Quien Sabe,
In reality, there is not much "croc hunting" along the Texas Gulf Coast.......
Mostly Alligator
and my oldest son and grandson do that in Flip-flops!
Anywho,
How much fun could we have with the topic "is that really hunting though"......
I use the term "hunting" loosely as I realize that geography and local custom vary from state to state, and country to country.
I could have just as easily said that "guys that sit in blinds" as my post was mainly an attempt at humor.
Mostly I say that I'm going afield. I take a rifle, camera, refreshment, snacks, audio-books and other various odds and ends. I may spend the better part of 60 days a year "in the field".
BTW, due the geography of the Texas Hill country where I hunt, a spot and stalk hunt is probably the least productive type of "hunting and is a good way to break an ankle, leg or hip. May through September it can be over 100 degrees at 8PM. There is no cell service and you get caught out without enough water and it can be deadly, not to mention every thing that habitates the region either claws, bites, sticks or stings. Of an evening one can quickly surmise that he is not at the top of the food chain as coyotes, hogs and cougars roam.
I call this spot, "The Canopy". It is the second most remote of the "stands" I "sit".
North Westerly View
Southeasterly View
Each feeder is set up at +/- 175 Yds, in a small clearing I've opened up. I only "sit" at the Canopy in the mornings as it takes about 45 minutes to get to the Southeasterly feeder and about 75 Minutes to get to the Northwesterly feeder on my 4wheeler due to the nature of the terrain and the density of the Juniper. It would pretty much be a fools errand to try to go there in the dark and then maybe have to track.
This ranch is +/-64K Acres of low fenced-no fenced land. Just because one has a "feeder" does not mean that when "the dinner bell rings" that critters magically appear.
But when they do.....
I enjoy the heck out of trying to place a bullet on a line between ear and shoulder, about two inches below the ear on that line on a constantly moving target.
If done correctly, hoglets just drop and paddle as their spinal cord is severed and I do not have to track. If you can't find a blood trail within 10' or so, most times you do not recover your quarry. By morning it is gone.
Anywho, whether its hunting or not. I certainly enjoy it and if done frequently it assuages the pangs of SDD (Shooting Deficit Disorder) that afflict this ol' fart.
ya!
GWB
PS: I was a skosh off on this one. My Bad! LOL