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How many here, don't hunt????(UPDATE)
Oakie
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Just curious if you have never hunted, or lost interest. Some people love guns and don't hunt like my son. I lost interest about ten years ago and got back into it about five years ago, but not like I use too. I basically just Archery and Muzzle loader hunt now. I will be Hunting in PA again, once the cabin is done. Oakie
I started Hunting when I was 10. I was instantly addicted. Grew up in a gun store my father owned. I would think about hunting, 24-7. I would skip school, just to go rabbit hunting and Trapping, when my parents left for work[:I]. I was heavy into trapping fur as a teenager, along the Pennsaulken creek. I used the money I got for the furs, to pay for my licenses and shells, to hunt. When Donna had Chris, I was around 29. I hunted a couple more years and then got hit with the, You need to spend more time with us and do the family vacation bit, instead of taking hunting vacations. I followed suit and did the family thing. Hunting fell off, little by little. Soon, I wasn't hunting at all.The Chris hit the ripe old age of ten, and it was on again. Well, sort of. I got the , "If anything happens to him, I will never forgive you" lecture, we all get.That lasted until he was 17 and said, Dad, I hate killing animals and think that I don't want to hunt anymore.[:)]I smile because, I realized my little boy, had become a man and made up his own mind and told me how he really felt. He still loves his shooting and guns. About five year ago, I got the bug again. I started back bow hunting and muzzle loader, with a trip here and there to our mountain house. Now I really got the bug , but good, and am back to thinking about nothing but hunting. I want so bad to take a trip out west, but don't know where to start and don't want to hunt alone out there. I only hunt by myself here, but being in an unfamiliar state and by myself, is just not a good idea. I know i would have to use a guide, which sucks, but I would also love to share my experience with a friend. POP can't go because he only has one eye and that one is getting real bad. He is almost blind.I figure within the next three to five years, he will be totally blind. No depth perception. I waited to long to go on this trip with him. My friend said he would go, so it might be on in the next year or two. Oakie
I started Hunting when I was 10. I was instantly addicted. Grew up in a gun store my father owned. I would think about hunting, 24-7. I would skip school, just to go rabbit hunting and Trapping, when my parents left for work[:I]. I was heavy into trapping fur as a teenager, along the Pennsaulken creek. I used the money I got for the furs, to pay for my licenses and shells, to hunt. When Donna had Chris, I was around 29. I hunted a couple more years and then got hit with the, You need to spend more time with us and do the family vacation bit, instead of taking hunting vacations. I followed suit and did the family thing. Hunting fell off, little by little. Soon, I wasn't hunting at all.The Chris hit the ripe old age of ten, and it was on again. Well, sort of. I got the , "If anything happens to him, I will never forgive you" lecture, we all get.That lasted until he was 17 and said, Dad, I hate killing animals and think that I don't want to hunt anymore.[:)]I smile because, I realized my little boy, had become a man and made up his own mind and told me how he really felt. He still loves his shooting and guns. About five year ago, I got the bug again. I started back bow hunting and muzzle loader, with a trip here and there to our mountain house. Now I really got the bug , but good, and am back to thinking about nothing but hunting. I want so bad to take a trip out west, but don't know where to start and don't want to hunt alone out there. I only hunt by myself here, but being in an unfamiliar state and by myself, is just not a good idea. I know i would have to use a guide, which sucks, but I would also love to share my experience with a friend. POP can't go because he only has one eye and that one is getting real bad. He is almost blind.I figure within the next three to five years, he will be totally blind. No depth perception. I waited to long to go on this trip with him. My friend said he would go, so it might be on in the next year or two. Oakie
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To many idiots - drunks - morons - losers out in the woods.
It's almost impossible to hunt in NJ now.
Pennsylvania near me is so overcrowded you might as well be hunting in a full concert hall - bumping elbows with folks.
Mike
If you could legally hunt certain types of humans though (drug dealers, rapists, child molesters, etc.), I might get involved again.
I did hunt the mountains of N.C. as well as Teleco Nat. Forest in Tenn thirty years ago but all my hunting friends are gone so I quit.
