Thread: Interesting Trend

The original post sounds much too possessive of public land for my comfort. If you have a secret spot then you are lucky, if you have a secret spot that someone else discovers and then tells other people, then you are unlucky.
Complaining about them and making out they have wronged you just makes you sound, well, a bit whiney.

I have heard the same complaint leveled at people who write magazine articles, and I thought the same thing then too.

AS for people visiting your spots after you showed them....thats human nature. Why did you show it to them if you minded them going back without you? It was a gift of a hunting spot. The purest gift there is between men

However, what is wrong, is them coming back with their mates. That is a personal affront and an abuse of your generosity.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

The original post sounds much too possessive of public land for my comfort. If you have a secret spot then you are lucky, if you have a secret spot that someone else discovers and then tells other people, then you are unlucky.
Complaining about them and making out they have wronged you just makes you sound, well, a bit whiney.

I have heard the same complaint leveled at people who write magazine articles, and I thought the same thing then too.

AS for people visiting your spots after you showed them....thats human nature. Why did you show it to them if you minded them going back without you? It was a gift of a hunting spot. The purest gift there is between men

However, what is wrong, is them coming back with their mates. That is a personal affront and an abuse of your generosity.

@Carlsen Highway no not possessive of public land nor do I have a secret spot (only the odd one but know it is others also) just very perplexed at the detail people are putting in really, don't worry me where as you still have to know how to hunt it. I have 1 spot that is very popular to the point you almost need to book it, it produces animals if you know how to hunt it. I gets popular when people now you are getting loads of deer out and then less popular when they are unsuccessful.

Was just a generalisation in the current generational trend and wondered if there maybe a link

As you were peeps

Hamish

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Originally Posted by HNTMAD

@Carlsen Highway no not possessive of public land nor do I have a secret spot (only the odd one but know it is others also) just very perplexed at the detail people are putting in really, don't worry me where as you still have to know how to hunt it. I have 1 spot that is very popular to the point you almost need to book it, it produces animals if you know how to hunt it. I gets popular when people now you are getting loads of deer out and then less popular when they are unsuccessful.

Was just a generalisation in the current generational trend and wondered if there maybe a link

As you were peeps

Hamish

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Ah, ok.
But in that case, now I am not sure what the problem is. Whats wrong with people being specific about where they are hunting? Far better than the old "ünnamed" river, "somewhere". Places are important. They are as important as what you do in them.

I shall retire to meditate on this.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

The original post sounds much too possessive of public land for my comfort. If you have a secret spot then you are lucky, if you have a secret spot that someone else discovers and then tells other people, then you are unlucky.
Complaining about them and making out they have wronged you just makes you sound, well, a bit whiney.

I have heard the same complaint leveled at people who write magazine articles, and I thought the same thing then too.

AS for people visiting your spots after you showed them....thats human nature. Why did you show it to them if you minded them going back without you? It was a gift of a hunting spot. The purest gift there is between men

However, what is wrong, is them coming back with their mates. That is a personal affront and an abuse of your generosity.

You comments re human nature and sharing a resource are absolutely true. But of course its not quite that simple.
Theres a flip side to sharing a resource and that would be thinking about other users (am I giving out someone elses spot when I post it on the internet) and the resource itself (do i care if Im increasing the taking of velvet stags for example).
So if you are giving out specific advice to randoms - caring about other people getting to hunt an area or to feel better about your awesomenss as a hunter, you actually can be seen to be not giving a shit about other randoms that hunt there, or the animal population dynamic/trophy potential yadayada. Are you actually being altruistic?
Those other randoms dont get a say when someone gobs off on the internet.