Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How do you measure, Toughness"?

All I can say is this nation is fooked with the current 20 something work force and beyond and many in there early 30s god help our country

It means that it often hurts at first, but pays off in the end.

Good, that's what I thought.

People that don’t give up.

Oh no wait, dudes that hide behind computer screens and talk trash. Sarcasm. I had to add the sarcasm because the tough guys wouldn’t get it. LOL

Over coming your basic instinct of fear and keeping it under control as needed.
If you lose fear completely, you become reckless and a danger to others at times.
Not f u c king giving up or quitting in physically or mentally hard situations.
Doing the hard right over the easy wrong, no matter what others think.

I have a buddy who goes on solo backpack hunts in Alaska for 3 to 5 weeks at a time, sometimes walking 30 or more miles from his truck or airstrip to “camp”. Sounds romantic and he always has a blast but I don’t think everyone is cut out to be alone in the bush that long.

Good discription .
Kenneth

The toughest man I ever met was my Alaskan Grizzly guide Harley McMahon.
Bush pilot, wolfer, guide, trapper.
He once crashed his Super Cub and walked out of the wilderness with a broken ankle and jaw.
He was about 50 when I hunted with him, I was 36....it was humbling as to his physical and mental toughness in extremeley harsh conditions...his exploits are the stuff of legends.
There is a book written about his father Cleo, that apple didn't fall far from the tree.

If you ever want a fantastic read, that book is amazing.
An Alaskan pioneer.
Polar bear hunting, aerial wolf hunting, trapping, grizzly hunting, sheep hunting....all back when Alaska was a much wilder place.
One of the best books I've read.

[quote=deflave]wabigoon is a fugking retard.

[You'd better look at yourself in the mirror.

Toughness comes from the heart.

Cool that you hunted with Harley. I visited with him for a few minutes on the lake shore one afternoon when he dropped off a guy he was transporting, seemed like a nice guy. I spent lots of time out around Glenallen and there were lots of cool stories from the older guys about Cleo’s exploits. Used to drive buy his place but never met him.