Biggest hurdle/barrier to entry into hunting?

[Steve300xcw]

Nah not strange, your lack of understanding is staggering, you’re coming on here on a thread full of people saying what was in their way when they got started. Then called it sniveling bitch excuses. THEN, I pointed out that this thread isn’t for shitting on what people think is a hurdle they had to navigate getting into hunting. I am trying to understand and see how we can minimize that, you and butt buddy Steve are coming in here with your tough guy mantra saying it’s all bullshit, congratulations I know not everything is a huge fricking deal and life or death when comes to hunting. **** me for trying to get peoples opinions and brainstorm how to make hunting more accessible to garner future hunters and support. Hunting for 5 decades with no mentor? AWESOME! I bet that was something you had to navigate and figure out when you were getting into this, and you figured it out, GREAT!

Never been accused of being a tough guy before.. I am honored


BTW You might want to put down your caramel frappuccino and lay off the caffeine for a bit.

 

[Blacktail_]

Never been accused of being a tough guy before.. I am honored


BTW You might want to put down your caramel frappuccino and lay off the caffeine for a bit.

Haha yeah I can tell you never have that’s why you’re doing your best online projecting of being one!!

 

[Greenhorn]

Sure that would work too who cares so the name of the thread is bugging you? Calling it an excuse instead of a barrier helps you sleep at night?

Nothing is bugging me, this is a hilarious thread. Thank you for starting this.

Initially for me it was knowing where to go, pulling up onx on the western part of the state is an absolute headache as a newbie. Looks like a yellow/red checkerboard that is impossible to navigate.

I’d love to hear from anyone what they dealt with getting started and how they overcame that hurdle.

I took hunter ed in 1980 and was overwhelmed. I bought a bow two years later and wanted to try it for a deer. I didn't know a single person who bowhunted. I lived on a farm and didn't have a single friend who hunted. This was before the internet, OnXmaps, youtube, instagram, etc. I had no idea was a USGS quad was in those days. All I know is I wanted to hunt more than anybody else on earth as far as I knew and I was hard headed to do it every chance I got.

I taught myself to bowhunt in 1984 and failed miserably. Missed a huge buck my first day out, then shot another huge buck in the face a couple weeks later. Killed the first one I missed on the last day of the rifle season, after watching another hunter kill the one I arrowed in the face opening day of rifle season. I hunted almost every day for 3 months, before and after school.

I remember the mistakes I made 45 years later like they happened yesterday and love how it all panned out. I love to hunt, even when the hunting is crappy.

My barrier is the 50 Billion whining idiots that compete for tags and a place outside after they discovered in on their phone and spent a thousand bucks at Sportmans Warehouse the week before.

 

[Blacktail_]

Nothing is bugging me, this is a hilarious thread. Thank you for starting this.

I took hunter ed in 1980 and was overwhelmed. I bought a bow two years later and wanted to try it for a deer. I didn't know a single person who bowhunted. I lived on a farm and didn't have a single friend who hunted. This was before the internet, OnXmaps, youtube, instagram, etc. I had no idea was a USGS quad was in those days. All I know is I wanted to hunt more than anybody else on earth as far as I knew and I was hard headed to do it every chance I got.

I taught myself to bowhunt in 1984 and failed miserably. Missed a huge buck my first day out, then shot another huge buck in the face a couple weeks later. Killed the first one I missed on the last day of the rifle season, after watching another hunter kill the one I arrowed in the face opening day of rifle season. I hunted almost every day for 3 months, before and after school.

I remember the mistakes I made 45 years later like they happened yesterday and love how it all panned out. I love to hunt, even when the hunting is crappy.

My barrier is the 50 Billion whining idiots that compete for tags and a place outside after they discovered in on their phone and spent a thousand bucks at Sportmans Warehouse the week before.

Geez yeah 50 billion is a large number, almost seems impossible! If you give it a quick google, you will see the number of hunters has not increased that much in the time you have been hunting. I get it you want it all to yourself but it sadly doesn’t work that way.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Wow

 

[Blacktail_]

I know, mind blowing stuff.

 

[Blacktail_]

Thanks Greenhorn, sorry I used your trigger word as the name of the thread. And you’re right, I don’t get your selfish desire to have the woods to yourself, I understand that is unrealistic.

 

[Steve300xcw]

I know, mind blowing stuff.

This thread has made an interesting turn, thats for sure. I dunno if thats a good thing though. I do appreciate you showing the class the kind of person you are though.

 

[Blacktail_]

Likewise Stevie

 

[Blacktail_]

Still waiting for you to point out where I said everyone needed to be fast tracked to the top, I asked for that earlier but never got a response…

 

[Ralphie]

Greenhorn is probably a couple years older than me but very similar story although I probably sucked at it longer and still do lots of the time. No one in my family hunted. I asked my dad if I could buy a bow. I pretty much knew he wouldn’t let me buy a gun. I rode my bike into town to the archery store, bought a recurve bow and some arrows with money I’d made and rode home with it all. Later on I bought a compound bow with more money I’d saved. Stacked some straw bales up for a backstop and started shooting. When I was lucky my mom or dad would drive me out to a “hunting spot” and drop me off. I had a fanny pack with “gear” in it. It was quite awhile before I had success on big game.

So yes it’s a hard pill to swallow to hear that grown men with regular income and vehicles need a mentor.

And as posted above the biggest barrier is the lack of tags now a days, people hunting for likes and thinking every hunt needs to be filmed.