.
Then, come the shooting season, the beaters head out with the dogs, scare the pheasants up into the air and kablam, blasted out of the sky before it even gets up that high. Heck, some of them even have their wings clipped to prevent them flying that well.
There can be amusing moments though, I remember one shoot taking place a few fields away where someone obviously had a misbehaving dog, for all you could hear above the gunshots was "Rags! Rags! Come here! Rags, You Bastard!!" :har:

[SteamWake]

Here in Texas (and I'm sure a lot of other places too), there is a contingent of people who use deer feeders full of corn to lure them in and then blast away from their blinds set up in a tree. They call themselves "hunters" but they're not. If you leave your feeder out and the deer become conditioned to come running when they hear the "whirr-whirr-whirr" of the feeder turning on, then you may as well go hunting in a zoo. Where's the "hunt"? Where's the challenge?

It's hunting for lazy and talentless hacks, that's what it is.

Yes I always found seeding to be an unsavory practice.

[Snestorm]

Yes I always found seeding to be an unsavory practice.

Just sick people. No desire, ambition, or energy for a hunt.
They get off on killing. It's a good group to stay away from.

[AVGWarhawk]

Here in Texas (and I'm sure a lot of other places too), there is a contingent of people who use deer feeders full of corn to lure them in and then blast away from their blinds set up in a tree. They call themselves "hunters" but they're not. If you leave your feeder out and the deer become conditioned to come running when they hear the "whirr-whirr-whirr" of the feeder turning on, then you may as well go hunting in a zoo. Where's the "hunt"? Where's the challenge?

It's hunting for lazy and talentless hacks, that's what it is.

Just about how you see the 'professionals' on TV do it. Show up in their Ford donated 4x4 complete with all the 4x4 trimmings. They salt and put feed out. Then sit and wait to see what is around. When the season comes in the HUNTER goes to the very spot he has conditioned the animal to expect some food. The HUNTER sit and plays nice for the camera. All in good TV my man. Good TV. Plus commericals galore! The deceptions for months culminating into the death of an unwary deer does not make for good TV IMO. Makes for a guy hanging out in a tree taking a shot an any opportunity that happens to be walking by just looking to get a piece of doe for the day. Yeah, hunting to me is walking the woods (unknown woods at that) finding and stalking the deer. Let's be fair! Maybe make it real fun. Have the Game Warden set up various bear traps and pitfalls for the hunters. Make it FUN.

My dad worked in the ER in Hagerstown MD. He had a chart every fall. One side had Deer and other had Hunter. Everytime a hunter came in with a broken this or that. Shot up or just plain injured he would put a check mark under the Deer column. :yeah:

[August]

To me hunting is not some silly handicap game that pits my wits against the noble beast of the forest. It's about getting a hundred or so pounds of cheap low fat, free range meat. To that end i'll give them a good habitat, i'll salt and feed them, I'll even thin out the local coyote population if it improves my chances of killing one.

[Weiss Pinguin]

Eh, I'm not a hunting fanatic, being in the city and all, but when I get the chance, I do like going out in the mornings. Although I would like to try stalking sometime.

[CaptainHaplo]

If I hunt, I do it with a purpose - and that is to eat what I take. I have hunted number of animals, and the only one I can say became a "stalk" is bear. Hunting bear is a true stalk against an animal that is very apt to turn you into the hunted. Depending on the species, it can be a very stimulating, and dangerous, experience. A black bear for instance, will circle and hunt YOU if your not truly sharp.

And let me say this, lugging a bear out of the woods is no fun. Often, you have to dress it immediately, otherwise you wouldn't be able to take it out. Some of those buggers get huge.

If your going to hunt - eat what you shoot.

[Task Force]

... I live near water... fishing for me.:up:

Only thing is... I like cold weather... fish dont like cold weather...:shifty:

[magic452]

I did all my hunting with an old and trusted Winchester model 94 30/30 with iron sights. A good gun in close quarters but a real challenge in the open areas of California. When hunting season became to over populated I switched to a bow. Not one of these fancy ones you get now but a simple 75 pound draw re-curve type. They had a special bow season then.
Didn't always fill my tag but had plenty of fun.
Back in those days if you knew where to hunt in Cal. you could get some pretty good deer.

Tried bear hunting once but they were using dogs and it didn't seem like much of a challenge, never went again.
Also bear isn't all that great to eat.

Magic

[mookiemookie]

Also bear isn't all that great to eat.


Full of trichinosis if you don't cook it carefully enough. I'll pass, thank you.

[Oberon]

My dad worked in the ER in Hagerstown MD. He had a chart every fall. One side had Deer and other had Hunter. Everytime a hunter came in with a broken this or that. Shot up or just plain injured he would put a check mark under the Deer column. :yeah:

I love it!! :yeah::yeah::yeah:

[AVGWarhawk]

I love it!! :yeah::yeah::yeah:

This was one way to keep his sanity in the ER!

[August]

... I live near water... fishing for me.:up:

Only thing is... I like cold weather... fish dont like cold weather...:shifty:

Ice fishing is big up in Maine. There must be a couple dozen huts towed out onto the ice on nearby Saponac pond every winter.

[XabbaRus]

Ice hunting in Russia is funny, especially when it gets towards spring. Always several ice fisherman who end up on a lump of ice that floats away into the Gulf of Finland and they have to be rescued.

[longam]

Still have my 12 gauge pump, but stopped hunting small game years back because of the lack of game. Forget about going to the state reserves to hunt, too many fools with a gun in one area.

Also with the introduction of red-tail hawks in the area to get rid of the pigeon population, when they ran out of pigeons to eat they went after rabbits and pheasants.

It been about 10 years so I don't know how it is now, but I enjoyed the hunt and always ate what I shot. I keep saying I'm going to pick back up on fishing but never do. :cry:

[Blacklight]

Well sometimes I sit out in my back yard at night and use a telescope in cold weather for hours.

Some would call the crazy too but at least it aint raining :salute:

In my opinion, cold clear weather is the best time for star gazing. It really clears up the sky. During the summer, a light haze forms. You don't really notice it, but when your telescope is magnifying something 100x, you really notice it.
When it's cold out, and you let your scope temperature adjust, you get nice, clear, and crisp views as long as your shivering doesn't blur it back up.