Post by mrfixit on Aug 15, 2010 10:45:17 GMT -5
Lots of truth here for us all.
I don't pretend to know anyone else's desires or what they get out of hunting but I hunt with a longbow, recurve, side lock ML, pistol and even a couple with ye ol smoothbore slug gun.
Havent tried a "rifle" yet due to my pistol having more range (and it's more fun for ME, anyway) and havent hunted with a crossbow..........but I will defend those that wish to hunt with them, attempt to ADD more days afield for all, and KEEP what we have now at the very least.
I look at this opportunity, that being the option of supposedly having a say so, as a chance for ALL of us to unite in one big sporting family and support each other's methods.
If sharing a time frame with another weapon IS an "issue" to any.......then this is nothing more than ANOTHER reason for LONGER seasons allowing each of us to get out amongst em with LESS other hunter pressure REGARDLESS of weapon choice.
I fail to see how the weapon involved increases or decreases how much the other hunter's presence will effect me.......much anyway.
Those that have to have it all their way will be the ones where a lease is mandated so they have full control over who hunts......with what.
I just got my "old place" to hunt back. While it's no longer "exclusive" hunting rights I give thanks that I can once again hunt there again. After not being able to hunt there due to family members of the owner thinking they had the total rights for three years........I've no complaints sharing.
I recall a time when most of my Dad's freinds called to ASK HIM to come hunt with them.
Not a lot of that going on in this era. Too many feel that another hunter will "take their buck" or some such silly (IMO) nonsense.
While it is becoming universally accepted, the quest for a super duper buck has changed our sport from "finding one and hunting it" to "growing our own".
It's all in what a person's goals are in our sport but just way too many seem to be gained only by someone else's loss and I find this a sad, sad, sad attitude for a world that has found this method to be acceptable in so much of our lives that it is now "normal" in the hunting world.
Even when I had exclusive rights to the place I just got back I helped other hunters fill a tag or two every year and never once regretted it.
Not even when a young man "dumbed into" the 146 3/8 inch 8 point I was hunting and hammered him at about 8 yards was there any "loss" involved IMO. It wasn't "MY buck". It was still an exciting time, a great memory and has helped produce a fine, fine friendship that will last till my time to go.
I feel I came out quite the "winner" in that "trade"!
2 cents
God Bless
Steve
There ya go fellas, I'm not sure it could be expressed more eloquently!