When does it end !!!!!!!!!

[Hogtamer]

My grown sons and I were having a conversation about this one night this week and pretty much agree with Matt...in fact, I'm kinda sick of heart at what hunting has become and I've grown a lot more partial to an 80 lb pig in the big swamp than some farm grown pampered white tail with mutant antlers.  I've killed my share and ya'll are pretty much welcome to what's left.  Jeff Foxworthy used to be pretty funny, but that "Whimps of Tecomate" show is one of the best examples of what I have come to loathe about "modern" hunting.  Sorry about the rant; it's about time for me to getlost in some big woods.

[matt schuster]

Hogtamer, you are right.  I had a booth at the Buckarama in Atlanta (selling shoes, not hunting stuff) and came to the realization that, in general, I don't care for hunters all that much.   I hate to say that, but it is the truth.

[Hogtamer]

"Buckarama;" grrrrrr...maybe we can start our own club, "Misanthropic Hunter of America."  I'll call that old Greek curmudgeon Dean T.  He'll ride down here just to join and go squirrel hunting with us for a week.

[Deerhntr]

Sounds to me that the fancy wheel shooter was just a big ol' blow hard. There's plenty of those types just about everywhere you go. 80 yard BS talk!!

[Wai]

I shoot both a compound and a recurve and I'm pretty darned good with either one.  Of course, with my compound, I can shoot 3/4" groups at 20 yards, and 5" groups with my recurve at that distance.  And I only just picked up my recurve last summer.  I don't tell compounders that their equipment are "training wheels."  Neither do I tell the traditionalists that they'd get better groups if they went with a compound.  People are going to use what they're comfortable with.  I happen to be very comfortable with either one.  I'm not going to tell a crossbower that's it's wrong to use it.  They're all tools to the same ends.  If we start picking nits with each other, that's all the cue the antis will need to continue their "divide-and-conquer" strategy.  ALL of us hunters have to stick together.  Who cares who hunts with what??  I'd go out with a slingshot if I had to.  If we keep this up, we'll have hurt our sport more than the antis ever will.

[laddy]

I used to go to the public shoots, but I got moched and harrassed by shooters that cheated on their scores as a group.  that day I developed a bad flinch and distinct disrespect for the money shooters.  The next shoot was more of the same and the flinch got worse.. John Schluz suggested that I never go back to competitive events.  I have shot 18 deer in ten years since I got that advice.  I went three years in row with none because of the flinch.  I do get pushed around out the feild by compund guys with all their tree stands that never take out of public woods, they just don't like to share, with all these "advantages" maybe they should hunt with the gun hunters.  If DNR people start believing the hype it amy happen.