The 'Internet' - Hunter's Friend or Foe?

[Ryan Avery]

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[juan trueno]

Surprised how many users consider Access to the entire compendium of human knowledge and experience threatening.

 

[neverquit]

The Internet forums can give you instant opinions with access to both experts and total wannabes.

The trick is figuring out who is who^.

Nyself: Im really a 17 yr old HS dropout that has never been out if my grandmas cellar, but on the internet i can give advice AND BE SOMEONE!

DUDE !!!! Your giving away trade secrets

 

[Brendan]

Surprised how many users consider Access to the entire compendium of human knowledge and experience threatening.

When it was more difficult to get that information, only the dedicated people took the time to figure it out. I think easy access to information is putting more people out hunting (which can be a good thing) but it's making it more crowded and harder to draw for people that did it before.

Friend because I had to start somewhere.

Foe because of the lower cost of entry and more knuckleheads.

 

[5MilesBack]

It's not just the internet, it's people in general.......people are the problem. Our nation is seriously messed up. Way too many haters of capitalism and freedom running around, and actually getting voted into Congress. Things are changing for the worse at an exponential rate, but it's not the internet's fault. The internet is just a means of spewing garbage and having idiots believe it all as truth and facts. Nobody can think on their own anymore, they have to be told how and what to think, and that flow of garbage is instantaneous now these days. You can be part of the 1% of the nation that is a "special interest group", yet have over 50% of the airtime.....tricking people into thinking that you're over 50% of the population so it's all normal. That's messed up. With world and societal sentiments and thinking these days........the internet is definitely a foe to what America used to be and once stood for.

And as for hunting, ya.........I'm sure the internet is ruining that as much as society as well.

 

[rustneversleeps]

This blog post is pertaining to fishing, but I feel the same way about hunting:

Fishcast Blog | Is Social Media Ruining Fishing Spots?

It's one thing to help spread the joys of hunting, but a whole other aspect of trying to get "likes" and attention, or ruining it for others that have spent time figuring out themselves.

 

[wyo]

Foe. Primarily due to removing the degree of separation between hunters and anti-hunters. It takes a lot of "good guys" to undo the damage done by one bad apple these days.

 

[jspradley]

It's a tool, just like a hammer or a gun, it all depends on how you use it.

The downsides are super visible but I genuinely believe the upsides outweight it

 

[Johnboy]

I do all wrenching and tuning of my own archery gear thanks to the internet. It's been a friend to me.

 

[16Bore]

We'll start with selfies......

 

[cnelk]

We'll start with selfies......

Haha!

 

[Buckman]

Foe, prolly because I'm older and remember a time before it was around. I think we all really appreciate the things that it can do for us, but can't forget that WE are pretty good at adjusting to the situation at hand. May take longer but the feeling of satisfaction is great.

 

[dukhunt]

Both. Before the internet I hunted duck at least 30 days a year. I loved it. The internet DESTROYED public hunting in Illinois. I have since moved on to big game out west and will never look back. The reason I was able to learn the application strategy is because of the internet. Now I sort of feel like I’m one of “those guys” that are “overcrowding” public lands and contributing to point creep.

 

[Randle]

If you open the tech box wider , you see that Internet puts the info out there, gps /onx puts the people out there, and spot/ in reach gives them the confidence to go further maybe even into our deep dark spot that from the ground looked daunting but the Google Earth version showed a huge meadow just past that 300 yards of jungle. Remember the day when you had to navigate, Dead reckoning your way thru the timber . If you took a risk it wasn't with spot in you pocket to help out. It's all out there, use at your own risk.

 

[16Bore]

Like paper maps? Asking Game Wardens? Looking at surveys? Whooda thunk it. Now Google-Fu replaces experience and dudes love to argue about what they read somewhere as their "facts".

Ah yes.....the good old inner net. Now let me write some sappy blog about my feelings.

 

[5MilesBack]

Fishcast Blog | Is Social Media Ruining Fishing Spots?

My parents were always mainstays up in WY every Fall for fly fishing. My dad had a favorite spot on a river up there for decades. I fished it from the time I was 2 and could lay a line down. When I was in high school in the early 80's we saw a Rocky Mountain News newspaper out of Denver that had an article on WY fly fishing with exact directions to that particular spot. It turned into a zoo, and we never went back. Completely ruined that spot, most of that river, and most every other spots around there. So it's not just internet, it's idiots.

 

[nickstevens2588]

Like paper maps? Asking Game Wardens? Looking at surveys? Whooda thunk it. Now Google-Fu replaces experience and dudes love to argue about what they read somewhere as their "facts".

Ah yes.....the good old inner net. Now let me write some sappy blog about my feelings.

Had to use Google to figure out what google-fu was.....

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[MuleyFever]

Technology has put me in areas I most likely would never have found on my own.

 

[tt_johnsclist]

The internet itself? Friend. Social media? Foe.


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[isu22andy]

There is ALOT of stuff I wouldnt have done or had the drive to go do without the internet. Its saved me thousands and cost me just as much .