but everyone I talk to says it’s stupid and I shouldn’t do it if I want to shoot limits...how do some of you go about telling the nay sayers that this is something that I want to do and this is the way I want to hunt?
ZOIKERS! There are so many points here....,
First, how do any of these people know or even suspect that you can't get your "limit" with black powder shotguns? Were they once skilled with a BP shotgun and have since abandoned their use? Did States invent season or daily limits after modern shotguns were invented and prior to that a limit wasn't needed?
Since when did an enjoyable hunt = limiting-out?
The last time I checked, it was called
"hunting" not
"getting".
:hmm:
How many of these folks who are so generous with their hunting advice are helping you with modern hunting? Have you seen these folks in the field and would you want to hunt with them?
:hmm:
For some reason you will find in the world of hunting, folks who think they have a valid opinion and position on traditional BP shotguns and rifles, after seldom or even never having used one. :youcrazy:
You will find severa sorts of people who harvest game animals. For some it's just about killing something..., and sometimes they don't even eat what they kill. They look for the most advantage with the least effort. For others it's all about the bag limit, and if they don't "limit-out" then they have had a bad day. :shocked2: Then there are those who are strictly going for the trophy..., they want the biggest buck, or hog, or turkey, or all three, and for them nothing else matters. Among these are those who consider themselves mighty hunters because they display a huge head upon their wall, harvested at 300 yards with a .338 Lapua Magnum, looking through a 12x power scope, while they sat in an elevated, enclosed and heated tower...., the buck never had a chance to discover that the hunter was there.
Now all of these folks thin the herds and flocks and gaggles, and keep the animal populations in check, and pay their fees (hopefully) and so do contribute and serve a function. So I'm not knocking them..., I simply find fault when they opine about how we hunt, when they've never tried it, while I have tried theirs. :wink:
They miss
a LOT. They miss seeing some things first hand, that otherwise they'd only see in books. They actually
cheat themselves out of a much deeper experience. They scoff even at the idea that they are missing something..., when in fact
they are harming themselves by doing so. :shake:
Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1854, more than a century and a half in the past:
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep”¦., To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts”¦, Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
So persue what you will that will give your life significance. You're only here, once.
LD
