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For me it's elk.

I always maintain, that wonderful All-Natural, Organic, Grass Fed, Non-GMO, Hormone Free Meat is the most expensive on the planet!

I could sell my crap, "re-outfit" myself from Walmart and not want for much....

Serious hunter? All I can tell you is the few times I've been talked into to playing golf I've spent the day thinking "If only I was carrying a rifle instead of this damned golf bag this would be worthwhile."
Eat, sleep, shoot stuff, repeat.

16bore,

That's a fun argument.

If you're a serious hunter you have to have a strong social media game. Facebook alone isn't enough and Instagram is a must. You need to be proficient with hashtags and use phrases like "liveforit" and "keephammering" a lot. You need to be able to listen to rap music, wear true religion jeans and flat brimmed hats and a Mohawk or some kind of hair coloring helps to set you apart and let people know that you're "more serious" than the rest. You don't really need to kill anything and you can kill small animals and then hashtag stuff like "organic" and "feedthefamily" because that kind of stuff is important. Don't forget to jump right into shed hunting. Only serious hunters brave waist deep snow when animals are at their most vulnerable to go try to find a dropped antler

Awesome....

A-phuqqing-men.


Don't forget the energy drink and the antlers-on-my-back-vast-landscape-selfie. You know, the far away Marlbo man look. Then throw in the chicks and their shrink it and pink it camo.

And don't forget to shave your balls before the season starts.

Even this Texican knows a serious hunter when he hunts with one!





no snow,



but, I'd drive another thousand miles tomorrow to do it again...........

ya!

GWB

Bob from NH nailed it for me..

Still working on that one!

I almost chit my pants laughing when I read 16Bore wrote "dont forget to shave your balls before season".........Lmfao!!!.......Hb

I forgot to add that you can absolutely tell how serious one is by the number of stickers on the persons vehicle. The more stickers they have the more serious they are but that goes without saying. You cannot be considered serious unless you are a member of a "pro staff". Some of you guys might think that the pro stands for promotional but you're WRONG! The Pro stands for professional and don't you guys forget that! Some serious hunters also take supplements like Mtn Ops and they automatically qualify as "professional athletes" now. The list is long my friends, you boys just thought y'all were serious.....

What is a serious hunter? Looking at the threads I guess you could say this escalated quickly (without the usual photo). Seriously I would like to think ~30% of the readers here on the fire fit that category, the rest are here to learn, some actually convey knowledge.......then you have the final group that you fit into the category of dicks.

#LMAO

Not sure what is considered a "serious" hunter, but I once knew this guy, we'll call him Jim. He came from Idaho, along with other folks from all over 24hourcampfire to hunt elk in Oregon.
He hunted as hard as anyone in camp but about the third day it snowed so darned hard we all had to adjourn to camp for a while as hunting was just out of the question. Like most guys in camp that year, when we weren't hunting we were talking about hunting. I think it was about 5 degrees out that day and we were huddled under my trailer awning talking hunting and generally trying not to get completely covered up in snow.( I think 2 feet fell that day and the wind blew hard enough to break the tops out of big pine trees)

So, this fella Jim is so engrossed in talking hunting and telling stories that he didn't even notice that the heater had set his brand new wool hunting pants on fire -while he was wearing them. Well, we got the fire put out and he went right back to telling stories and BS'ng just like nothing ever happened.

Sounds like a serious hunter to me........

Bob

some serious hunters on the eve of opening day!



getting ready for the evening festivities

The guy with the crown had just been insatlled as the "puzzy phaggot" for that year.


ya!


GWB

Well Sam Olson, I paid $10,500 for 2 rifles once, about I975 or thereabout.
A "Jefferson" (custom?) .270 built on a M98 action. Nice wood, tack driver. And a factory standard 700 in .243. Never shot all that good. But adequate.

I did get 4 plus (depends on river level) acres of land, boat and motor, buncha hand and power tools, two chain saws, and a half built cabin with stove, bed, bookshelf, and cooking gear in it thrown in for free....

Coincidently enough, both rifles are here in Kotzebue with me, tho the 98 has a different barrel and scope on it now, and the .243 has a self built custom replacement stock currently undergoing minor surgery after 37 years of hard hunting.

Those are my expensive ones1.

Gentlemen,
When I used the phrase "serious hunter" I was thinking of someone who spends more time and money planning and going hunting than spending time and money amassing lots of rifles.

One really good hunting rifle chambered for the right cartridge will do most everything. I always chuckle at the guys who are building 375's and bigger for hunts they will never make. I suspect this is the case with guys who have a rifle in every bore size. It is a fine hobby to be rifle accumulators and assemblers but I haven't met any who do both.

Once I looked in my safe and counted parts for 26 builds. I sold everything and started going. That said, I still fool around with rifles but never have more than 3 or 4. One goes before I get another. Right now I have 2 hunting rifles.

I had a 7 RM, one of Echols Legend models. It was reliable and well built. No drama. I let a guy have it who wanted one. Shouldn't have sold it.

I had less in it than the fellas who have 5 or more safe queens. And it got taken everywhere.

Your thoughts, our bow season starts the first weekend in October. Our rifle season ends the first Sunday in January. IIRC, either I was in transit to and from my lease or "afield" forty days during that period (approx 90 days). Would that be considered serious???

GWB