Thread: Taking the Hunt out of Hunting.

Earlier I used to watch a lot of hunting videos and subscribed to many YouTube hunting channels as well, but I find myself watching them less and less.
Specially American ones where they often have names on all their bucks and way to often shoot crap shots, no matter if it is with bows or guns.
Calling it a great shot when they liver and/or gut shoot the animal and wait for many hours before they try to find their deer...
In my opinion has the American hunting industry ruined a lot when it comes to hunting.

When I hunt and kill an animal I either say that I shot it or I killed it.
To me using the word "harvest" feels extremely unnatural.

I am a single father of two teenagers and I clearly experience how hard it is to make them much interested in hunting.
It becomes to slow and boring to them.
They are used to instant results and non stop action from games and all sorts of other online activities.
My son that is very soon 19 has taken the mandatory hunting course and exam to be allowed to hunt here, but he is not very eager.
My daughter that is very soon 16 does want to take the course and exam as well and even if she is more eager than her brother, am I rather doubtful that she will be very passionate about hunting.
There is way to much that competes with it these days.
Specially because it has become hard and expensive to get access to good hunting these days.
It is extremely different from when I started to hunt many years ago.
Then I easily got access to good to great hunting for little to no money, but now it has become fashionable among city people with much money to go hunting and then brag about it in office meetings and while having a coffee break.
Driving up the prices and reducing the access a LOT.