Frankly I would much rather fish but I haven't done that in maybe ten years.
It was cheaper than dog food and the dog had to eat too. Plus it honed my marksmanship abilities.
Later I decided that if I was going to carry a gun "all day", I would rather shoot than not shoot. So I stopped hunting and starting shooting, when I had the time.
Now I don't have a dog - or a place to shoot, so I just "collect".
I still enjoy driving to the family farm (about 2 hours round trip) with some new shooters and letting them shoot. I have some rather "exotic" things for them to shoot - and many of them have never shot a gun before . . . or at least some of the guns I have for them to shoot.
Lately I just spend my time hunting for a gun to add to my collection. So - in a way - I guess I still "hunt". [:D]
Ducks and geese only, for 67 years this fall. [^][^][^]
Who would have guessed?![:o)] congrats on over six decades.[:)]
Me, limited to deer, dove on occasion, coyote..
BUT, am going to get a wild hog in the next couple years, on the list.
But I still purchase hunting and fishing license.
I only fish where I can ride ATV to the water, and only where I catch a fish on each cast.
I enjoy seeing bear, elk, deer, moose, chuckar, forest grouse, turkey and other game while riding in the forest.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Feral hogs haven't quite reached us yet but they're on their way.
When they get here I'll try to blast a few.
Birds all day long since they're portable. Pocket size. I wanna try Ptarmigan those birds Sue up in Alaska shoots. They seem dumb and tasty [:D].
if you do not have a farmer or land owner in the family, ( close farmer friends is how I use to hunt but there kids and grandkids have grown and now hunt ) its just too much trouble to find some one due to there own families hunting the property's any where close .
last "hunt" I went on was with a co worker to a pheasant hunting club they raised / bought the birds
you took the birds out of the cage /pen into a couple large areas maybe 50 acres ?
gave them some time to run / fly hide then took dogs out
it was fun to watch the dogs hunt
but well like shooting chickens to me hand raised and feed bird
no offence to anyone who does it I understand the principle ( a lot of doctors and lawyers and business men who had little time to hunt ) and the birds do get away from what I was told ,
it was just not for me
Too many silly war on terrors out there during big game.
Haven't pulled a trigger now in years. Put away all my reloading gear. Sold most of my guns.
I kinda lost interest in shooting at animals. I think Marc1301 has the right idea. Hunting the most dangerous game would appeal to me. With a gun or a sword. Some, like the fiend that kidnapped and murdered a little 9 year old girl as she was WAITING ON HER FRONT PORCH FOR A CHURCH BUS in WVa I read about yesterday, the sword would be my weapon of choice.
I'd like to leave the world better than I found it and looking at it today, I found it pretty damned good.
I mainly go for my boys now. Perhaps my 18 year old will take the place of my old friend, Wayne. That would be the best thing that could happen. Now if we can just make our schedules work!
Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
(How's the mtn place coming along?)
I have hunted when young rabbits squirrels then moved up to ducks and geese then to deer and then to elk a few times
have realized it is far better for me to see my sons or other friends young-ins hunt though
But I do hunt for my wallet, glasses and keys a lot, does that count?
I used to love hunting. I'd go in the woods, kill some squirrels or rabbits, build a fire and eat them for lunch. I've hunted every game animal in America except elk and sheep. Even hunted caribou in Alaska a few times.
I kinda lost interest in shooting at animals. I think Marc1301 has the right idea. Hunting the most dangerous game would appeal to me. With a gun or a sword. Some, like the fiend that kidnapped and murdered a little 9 year old girl as she was WAITING ON HER FRONT PORCH FOR A CHURCH BUS in WVa I read about yesterday, the sword would be my weapon of choice.
I'd like to leave the world better than I found it and looking at it today, I found it pretty damned good.
That happened here in Olney,Il some 40 miles from me...yes, the hunt for him would be swift and not merciful.[:(!]
All the friends I bird hunted with have either got old or died. I'm not physically able to fight the waist high fire weeds any more, so I just tell stories now.
If I could, I would.
In fact, I like to remind hunters that if they want to keep their Browning Superposed in their hands they better make sure I keep the AR that's in mine.