roosiebull
WKR
It seems like there are 2 sides of the table (3 including mine in the do what you like to do, and I have zero issues with it and appreciate the skill set)
there is the “long range hunting is awesome” side and the “long range hunting isn’t hunting, it’s just shooting” side. Those are the 2 normal sides you read on the internet.
I was just talking with a buddy earlier and it was brought up, he likes to shoot stuff far away. The subject was brought up out of the blue, I won’t bore anyone with that.
I was mentioning another friend of mine that also likes shooting critters far away, and it got me thinking.... most of the guys I know who are into “long range hunters” now have been straight up killers with a bow for a long time.
people who are against “long range” have their preconceived notions about what that entails (roll up to a landing in your diesel that’s back window is covered in stickers, whip out the magic optics, find a big trophy class critter, which shouldn’t take but a couple minutes with the magical optics, dial in your dope and blast away.... if it drops, run some haywire over there and take some pics for the “gram” and winch ‘er up) not even fair.
as a disclaimer, I don’t shoot Stuff far away and probably never will, I just don’t want to invest the time, money and effort into doing it effectively... it’s easier to just get closer to me
what I see with the people I know who are into long range is they do it as an evolution, to mix things up and challenge themselves in a different way, the ones I know don’t do it as a shortcut to success, they have killed big stuff with archery gear their whole lives.
I don’t think what I see is a coincidence, so that kind of discredits the haters, and why they hate on it.
we as hunters pick the most petty shit to argue about, things that don’t matter even a little. We would be a lot better off if we could (as a whole) open our eyes a little bit and just accept things even if it’s not our thing.
I feel like if someone wants to hate on some form of hunting, they should do a little of it to at least have a legit reason to not like it rather than make it whatever we think it is in our heads (hound hunting comes to mind)
if folks did it, they would see that each type of hunting has it’s own unique difficulties, if forms of hunting were as easy as the haters want to think, it wouldn’t be legal
it seems crazy how cannibalistic we are some times
there is the “long range hunting is awesome” side and the “long range hunting isn’t hunting, it’s just shooting” side. Those are the 2 normal sides you read on the internet.
I was just talking with a buddy earlier and it was brought up, he likes to shoot stuff far away. The subject was brought up out of the blue, I won’t bore anyone with that.
I was mentioning another friend of mine that also likes shooting critters far away, and it got me thinking.... most of the guys I know who are into “long range hunters” now have been straight up killers with a bow for a long time.
people who are against “long range” have their preconceived notions about what that entails (roll up to a landing in your diesel that’s back window is covered in stickers, whip out the magic optics, find a big trophy class critter, which shouldn’t take but a couple minutes with the magical optics, dial in your dope and blast away.... if it drops, run some haywire over there and take some pics for the “gram” and winch ‘er up) not even fair.
as a disclaimer, I don’t shoot Stuff far away and probably never will, I just don’t want to invest the time, money and effort into doing it effectively... it’s easier to just get closer to me
what I see with the people I know who are into long range is they do it as an evolution, to mix things up and challenge themselves in a different way, the ones I know don’t do it as a shortcut to success, they have killed big stuff with archery gear their whole lives.
I don’t think what I see is a coincidence, so that kind of discredits the haters, and why they hate on it.
we as hunters pick the most petty shit to argue about, things that don’t matter even a little. We would be a lot better off if we could (as a whole) open our eyes a little bit and just accept things even if it’s not our thing.
I feel like if someone wants to hate on some form of hunting, they should do a little of it to at least have a legit reason to not like it rather than make it whatever we think it is in our heads (hound hunting comes to mind)
if folks did it, they would see that each type of hunting has it’s own unique difficulties, if forms of hunting were as easy as the haters want to think, it wouldn’t be legal
it seems crazy how cannibalistic we are some times