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zenmonkeyman:
I watched a hunting show online last night.  It was a bowhunt for mulies.  It ended with the hunter ranging a mulie at 70 yards with his rangefinder, and making the shot with his 330fps wheelie bow.  Then he exults about how great it is to harvest a mulie with a bow, and what a feat it is.

Apparently there are guys who can shoot tighter groups at 100yds with their contraptions than I currently can at 10 yds with my stick.  Is it just me, or have bows been turned into muzzleloaders?  Nevermind, muzzleloaders have been turned into rifles, too.

I just think it's sad that we start off these hunts wanting more challenge, more tradition, more closeness with nature, and end up perverting the whole works.  Like everything else in this world, hunting has been turned primarily into shopping for newerbetterfastersexier toys -- with money we don't have.  It makes me laugh/cry to hear people say they're hunting "primitive" when they're not doing anything of the sort...  There's no flint on their muzzleloaders, and there's no black powder pushing projectiles that aren't lead balls, down barrels that aren't smoothbore blue steel, anchored to stocks that aren't wood.

Same thing of course for archery.

Did you hear about the website that has a webcam attached to a riflescope that you can aim with your mouse and shoot a deer with a click, and then they mail you your mounted head and the meat?  For a fee of course.  Paypal accepted!  Hunting in the 21st century.
 
I wonder how many people in the US or Canada can say they feed themselves even one meal a year that had fruit and vegetables grown and harvested themselves and meat they raised or hunted, or fish they caught.   I wonder how many have ever considered how they might feed their families if they suddenly couldn't pull into the supermarket parking lot anymore.  Worse yet, those that could do it would be attacked by those who couldn't.

Sorry for the rambling!  Thanks for sticking with me this far!  Hope I didn't offend anyone, just musing, not attacking.

JW_Halverson:
I know how you feel, I quit watching ALL HornPorn a couple years ago.  Since when is hunting and fishing a spectator's sport?  Yeah, of course I celebrate with a hunting buddy when he tags out, but I was there with him. 

I build the bows I hunt with, I built the flintlock I hunt with, and my roto-tiller died so my tomatoes are raised thanks to a shovel.  I do it this way because it feels soo good deep down.  How do we get this across to the rest of the world? 

How about we adopt the concept of "each one teach one"?  Kinda like what happens down at Pappy's place.  That place needs to be cloned, I tell ya.

skyarrow:
Amen to that  ;D

huntertrapper:
I know man it aint right. these guys now adays just go to the woods for one thing, the horn and kill. they dont respect the animal or how it got there or what it WILL do for them. no respect.

aero86:
i just like making and shooting all my own stuff.  its a wonderfull thing when i know i can walk into home depot, and walk out knowing that with that board and garden stakes, i can take it hunting.

and one of these days, ill see a rabbit and take it!  for once!  and everything will have fallen into place

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