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Teal, i respect ALL hunters. I personally wouldnt want to hunt like that. I tried it. It didnt work for me then, and it was all i could do to sit still and try to remain interested. I respect that people make it work for them and that it works. Many people post trail cam pics and talk of age of the deer and such. Here, in my location, its not about that. Its about killing a buck.

For you, it may be different, and i respect that. If a guy has 25 12 hour days to hunt, i am jealous as hell. I dont get to hunt anywhere near that much.

I just mean the vicious attacks on a man's character based on what he asks and other such topics. I use my dislike for stand hunting as an example and nothing else.

I ain't fighting anyone to the death over a difference of opinion.

Me either, but the right to HAVE one other than another's.

I noticed that, too....in the OP. EVERYBODY would be dead if they thought like that. But I think I got his meaning.

It's an example of all the blowhardedness here lately. Suddenly it's cool to complain about how there are no threads of substance (while not bothering to start one) and how everybody nowadays is so mean to each other (while commenting on how you just don't think other guys are as hardcore as you).

The Fire might not be as friendly, but it makes up for it in hypocrisy.

Only when trying to cheat at Scrabble.

THIS!

All I know is I just poured my first whiskey and coke....and somebody is going to get his azz ripped tonight! Dammit!

Which brings up another point.....Anybody else dismiss more late at night and especially late at night on the weekends because you know that guy is probably drinking?? What really disturbs me is when I see that kind of schitt going on in the morning on a weekday and I can be pretty sure they're sober.

I'm a happy drunk but a terrible morning person. Screw you for judging me.

Blue, i have to admit, i am surprised at your responses here. I never had any intention of trying to sound "harder core" than anyone else, i used tree stand hunting as an example of my personal opinion on a topic, and many attack me on it and call me "shallow douche bag" ?

I used an example. Reflecting my own personal opinion on a topic. This was not an attack on anyone. Simply my take on a subject.

Strangely, i have asked many questions in the AR forum where one might consider me to be a total imbecile. YOU have been a consummate gentleman in your responses, and i thank you for it. Here, in this thread though, i cant see your point. Many members here have called me worse than retarded, and i am still trying my best to make myself better. I work hard at being a better person. I hope that many here will stop attacking others based on their personal opinions.

Its not right. I can respectfully disagree, but i will not be calling you any names over it.

Oh the arguments I could start if I could type with more than two fingers.

The time it takes to write a post doesn't make it worth it.

For the record I had a JD(double) and green tea earlier.


Pretty frikken manly drink.


Thought it was glass of water and poured some whiskey in it, took a swig and damn.....WTF is that?!

You do what works for the area you're hunting. Come down south and hunt like you do in Oregon and you'll be wasting your time, the deer will dive into thickets and you'll never see them as you walk all over the woods. Likewise if I came to Oregon and hunted the way I do down south I'd probably be wasting my time. The problem is that people can't seem to get it through their heads that the way they do things in their area doesn't work everywhere else. There's a lot of the attitude of "those stupid lazy southerners don't know how to hunt because they hunt out of treestands" exhibited on the 'fire by many of the western hunters and it gets old. The statement of "No, they sat on their azz and shot deer they knew would be there" shows just such an attitude and lack of knowledge. Nobody down here "knows" where a given deer will be, it doesn't work that way with our whitetails. We hunt that way because that's what works. A friend of mine killed a B&C buck that had been living on his land all his life as evidenced by his yearly sheds and that buck had never been seen until the day my friend killed him, the buck was 6.5 years old and had been living within shouting distance of his house the whole time. For the most part our deer are nocturnal, your best chance is when they slip up during the rut. Thinking that you're going to pattern a big buck off of a game camera in Mississippi well enough to get a shot in daylight is extremely naive.

Sam;
Speaking of why..... I'm glad to read you mistook the green tea for water.

That said, as of late I've been experimenting with adding warm, filtered drinking water - enough to reduce the alcohol content to roughly 30% or so and have found it's easier to taste the nuances in flavor.

Incidentally I learned that from a Master Distiller chap on a Scotch imbibing site and as far as I could ascertain he wasn't kidding????

Now to be clear, in the spirit of the thread I'll defend your right to mix corn liquor with green tea, but may not join you in that lifestyle choice .....

Merry Christmas Sam - it's always nice to exchange pleasantries with you my cyber friend.

Dwayne

Give it a name and sell the idea to an upscale restaurant franchise to be used in their bar.

Because I have 40 acres to hunt for white tailed deer. No baiting allowed in MN (which I am happy about) and running around in circles on my 40 acres would be much less productive for me, although probably would make my neighbors happy.

I don't use game cams on the property I hunt though.




Smartass reply aside, I have still-hunted several decent deer on my property, but conditions usually don't make that a viable option.

Dwayne, it was an honest mistake. No self-respecting man would purposefully dump whiskey in green tea!


add, it actually wasn't bad. Told my wife it's a health drink!

You are right. Years ago i started a thread about stand hunting. It was a slaughter on me.

I learned a lot from that thread. I was using that as an example of what i learned. I know that the time of year, rut conditions, wind, leaves on the tree, deer movement, or total lack thereof, and many other factors add up to a successful hunt from a tree.

I simply do what works for me, and as i said before, i know i made many mistakes that lead people to think little of me, but i am moving on with myself.

I just want to ask questions without people bashing, and state my own experiences without the crapstorm that follows on many threads. Mickey was a true gentleman, and i hope to be more like him.