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I see the internet badasses are still struggling for significance. Rick is brilliant for letting it go on though...it gives them a place to go, away from the grownups.

Nothing would surprise me. I'm sure there are guys out there who have used only muzzle loaders, and I'm sure there are guys who wouldn't use anything but a 14-pound tacti-cool with a 20x FFP mil/mil scope. Different strokes for different folks.

Is a Texas Batman similar to Special Olympics Batman?

As I posted earlier, I don't put out corn, because it's a waste of my money to do so here. There's just too much other food for the deer to eat, and I've never seen a benefit. If I lived somewhere else, I might think differently about it.

As far as other things go, we all have our likes and dislikes. I prefer hunting with a bolt action rifle, others like levers, pumps, or AR's.......and I've used all of those at one time or another. I used to bow hunt, and killed several deer with a bow, but don't hunt now because of shoulder problems. Personally, I think bow hunters lose a lot of the deer that they shoot, and don't admit to it. I also can't get real excited about hunting with a muzzleloader, as it's gone from the primitive kind of hunting that it once was, to using rifles that do not fit the muzzleloader/black powder definition IMO. I'll admit that I had more fun hunting with my open sighted Hawken style rifle, as I do my scoped black powder rifle that will shoot accurately out to 200 yards.

Also, it's the same way with deer stands. I built the first tree stand in my part of the country when I was a 15 year old kid. Nobody around here had heard of anyone nailing planks to a tree in order to sit in and wait for a deer to come by. I went from that to using the climbing stands, where if you let that climber slide off your feet, you were left hanging to that tree......and I know how it felt. I went from building ladder stands out of wood, so heavy it took a tractor to move it into location, to using the lightweight metal ones today. These days, I mostly hunt out of my elevated shooting house, totally enclosed, and have a propane heater to keep warm. I have froze my azz off enough, and don't have a desire to sit out in a tree, in the wet and cold......but I have, many, many times.

While I was once all about killing something, I've reached a stage in my life when it's more important to me for the grandkids to do the shooting, with me just along for the ride. That's just me, others may see it differently. But, I don't think you should knock another guy's method, as long as they're legal. Yes, some of it may be unethical, and sooner or later, it'll catch up with him, and he'll have to pay the price, it usually does. The best thing is to just do what you think is best for you, and don't worry about the other guy.

I like to bow hunt, I’m beginning to feel bad for hunting by my feeders.

your compadre Dan Adair is a good guy to hang with.

still get a kick out of the monotone cadence of the accent though.

He out givin' free BJ's again?

Like we would really give a rats behind. Lucky us.

Jim

I am disappointed in you flave. I expected more.

Jim

This would be humorous, if it wasn't just downright sad. We are our own worst enemy...

really sad grown men argue over this chit...

Yep and yep.

That's been my point all along.

Very Sad indeed, ruined a good thread

I've said all along: during the upcoming CWII a firefight will falter because our side stands up to start arguing about beans/or not for the chili supper that night.

LOL.

Jim

Pffftt.

I've been hearing that since I was 15.

I feel blessed that we have our own land in the family for hunting. Gives a place for my father, myself and my kids to go and hunt. I try to take out some new hunters every year, just to get them into the sport and interested.

Sheee it. I knew there was something wrong. I did, in a fit of forgetfullness that after 3 pages we just skip to the last page and post whatever we want anyhow.

OH, nice pig Ken!!

So, to define:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Hunting+definition&t=ffsb&ia=definition

Lots of definitions there, all over the place. One of them references the Brits, apparently some of whom consider hunting to be the chasing of foxes and such with dogs and horses. Killing game with guns is called shooting in some circles there.

I've sat/stood in a tree stand watching trails in NW PA, it wasn't fun and it was downright cold one morning, even with an insulated suit and pac boots on.
I've sat alongside logs/rocks watching trails and it was about as much fun as the ones in PA. I've sat watching waterholes in the desert SW too.

I'd likely have been diagnosed with ADD or some sh--t when I was kid, but that didn't happen then. I have a hard time sitting for hours anywhere and keeping concentration. So I mostly still hunt, or stop and glass for a bit. After an hour of that stuff, without seeing much, I'm going for a walk.

Now, If I was invited to a hunt in TX out of a box blind over the mesquite thickets, I'd probably take someone up on it..............assuming that if I didn't see anything after a while, even a pig or cull buck, I might have to go on a walkabout and check out the scenery, look for tracks, birds, javelina, snakes and coatis.

Everyone "hunt" they way they want, as long as you're not in a 1/2 acre enclosure with a high fence stocked with the "game animal" of the day. I believe in fair chase, and if you're hunting from a blind and the critters can decide not to walk in front of your porthole, so be it.

Geno

PS what the heck is with this language problem we have here. Sit and set are two different words. I set crap on a table, I set up a stand or blind. I sit in a chair or I sit and watch for deer. Criminy, y'all needs t' lern t' speek.

Feeder goes off at 6:30, we’ll be there at 6:00. Succefully “hunted” that sob at 6:35.

High fives all around. Lol...