A dude with his own undiagnosed arrogance problem wrote:
This guy is just as much an enemy to hunting as the hsus and peta.
Watch em guys.
Some of the practices that certain "hunters" try to pass off as "hunting" aren't hunting at all.
Some guys out there think that if they have a tag they are guaranteed a kill--dammit.
Why don't they just rent/borrow/steal a backhoe, dig some pits in a bean field and cover the pit openings with debris? Trapdoor spiders hunt this way so it must be cool to imitate them, right?
One could still shoot survivors from the top of the pit using *any* legal caliber and have an almost guaranteed one shot kill. Spikes are always optional in a pit trap.
And the guys who pop off about buying a 4-8k ATV to fill the freezer with "cheap meat" need a lesson in economics.
Guys who want a guaranteed result with a minimum of fuss already have a place to get their meat:
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0010544610886a&type=product&cmCat=search&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&No=80&Ntt=game+meat&noImage=0&Ntk=Products&QueryText=game+meat&Ntx=matchall&N=4887&Nty=1
It's way more cost effective than a $2k lease or monthly Bombardier payments.
Just buy the head and talk about how effective the deer stand was.
http://www.macstaxidermy.com/north%20american%20big%20game.htm
$595.00 plus shipping and handling nets an eight point buck nicely mounted. You could buy roughly 14 or 15 for the price of moderately equipped 2008 Yamaha Grizzly. The lifetime of tall tales about the strains of sleeping in a tree while hunting over a carrot field are limited only by one's imagination.
Enemy of hunting? Hardly. The folks who most endanger hunting are those who make it look like shooting fish in barrel. Hunting gets banned in two usual ways: One is that population density rises too much to make it worthwhile or "safe" to the general public. Second, yahoos go on and make videos and tell stories that portray hunting as an "effort" where some dude in a tree blows away his buck in a hungry herd of thirty or so animals from 60 yards away with a .300 WSM, a "hunt" that took about three hours and looks/sounds as challenging as corraling the buck and shooting him from the fence.
Cougar and bear hunting with dogs was banned in Oregon by popular vote because
hunters themselves had made numerous videos that made it look as easy as loosing some radio collared dogs and then showing up on foot or horseback to the appropriate tree and making a [sarc]tremendously difficult 35 to 40 foot shot.[/sarc]
Certainly there is a lot of effort in the proper training and care of the dogs and it takes some measure of skill to show up timely at the right tree to humanely take the animal, but it certainly never looks like a "fair" match-up.
IOW, it was banned because it appeared to be unsporting.
Barely ethical practices vigorously defended beyond all reason endanger hunting far more than my distaste for making it "too easy" does. I won't agitate against tree stands, someone whose knowledge of hunting is limited to seeing
Bambi will.
There is a joke out there centered on Mr. Norris that goes like this:
Chuck Norris doesn't go hunting because hunting implies failure. Chuck Norris goes
killing.
Killing the wildlife (and making it look too easy in the bargain) will animate the HSUS and PETA, not me.
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