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Older mounts have a certain appeal to me... we have some hanging in our adirondack camp.. all raggedy and smoke stained.. I always liked them.. kinda like having an antique in the camp.. and they are OLD!! lol

Not about caring its about having an opinion about that type of hunting... they certainly can do what they like if it's legal, I don't have to like it or think it's hunting and I don't. Just because you play video hunting games doesn't mean you're hunting.

Leave the chainsaw home...lol

Let's face it... none of these shows actually show anyone "hunting" .... lots of sitting around ... not really much hunting... someone picks out their "treehouse", buys their clothes, grows and feeds their deer, guts the deer for them, and processes their deer... I'm not seeing the traditional hunting part at all.

Not really.. just small walls that can only fit so many heads..lol.. I do lease some farm land and I hunt the adirondacks.. but nothing special.

I think its a safety thing about ricochet's skipping across the water

Oh no.. and they have the curled up noses too... yikes!

I think he meant QDM not QDMA... one is an idea the other an organization.

UH YEAH? I think he qualifies as big and Ole!!!

LOL.. just don't have room on the wall anymore.. they're headed for camp when I get the inside of the camp finished... they are in a big open wooden box with tines sticking out all over the place... I say big but they are mostly 110 - 120 class bucks.. I guess thats big to some

exactly +1

You don't have to agree.. every hunter has their own reason for hunting...Unlike many hunters I no longer shoot any buck that I am not actively hunting... I have walls and boxes full of big bucks... it is way more about the story than just killing any old buck for me now days.... I have let several big bucks walk because they would have just been a kill with no story... I no longer have a need to just kill a buck... that is no longer part of the challenge for me. I is all about the pursuit.

Believe me Doc, I'm not all vim and vigor anymore after a day of hunting like I use to be either...lol Especially in the deeper snow... acting like 25 year old and feeling like one are two very different things..lol

Yeah, as one gets older getting up that early to hunt just doesn't sound like a good idea...

I don't have that "got to kill a deer at all costs" attitude... when I'm done hunting, I'm done hunting... tomorrow is another day. If I'm hunting all day I will usually reach my car and be on my way with only a few minutes of legal shooting time left. I would not just stand against a tree for the last few minutes... because for me its more about the adventure... I am all about having a good "hunting" story to tell about the bucks I get... one that takes a couple pages to write down... or quite a few minutes to tell. Standing by a tree and killing a last minute deer is not a story.. its a sentence. If I was worried only about filling my tags... I could fill them all the first couple days of each season... that's just not exciting to me.

Not joking at all... don't need to be in the woods until I can kill a deer and don't need to stay if I can't.... why drive myself crazy and have a nice buck walk in front of me before or after shooting time and not be able to kill him... I'm not a stand hunter so there is no need to get in early... I am hunting as soon as I leave my truck until the time I return to it... and NEVER have to worry about whether it's legal shooting time or not... well, unless my watch were to stop.

Retire from hunting? What is that? I don't understand those words... I might limit going up and kissing a deer on the lips before making sure he's quite dead.. but not retire..lol

That is one good tatoo artist!! Would like to know who did it.

Frustration in hunting is not usually caused because of the rules.. more because of most hunters lack of ability to put a deer in front of them.. I promise you that if you are not being successful it is something that you are doing that needs to be either better learned, improved upon, or changed. The rules are there to make the playing field level for all involved.. including the deer. Just because there are some that don't follow the rules doesn't necessarily mean that the rules are bad. Blaming anything other than your own hunting ability for non-sucess will usually only get you more non-sucess. I know hunters that only hunt 1-2 days a year and are baffled at why they don't see more deer...

Just after legal shooting time and leave just before

I'm pretty sure dead is dead..

Thats a great 8 Sam.. way to go!!

Exactly Doc... How am I to know if this particular hunter isn't one of the many that aren't safe? I don't.. and no hunter should take the chance when it comes to the safety of others in the area..period

I think you know what I mean... and so does everyone else. Anyone hunting where I can see him from my back window is too close in my opinion... there are millions of acres to hunt in NYS and nobody should have to encounter a hunter out the back door of their home. Especially if he has "other places to hunt". There are some out there that think that hunting 501 feet from my back door is okay.. it may be legal but it certainly is not okay in my book. With a bow okay.. with a gun.. absolutely not!