Are the good old days ahead of us??

I ask with so much more management then ever before and species like Elk and other animal numbers growing or being transplanted in most state east of the the old Miss. Do you think that the good old day still lie ahead for Hunter yet to come or are they past or passing now with change in hunting populations and animal surplus?? Post up what you think .

Here are my thought on this .

Nope the good old days were years ago when hunters hunted for the enjoyment and camaraderie ,it was when any kill was what it was about and we ate well .It was a time when any buck was a great buck and real Manley men took to the woods . Not the new generation of clean shaven >{All OVER } , metro sexual, borderline tree hugger, that revere the whitetail deer to almost God like status .Who actually shed a tear or feel remorse for taking its live . {I say phooey to that shoot em all let god sort em out} !!

It was a time when we only shot a Doe for camp meat and felt a twinge when we pulled the trigger on her but we had to eat for the week. Now they kill way more than they can eat and then donate all the deer they shoot and only keep the antlers off of their dead 150 class buck . It was a time when as many as 10 or 12 hunters would spend days on end in the deer woods and where may one or two would ever get to take a buck . But that was OK we were all there to see it and it hung from our meat poll for all the other hunters to stop by and look at .

There was no egotistical sass from them just a hardy hand shake and pat on the back from men with hands like sand paper that felt like a rock . Not the incipient whine from a self imposed QDM buck police man who's first words would be I would of let that one walk or he needed another few years in only that condescending way that those types can speak to other . Our deer were all heathy you knew that when they sped off and they were fat and big we did not need one buck to one doe like so many need today or they just are not hunting we just needed some deer and a few buck with antlers any antlers were just fine . It was just about killing one and his point count not how old and how many inches of bone where on his head.

Yip the good old days of hunting purity have left the building with Elvis ,and the open deer camp with a case of Miller in the cooler a dozen eggs frying in the pan with fresh deer steaks sizzling near by, and the story of the one that got away being told by an excited hunter who just saw his first big buck in the flicker of the fire light . And the pounding of the heart of a young man that felt the crisp bite of the October nite and enjoyed the smell of the oak logs burning on the fire and could barely sleep but would spring to his feet in the darkness to the sound of the elder hunters who were in their late 20s or early 30s making the morning mud on the fire .

Yip I miss the good old days and
I do not get the guys of today and their ways or hunting motivation .They will never know what I saw or learned in those early days .Nor have the memories of past hunts with little more than a bow ,a sharp knife , a bed roll,and cooler of odds and ends of food and beer that run in my mind like a movie when I see a fire burning or hear a story from a hunter who just saw his first giant buck slip away in the mist of the deep woods . They will not know what it was like to have a great season and only see 3 or 4 deer a year let alone a buck with antlers stand under your tree long enough to give a good shot from a bow that could on a good day muster 190fps with a solid orange arrow!

The old days are years gone by for me.

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