Thread: How Americans think we hunt

you know , i realise this isnt quite in keeping with the original post , but ......it was mentioned "not a real hunt" .........we have guys on this forum who dont have full use of their legs and cant yomp into the bush and up and down sheer cliffs , they just physically cant , .. they hunt the only way they can , .... i on the other hand have one real leg and one not so real , i can walk on flattish terrain and up some small hills ... but cant do the old bush bash like i used to , years in the army , and then hunting in the bush i loved it and would walk all day ... but now , a stand or a heli hunt or quad hunt etc , is what i hope to keep doing ... when i move to canada in a few days , i want to shoot a bear , and will be up a stand to do it ... i want to go out and shoot all sorts of shit , and it will be quad bike , or truck to get me close enough .... is it a "real hunt" ... its as real as i can do nowadays and i will take it ... i shot my first mule deer sitting in a blind where the owner of the land had been feeding the wild deer for months to get them to stop right in front of it , we waited .. the deer showed up , and i nailed a buck from 20 metres with a .50 cal muzzle loader .... now that wasnt a real hunt , ... but i still enjoyed it . ymmv




and as you can see the reason for the blind was my mates dad has fuk all mobility and likes to shoot deer still ...... thats hunting for him .

Originally Posted by stumpy

you know , i realise this isnt quite in keeping with the original post , but ......it was mentioned "not a real hunt" .........we have guys on this forum who dont have full use of their legs and cant yomp into the bush and up and down sheer cliffs , they just physically cant , .. they hunt the only way they can , .... i on the other hand have one real leg and one not so real , i can walk on flattish terrain and up some small hills ... but cant do the old bush bash like i used to , years in the army , and then hunting in the bush i loved it and would walk all day ... but now , a stand or a heli hunt or quad hunt etc , is what i hope to keep doing ... when i move to canada in a few days , i want to shoot a bear , and will be up a stand to do it ... i want to go out and shoot all sorts of shit , and it will be quad bike , or truck to get me close enough .... is it a "real hunt" ... its as real as i can do nowadays and i will take it ... i shot my first mule deer sitting in a blind where the owner of the land had been feeding the wild deer for months to get them to stop right in front of it , we waited .. the deer showed up , and i nailed a buck from 20 metres with a .50 cal muzzle loader .... now that wasnt a real hunt , ... but i still enjoyed it . ymmv
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and as you can see the reason for the blind was my mates dad has fuk all mobility and likes to shoot deer still ...... thats hunting for him .

Good on ya stumpy! I hope you smack a good one this spring! Plenty of good black bear in Saskatchewan! And definitely a "real hunt"!




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Stumpy, you and some others on this forum face genuine challenges through physical injury. The effort it takes you to get places is near impossible for someone like me to imagine. Your hunting choices and techniques are more a matter of improvisation than choice.

Now on the other hand, a fat lazy able bodied rich overseas hunter who has lived in a good paddock his entire life and wants to buy himself a world record whilst doing as little as possible to achieve it... well that's hardly comparable.

Your whitetail is 10x the trophy in my eyes.

Kj

@kimjon wasnt a dig at you mate , more an awareness that there are varibles of hunting , ... if i was able i would be out doing the hard yards , but your right in the fat lazy bastard comment , it should be renamed as trophy collecting .
cheers

Stumpy the way a lot of people hunt in Canada is tree stand, Quad or from a truck. The times I have hunted with my son in BC we have always done better driving around as the animals are used to vehicles cruising around most of the year and hunting season is no different. We found on foot they had the drop on us most of the time. Good luck with your shift to Canada. As for the rich Americans and Heli hunting etc, it does nothing for me but if that's what they want to do then so be it, we need to cater for everone