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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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codybrown Super Member
Joined: Feb 10, 2007 Posts: 379 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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I would be the Sportsman stage. For the majority of the hunting that I do, I don't care if I get anything. I just like being outdoors.
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Pumpkinslinger Super Member
Joined: Sep 22, 2007 Posts: 5001 Location: NC foothills
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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Sportsman stage. I've passed on far more shots than I've taken. I've never been close enough to a limit to worry about it. A trophy wouldn't be turned down but a big doe for the freezer is just as nice. While I do try different tools I really don't care a whole lot about which I'm using at a given time. The most fun I've ever had was taking my daughter with me for the first time this year. The whole experience was fantastic and we passed up deer I could have about knocked over with a rock.
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English Mike Super Member
Joined: Jan 08, 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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I guess it's partly mindset, as I've been at the latter stage since day one - probably because the guys I hunt with are the best companions I've ever had the pleasure to meet (who says us Limeys don't like Americans?).
If hunting was purely a matter of taking the quarry, then I don't know whether it would be of any interest to me.
Sitting on a mountain side watching the dawn break, stalking through the woods, bullsh**ing round the fire in the evening - the sum total of the experience is what it's all about.
Roll on October 2008
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shrpshtrjoe Super Red Neck Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 2965 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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I have always enjoyed all aspects of hunting. So I would say the sportsman stage. I have never bin a "Trophy Hunter" per say I enjoy filling my freezer limits never meant much, if I can put enough in the freezer to take me to the next season then I'm a happy man . I just realy enjoy being out there. A successful hunt doesn't mean shooting a deer on every outing. I quit drinking in 1990 and instead of going to AA I went into the woods or a stream fishing, the outdoors is where I turned when life dropped it's little bombs and I still turn to the woods.
Joe
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hunterjoe21 Super Member
Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Miles City, Montana
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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I guess if I have to be honest, I'm somewhere between the last two stages. While I'm still stuck in the "how to", I enjoy the time spent in the woods, whether or not I kill something.
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d_hoffman Super Member
Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 696 Location: Chillicothe, Ohio
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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Hey Cody, you said a mouth full. You too Mike. It's especially true when you come dangerously close to not being able to do alot of the things you used to do.
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Deleted_User_2665 Super Member
Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 380
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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All of them combined......
Am in constant kill mode, on purpose, to take advantage of every opportunity granted....in order to fill the tags sourced.....with a "trophy" Critter...by whatever method available in the given stage of the Season....
And doing so while promoting myself as a Sportsman and Mentor to my kids....
Hunting to me is a Quickening..................
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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Wildswalker,
Thats cheating!
Myself I limit myself to one deer a year (just the general tag you buy with your deer license and if I'm lucky the antlerless validation tag to go with it don't by the additional archery deer tags they sell), this year like last year ended up in me not filling that tag, but I'm still going hunting next year! Going to hopefully have a warmer October which will allow me on a nice sunny October day take a nap while waiting around for the deer. Cause to me a day in the outdoors is more important then getting a deer.
Dimitri
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d_hoffman Super Member
Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 696 Location: Chillicothe, Ohio
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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Yes that may be true but if I get a chance to get myself a deer I'll take it! Plus I already own the guns and bow.
Dimitri
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FALPhil Super Member
Joined: Aug 18, 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Dixie
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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I'm LMAO. That's typical California assume-the-worst-of-the-stupid-citizens nanny state garbage. Or maybe not. A lot of times, I do think the citizens of California are stupid - in the collective sense.
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ElyBoy Super Member
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 1541 Location: Forest Lake Minnesota
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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I've been in the sportsmen's stage for many years now, but I still shoot a lot of game just because I know how to hunt.
I never have been too quick on the trigger, and even when I was a young pup, I passed on many shots. [ducks, rabbits, upland birds, and deer] My Dad taught me safety well.
Like Wildswalker said, I'm always in the "kill mode".
Back home in Ely, I was know as "Road Kill Marleau"
My Wife still hates it when I bring home Road Kill, which is quite often.
She never complains when the tire treads on the meat are table fare though.
My Son Ben still has to shoot or catch limits to call a hunt successful.
We caught a limit of crappie ice fishing tonight so he was happy.
I would have had a good trip if we had caught nothing, but when fishing with me, most people catch their limit.
I just read my post for errors, and realized that I just came across as one arogant SOB when it comes to hunting and fishing.
My Dad use to say that "it ain't brag'in if it's the truth"
Eric
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15715 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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wildswalker wrote: |
All of them combined......
Am in constant kill mode, on purpose, to take advantage of every opportunity granted....in order to fill the tags sourced.....with a "trophy" Critter...by whatever method available in the given stage of the Season....
And doing so while promoting myself as a Sportsman and Mentor to my kids....
Hunting to me is a Quickening.................. |
Ya know what...I reckon I'm a bit like old "wilds" here. When I go hunting, I am in kill mode too. I take every advantage offered to me...cause that's why I'm out there. Trophy Hunter...nah, but I don't pass up on a critter just cause it is or isn't a trophy...I'm just not interested in the trophy thats all.
However, again like "wilds" I fall heavily into the Sportsman category and I endeavour to be a mentor to anybody that accompanies me on a hunt...just wish it was my kids or grandkids.
Cheers, Vince
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ElyBoy Super Member
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 1541 Location: Forest Lake Minnesota
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: What type of hunter are you ?? |
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Hey Vince,
While out fishing tonight, Ben said that he would like to some day hunt in Australia.
If you paid his way over there, and buy his licenses, I'll bet he would let you mentor him.
Just a thought partner.
Eric
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