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As to the hippocrite part, check your mirror, friend. You are developing a mightier than thou attitude, and so long as you are freely dispensing advice, I have a tidbit for you-cancel your subscription to American Hunter magazine. They obviously show different ways of taking game, and it upsets you unnecessarily.
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I would be a hypocrite if I preached one thing and did another. I don't though, thank you. The Magazine is just another symptom of the illness infecting hunting. If it was the only thing, then believe me I wouldn't read it, but it is a minor thing yet indicative.
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There is a pretty good reason I stand hunt
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And a good reason it appears to be too. Hunting techniques also have to change with terrain. In super thick brush, there may be no other reasonable way than an elevated stand, if a stand is used without bait that is. If you feed primarily to supplement the deers nutrition, you can also do that without hunting over it.
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people who rely on sophisticated gadgetry to overcome the deers native ability instead of developing hunting skills are not hunters that I have any respect for. I still don't understand ... how does a firearm not fall under this statement?
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Hunting is a traditional sport. We traditionally hunt with guns, some with bows. Traditional, see? It is not traditional to use electronic spy gear, for instance. Using a new modern precision rifle during rifle season is just fine. Using a modern ML during centerfire season is excellent. Using a bow during centerfire season is awesome. Would you consider it OK to use a rifle during bow only season? Given your logic it would seem to be fine.
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The sport of hunting is about competing with yourself
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Competing with yourself? What? You are competing with the deer, not with yourself or other hunters. You are pitting your skill and brain against the deers' instincts, senses and knowledge of the field.
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It is kind of funny how self-righteous people get when someone does something a different way and it works.
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You think it wrong to get angry when someone sees a fine traditional sport being vandalized by consumer frenzy and the
"I gott have a deer every time I go hunting cause I live in the city and only have a little time to hunt" crowd?------
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As someone pointed out, a lot of urbanites are involved in hunting which require them to take off from work, plan an expensive mini-vacation...etc. They want to bag a deer. Period.
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That is true and so WRONG! Hunting isn't about bagging a deer every trip. In fact, these same people spend so much money on hunting that they feel that they MUST bag a deer. The instant gratification group sucks. Pure and simple sucks. I live in the middle of a very large metro-plex and I have as little time as anyone else for hunting - yet I don't for a minute feel bad if a hunting trip doesn't end with a carcass. It is the process that is important, not the body count.