Real Hunters?

[longrangebob]

Hmmm it would appear that my Post from this am. disappeared?? Wonder where it went ????

 

[griz375]

The one guy I'd have to say is a true hunter is that fella on Naked and Afraid, not only does he hunt in Africa with a recurve, he goes hungry if not successful. And to top it off he does it with his Willy flopping in the breeze.. Bet nobody else on this thread does that.

 

[Martin@Hin]

Well Martin, we are all hunters. You may not be, and that's ok.

 

[ButterBean]

The comment wasn't directed at you in the first place and second it was a sarcastic joke against the OP.

That's what I took it as

 

[Orange Dust]

Well Martin, we are all hunters. You may not be, and that's ok.

I think he is. He's just not very good with English. When I was in school my teacher said I wasn't either, and it is my FIRST language.

 

[Orange Dust]

Hmmm it would appear that my Post from this am. disappeared?? Wonder where it went ????

A lot of folks have been "Disappeared" lately. Yellow Belly Man???

 

[Bill28]

How many of us are really hunters?
With that statement I like to define a true hunter but also no disrespect to the one's that fall out of this category.
A hunter in my opinion is a person that kills to have hunted.
Hunting means one knows everything about his quarry.
Knows its habits, paterns,where it lives and travels.
The hunter than plans and sets up a rendezvous and than hopefully if he is a competent marksman finishes the hunt.

So again no disrespect for people with a limited time frame,disabilities,traveling to far of locations etc.
These people must rely on outfiters and guides to do to a great extent the hunting for them and they become the shooters.

People hunting the fringes of parks,roadhunters ( with the exception of antelope ) game reserves and sanctuaries also don't qualify.
And neither do drones, heat seekers, fish finders. lol

So how many of us are really a full fledged hunters?
Just wondering.
Martin

I've harvested at least 35 elk, 40 deer, 1 Moose 15 or so Antelope, too many rabbits, squirrels and birds to count. Guess I'm a "real"hunter. All on open public lands.

 

[Terry Lightle]

No need to toot my own horn,have got it done since mid 1960s

 

[JustMe2]

Knows its habits, paterns (patterns), where it lives and travels.
The hunter than (then) plans and sets up a rendezvous and than (then) hopefully if he is a competent marksman finishes the hunt.

Martin

Your definition applies to every hunter I've ever known. Whether you hunt over a food plot/feeder from a shooting stand, or from a vehicle cruising the roads, or from horse back, or walking a corn field, etc. etc., you know the deer's "habits, patterns, where it lives and travels." Based on this knowledge, you then plan the location of your food plot/feeder, locate your shooting stand, position your vehicle, place blockers around a corn field for the walkers, etc., and wait for the rendezvous to finish the hunt. We hunt in different ways depending on the terrain and state you are hunting.

 

[asd9055]

These days I just harvest. Maybe someday I'll get back to real hunts again!

 

[Martin@Hin]

In the OP's words, "Hunting means one knows everything about his quarry.
Knows its habits, paterns,where it lives and travels." Why is using a trail camera not ethical to learn these things about one's quarry?

I'm very lucky. My family has enough land in an area that has plentiful deer, so I can set my blind in the same place every year and be relatively certain that an adult deer (usually more than one) will walk within range and my wife and I will have meat for the year. If someone thinks I'm not a real hunter because I didn't make it harder on myself to fill the freezer, or learn the deers true motivation for walking by my blind, they're entitled to their opinion.

I was not talkink about the tools to learn about the habits off the game using the game trail camera educated you on the habits.
If one has excess to private land and one knows ,heard or seen game or scrapes then a game camera is educational and tells you where to set up your blind so additional info for your hunt

 

[17remhunter]

How many of us are really hunters?
With that statement I like to define a true hunter but also no disrespect to the one's that fall out of this category.
A hunter in my opinion is a person that kills to have hunted.
Hunting means one knows everything about his quarry.
Knows its habits, paterns,where it lives and travels.
The hunter than plans and sets up a rendezvous and than hopefully if he is a competent marksman finishes the hunt.

So again no disrespect for people with a limited time frame,disabilities,traveling to far of locations etc.
These people must rely on outfiters and guides to do to a great extent the hunting for them and they become the shooters.

People hunting the fringes of parks,roadhunters ( with the exception of antelope ) game reserves and sanctuaries also don't qualify.
And neither do drones, heat seekers, fish finders. lol

So how many of us are really a full fledged hunters?
Just wondering.
Martin

When I started Trapping five years ago it was all new to me. I learned really fast that in order to be successful you really needed to know the animals you wanted to trap. Looking for small details, travel routes, scat, tracks, territorial boundries, hunting locations etc. I started noticing things that I never paid much attention to. As I learned more and more about the animals i was trapping the higher my success rate went. I would guess that most guys dont have the time to learn much and depend more on there binoculars and high powdere scopes to make up the difference. Im lucky enough to live right in the middle of where I trap. I spend one month scouting for each month I trap..... Goes along for hunting to.

 

[Martin@Hin]

I hunt to fill the freezer, in the most efficient legal means available, so I can spend time doing other stuff. I enjoy hunting but don't seek to prolong the experience either. I'd rather go to the zoo and shoot Skippy The Ganzelle than spend a week glass animals looking for one with antlers 1/2" longer than all the rest...

Minnesota Meat Hunters Association- proudly shooting tomorrow's trophys....today...

Thank you

 

[Martin@Hin]

Your definition applies to every hunter I've ever known. Whether you hunt over a food plot/feeder from a shooting stand, or from a vehicle cruising the roads, or from horse back, or walking a corn field, etc. etc., you know the deer's "habits, patterns, where it lives and travels." Based on this knowledge, you then plan the location of your food plot/feeder, locate your shooting stand, position your vehicle, place blockers around a corn field for the walkers, etc., and wait for the rendezvous to finish the hunt. We hunt in different ways depending on the terrain and state you are hunting.

Thank you you read the post and anything that maybe was between the lines