Step up your Dad game boys..
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To my eldest, I'm sorry I let you down by holding you back from that freak 30 pointer inside the petting zoo and instead sat encouraging you that you could calm down while I held your legs from shaking as you made a perfect shot on this NC 11 point at 8 years old.
Wildabeest
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11 pt. I like that.
Hilljackoutlaw
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I really don't understand why people are so offended by high fence hunting. I'm neither for, nor against it, and personally, I would never do it. But why are people so upset by what others do with their money? I see it as no different than buying a steer for butcher. Putting it bluntly, like cattle, those deer are raised to die.
Is it just the image that it gives to what we call fair chase hunting, or is it an issue of wealth and jealousy? I honestly dont know, I've just never been offended or bothered by what some people do that makes them happy.
This is not a fighting comment, simply just my thoughts. I'll keep trudging along to shoot spikes and bambis, and be happy doing it.
Is it just the image that it gives to what we call fair chase hunting, or is it an issue of wealth and jealousy? I honestly dont know, I've just never been offended or bothered by what some people do that makes them happy.
This is not a fighting comment, simply just my thoughts. I'll keep trudging along to shoot spikes and bambis, and be happy doing it.
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I could see myself being jealous of someone wealthy enough to buy an entire beef steer and consuming it.
I’d never be jealous of somebody shooting a big high fence whitetail . I just think they’re pathetic excuses for a “hunter” if they’re passing off any portion of their shooting as being something to admire.
Folks admire good steaks and the food they create from a cow that was raised to be killed and consumed. No one is bragging about the beef steer they shot in a pen and acting like it’s an accomplishment.
I’d never be jealous of somebody shooting a big high fence whitetail . I just think they’re pathetic excuses for a “hunter” if they’re passing off any portion of their shooting as being something to admire.
Folks admire good steaks and the food they create from a cow that was raised to be killed and consumed. No one is bragging about the beef steer they shot in a pen and acting like it’s an accomplishment.
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Hilljackoutlaw
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You answered your own question. What you just said is not hunting and should not be portrayed as such.
Naive wild animals are just different.
antlerradar
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My bet is there are a bunch of grip and grins on the internet of someone with a steer.
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44hunter45
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Do you leave the ear tag in for the mount? Asking for a friend.
rustneversleeps
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Is that Stay Sharp? That guy was a piece of work…
44hunter45
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Not to muddy this thread, but there are free range beef hunts in N.Z. Just a permit. No bag limit. No closed season.
noharleyyet
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Yes, he made the arrow, the bull, sewed the camo...and gave himself a haircut.
BuzzH
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If you think that's bad, you should hear the stories about this clown on hunts outside the wire...
Probably best to keep him and his family inside the fences.
Probably best to keep him and his family inside the fences.
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Hell, we got two wild Charolais bulls been trying to get caught for two years, couldn’t get them out of the brush and in the pens with horses, dogs and a chopper. Could probably arrange a free range hunt if anyone is interested…no horns though 
44hunter45
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Good memories of all those roundups as a kid. I should have known when my dad gave me shotgun chaps for Christmas I was his new brush buster.Hell, we got two wild Charolais bulls been trying to get caught for two years, couldn’t get them out of the brush and in the pens with horses, dogs and a chopper. Could probably arrange a free range hunt if anyone is interested…no horns though
Got a very "cowy" gelding, but no trailer. I can't rope for crap, but I can whack 'em on the head with a honda pretty good.
There's a high level of skill that comes with shooting a mature, trophy animal on a general license on public land. The work it takes to know a place, put it all together and find that elusive bull or buck - that kind of sweat equity means you've earned an animal as well as the ability to repeat the effort when needed. There's a tremendous amount of pride that should come with that. That's quintessentially the North American hunting ethos. IMO, the difference in the kind of equity used to achieve a task is where the rub comes in. People who have spent their whole lives scrubbing it out with everyone else, who have had to learn not only the critter in question's habits, habitats and routes but everything else in the forest as well, who have put in mile after mile and eventually pulled the trigger or loosed the arrow - that's a sense of accomplishment that many don't have. They have earned that animal through trial, tribulation, blind $*)Q!#@$ luck and a lot of skill earned over years of hard work.
Our laws reflect the public ownership of wildlife because we remembered that feeling when the king would send his men out to pick off poachers who were feeding families. Americans, throughout the majority of our history, made the conscience decision to err on the side of effort rather than wealth to achieve amazing outcomes. We told King George that those weren't his deer/elk/turkeys, whatever but instead belonged to everyone. Colonial America's love of earning a critter started when the first pilgrims settled in Jamestown in 1607.
When you forgo the actual lesson and simply purchase the prize, that's where the derision comes in, in my experience. If the only lesson in hunting revolves around the kill, then I think that a lot of folks who view hunting as a far more holistic event tend to look at a guy who buys a kill similarly to how people look at those who buy their way into college, or some such. Skipping the effort to purchase the prize means that kid won't have nearly as good of a life as any of the kids who've pulled the trigger on an honest wild animal.
If folks want to hunt high-fence then I suppose good on them, it means there's a little more room in the woods for folks who don't mind sweating and walking out heavy.
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