Its funny to read some of these comments(won't be specific).
I know some of the guys posting here are old enough to remember the days of old when if you used a caplock bp rifle instead of a flintlock, you where looked down upon. Then the caplocks became sociable acceptable and if you shot an inline its not a bp rifle. Hell, lets go back to the matchlock guys. They think all the rest of us don't hunt fair and if yoy don't use real bp then,well,your just a disgrace and don't belong in the woods at all.
Then we have people that say unless you use a homemade recurve bow, you're not bowhunting. Some say a compound is ok but crossbows shouldn't be allowed during bow season.
If a caveman was alive today, he'd no doubt consider every one of us nothing but animal killers or harvestors for using anything but a rock or a spear.
Compared to the caveman's standards,which probably gave the animal the fairest chance,what gives anyone here the right to criticize another person's legal form of hunting. Also, I believe I've read that the caveman even baited.
If I want to kill a deer, I can usually open up the window and kill one under one of the apple/peach/pear tree's or when they're raiding the garden or the wifes flower gardens.
We eat deer and plenty of it. Ohio has a long bow season starting in Sept. and I usually try to get my freezer meat as fast as I can. These are nice does.
I'll usually have a buck picked out cause I've spent alot of time throughout the summer scouting. After freezer meat is in its game-on between the buck and I. The longest I've ever hunted the same buck was six years and I think he died of old age cause I never did shoot him.
Hunted him by stand,still hunted,hunted his scrape's and rubs, hunted oak and beech tree flats, standing corn,corn piles,alfalfa fields, watering holes even dreamed of hunting him. Used compound and crossbow, shotgun,pistol, b/p rifle's(yes, Hawkins 50cal. and an inline, ooooh). Would always see him at least once a season and in six years ,the most I saw him in one season was three times. All out of my range.
Some may call this trophy hunting. I call it hard hunting and a great challenge. Could have killed other bucks/does but didn't, had my does and I wanted him.
This year I'll be hunting a buck(if he survived,haven't seen sign of him yet this summer) for the third year. I'll kill my freezer meat then start hunting.
From the sounds of some of these post and some in the other thread, I've probably listed a way,style or weapon used that has offended a few if not many posters but one thing I can say is I've never taken any game illegally.
I posted in the other thread that IMO, if you use a legal weapon of any kind or hunt in any legal fashion you can always be critized by someone if you go back in history far enough.
Soooo... unless we go out in a loin cloth and hunt with a rock or a spear are we all just killing??? To bad there aren't any cavemen living today
I know some of the guys posting here are old enough to remember the days of old when if you used a caplock bp rifle instead of a flintlock, you where looked down upon. Then the caplocks became sociable acceptable and if you shot an inline its not a bp rifle. Hell, lets go back to the matchlock guys. They think all the rest of us don't hunt fair and if yoy don't use real bp then,well,your just a disgrace and don't belong in the woods at all.
Then we have people that say unless you use a homemade recurve bow, you're not bowhunting. Some say a compound is ok but crossbows shouldn't be allowed during bow season.
If a caveman was alive today, he'd no doubt consider every one of us nothing but animal killers or harvestors for using anything but a rock or a spear.
Compared to the caveman's standards,which probably gave the animal the fairest chance,what gives anyone here the right to criticize another person's legal form of hunting. Also, I believe I've read that the caveman even baited.
If I want to kill a deer, I can usually open up the window and kill one under one of the apple/peach/pear tree's or when they're raiding the garden or the wifes flower gardens.
We eat deer and plenty of it. Ohio has a long bow season starting in Sept. and I usually try to get my freezer meat as fast as I can. These are nice does.
I'll usually have a buck picked out cause I've spent alot of time throughout the summer scouting. After freezer meat is in its game-on between the buck and I. The longest I've ever hunted the same buck was six years and I think he died of old age cause I never did shoot him.
Hunted him by stand,still hunted,hunted his scrape's and rubs, hunted oak and beech tree flats, standing corn,corn piles,alfalfa fields, watering holes even dreamed of hunting him. Used compound and crossbow, shotgun,pistol, b/p rifle's(yes, Hawkins 50cal. and an inline, ooooh). Would always see him at least once a season and in six years ,the most I saw him in one season was three times. All out of my range.
Some may call this trophy hunting. I call it hard hunting and a great challenge. Could have killed other bucks/does but didn't, had my does and I wanted him.
This year I'll be hunting a buck(if he survived,haven't seen sign of him yet this summer) for the third year. I'll kill my freezer meat then start hunting.
From the sounds of some of these post and some in the other thread, I've probably listed a way,style or weapon used that has offended a few if not many posters but one thing I can say is I've never taken any game illegally.
I posted in the other thread that IMO, if you use a legal weapon of any kind or hunt in any legal fashion you can always be critized by someone if you go back in history far enough.
Soooo... unless we go out in a loin cloth and hunt with a rock or a spear are we all just killing??? To bad there aren't any cavemen living today