Why so little interest in hunting on the forum?

[25elk]

I'm pretty far down in this thread to add anything dramatically new as it has mostly been adequately covered. I think there could also be a goodly number of 'older' members here that are more conscious of the ethical considerations involved in hunting. Also, it is more and more difficult to find a good safe place to hunt. After all, not too many of us are able to step into the back forty any more, on Thanksgiving morning, and knock down a brace of pheasant to cook for dinner. In addition to the convenience aspect, I don't need the meat now like when I was raising a family forty years ago, living in the high country in Colorado. An elk and a mule deer every year were a necessity back then, with a decent number of them being harvested in the back hay meadow; now a hunt for either species is an expensive proposition and my wife prefers a sunny beach to a horse ride at twenty below. So the whole hunting thing is gradually reduced to..."what's the point". I do belong to some other hunting oriented sites and you may PM me if you desire, but I must say that some of the threads I find to be rather crude and tasteless and I don't really participate in them any more.

 

[diamonback68]

I've been here for 10 years myself Dick,and I think you are wrong in that assumption.
f.t.

If they were, they sure didn't post much about it. Especially prior to the advent of the AR15 popularity. Just my opinion or maybe I just hung out on the handgun posts mainly.

 

[Harrison]

I used to hunt, but the cost of a lease in Texas has gotten so high that I cannot justify the expense. I can keep my family in prime beef, for years, for what it costs to harvest a deer that field dresses out at less than 100#. Let the rich people do the hunting.

 

[Arik]

A few reasons for me.

1. It bores me! In SE Pa there is plenty of deer until deer season then they all hide under a rock and watch people walk around the woods like zombies trying to find them. If one of the deer didn't get the yearly memo or forgot about it he would have 30 bullet holes in him from rabid hunters looking to bag something that remotely resembles a deer. So one ends up sitting in a tree for a day or two picking his nose and flinging boogies for entertainment. Or maybe they just all got hit by cars in the season between deer season.

2. I have hunted and have killed animals for food. I concluded that i like nature with living things. Im not so hungry or live so remotely that i must rely on hunting to feed myself. I can buy my meat.

3. To get to any kind of serious land/woods/forrest i have to drive at least an hour and pay tolls. When adding the lack of deer + the amount of hunters + at least a 2hr round trip + toll on said trip = forget about it.

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[Xfuzz]

I'm an avid hunter/outdoors type here in Texas.
Deer hunting in Texas is big business and as one poster stated..most
all land is private.

I pay for my lease here in East Texas. Lease fee includes 4 deer all
the pigs, yotes,cats you want. I gladly pay $1000.00.
It is a year round lease with great campground for our campers.
The campground may have anything from a popup pull trailer to a
$400k motor coach.
As one of the manager's I have one section of land(6500acs) to roam and supervise roughly 16-18 hunters.

Just yesterday I received a call from my old lease manager for an
open spot on thier lease about 100 miles West of San Antonio.
Ranch house, elec. water...loads of deer, turkey and exotics.
I got on in a blink.

Past two seasons I've gone back to huntin the old way.
NO scopes...and I use a Winchester 94 in 30-30 or a S&W mod 29.
Nothing like it.
Looking forward to this season with having the options of two
totally different sections of Texas to hunt.

I will continue to hunt/camp til I can't.

FT...make a Texas trip and I can put of some hogs the size
of a small car. Yotes big as wolves, Bobcats bigger than tigers....
Hey, it's Texas had to add that.

 

[Big Fred]

I've always enjoyed hunting, small game, turkey, and deer. But in the past 6 years I've only hunted deer twice. The old farm where I hunted since the age of 12, I'm 56 now, was sold and the new owner had his own friends that he wanted to hunt there so that kinda pushed us out. I can understand that, things change.

Around the area I live it is mostly farms and ALL are posted, you are either a relative or pay. I do belong to a private hunting club that has 230 acres right across the road from me and I hunted there twice. With a hundred members, although not all hunt there, there is still too many hunters there for my safety. I joined more for the use of the range. Most of the time I have the range to myself.

I have traveled to WV to hunt deer on a friends farm many times in the past, but with the costs of licenses, gas, ect. it is a lot cheaper to just buy a few beef tender loins and rib eyes to cut and put in the freezer.

I do really miss the old times and friends that hunted together on the old farm, wish somehow I could bring those times back.

 

[kwselke]

And then there's the story of the quickest duck hunt I was ever on. It was drought year and the only water around was on the river. My buddy and I took his Gator to within 200 yards of the river and walked in and took up positions under trees on the river bank five minutes before legal shooting time. Wood Ducks were flying back and forth up and down the river. Two minutes after shooting time I fired one shot and a drake crashes in the river. Doc the Chocolate Lab retrieves it. A minute later, my buddy fires and Doc is back in the water for his second retrieve of the morning. As soon as the dog was back a hen comes right down the same line my first bird took. One more shot and Doc is back in the water. As soon as Doc is back with the third bird, my buddy fires his second shot. Doc did not get to retrieve the forth bird downed because it landed in a bush. The only thing flying were Wood Ducks and there was a limit of two per hunter, so we headed back to the Gator. Total time from leaving the Gator and returning with a limit was 15 minutes. The beauty of taxidermy is not just in the animals themselves, but in the stories about the hunt.

 

[ladder13]

I wouldn't live anywhere that you can't hunt.

 

[joeintexas]

In my younger days I never missed a hunt, be it either deer, elk, pheasant, quail, duck, goose, you name it. Still have the H&H 300 mag but it doesn't get much use anymore. Today all I hunt is broccoli at the grocery store and try to track down some 45 acp from time to time. But, like you, I do enjoy a good hunting story.

 

[woodsltc]

I wouldn't live anywhere that you can't hunt.

My sentiments exactly.....FT, anytime you want to talk hunting I'm with you.

Don

 

[joeintexas]

Oh yeah, and by the way, the worst shooting gun I ever owned was a s&w 12 gauge, I couldn't the broad side of a barn with it. Model 1000 if memory serves.

 

[Smitty357]

I went hunting with my converted to Shield 9mm yesterday. And i must say those water moccasins will go to sleep quick.

 

[ladder13]

My sentiments exactly.....FT, anytime you want to talk hunting I'm with you.

Don

Me too...although Bobby's grandson is more successful than I.

 

[keith44spl]

If'n I happen across a turkey while check the stock.....

Any y'all got a good recipe for fryin one in a skillet?

Maybe with sum fried taters, cream gravy and hot homemade biscuits.


Tried to get a shot at a hog last week....No luck there, maybe next time.



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[don5]

I am here in WVA. Believe me when I say hunting is very big here. Our schools shut down for the first week of gun season. I own a small piece of property-45 acres. I mostly hunt down at my mother in laws farm. She likes to see me and my son during the season. She has 80 acres and we hunt on an adjoining farm that has 300 acres. We hunt deer and squirrel. I shot my first deer in 5 years last year. The reason is that I let my son do the shooting. He needs the practice plus I enjoy his excitement. I am in the final stage of hunting. I am content not to shoot anything. I enjoy watching the animals, my son hunting and shooting. To give you an idea of how I hunt. We start before daylight. We hunt in the woods not from a shooting house. I told my son that if the deer are getting wet so are we. I have taught my son to read terrain, watch the wind, watch the sun, how to walk in the woods and when to walk and when to stay still. We also hunt squirrels with a 22. We never use a shotgun. My son is a very good shot as well as a good hunter. Oh- we seldom go in for lunch too. We carry everything we need and nothing we don't. And folks that is how I hunt in WVA. I make no apologies and I respect my quarry. I told my son that the greatest sign of respect he give an animal is to make the first shot count and put the animal down cleanly. My son is 13 and a very good shot. If he goes in the service, he will do well and they will be glad to have him. Yes, I am proud. BTW- he has 9 guns-including 2 AR15s and a 1522, a safe, lifetime hunting license, and a NRA life membership.

 

[Old Seabee]

Hunting

FT I have property in Ohio hunt all season bow gun , also gun hunt in Mo with old Vietnam buddy who leases 250 acres . That being said it bothers me to buy meat when there is a sighn above it saying it is predominatly raised in the US , I don't like hi milage beef . My version thanks for post OldSeabee

 

[Fishslayer]

I think it's simply because, just like Smith&Wesson, we are handgun people. Most of us don't go hunting with handguns.

^^^ This. The only hunting I do is for a parking spot at Stater Bros. The meat's cheaper and I don't have to get up early.

 

[weatherby]

I've been here for 10 years myself Dick,and I think you are wrong in that assumption.
f.t.

I'm here I hunt and many others here do too.

You will see a post from me hopefully in September.
But for now here is the hunting implement that will be used for bear

I'm taking this one out for squirrel this fall

No I'm not going to bait them with those acorns if that is what you are thinking

 

[deanodog]

Hunting is very good for states revenue and game management and gives some hunters a high to enter the woods. I have property that contains game of different types that I could use but I don't hunt. I love animals and don't think it is my place to end an animal's life. I support anyone who does hunt but it is not for everyone. I fish but use catch (maybe) and release.
Different strokes for different folks.

 

[kamloops67]

do you eat feril hogs, are they like wild boars? or are they like coyotes, leave em where they land?
just curious, as we dont have them around here..
had a friend that raised wild boars, coarse meat kinda like bear but very flavourful. mmmmmm pork roast.