Unpopular opinions

When it comes to gear related opinions, most guys have an opinion to justify what they choose. I would be included in that statement.

To the original point in the first post, I do believe the high-end glass is worth the money. Until I had some, I didn't realize what I was missing. I can glass 15-20 minutes before and after others in my group. The glass lets me see a lot of detail I can't see in other glass when looking side by side.



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Ashby bowhunting studies don't apply to modern bowhunters. Current modern archery harvest rate is about 50% harvest rate and Dr. Ed Ashby rate over 640 animals is over 99% of his animals were recovered. Go figure that all the hype of fast long range light arrows leads to decreasing harvest rates.
 
What if I bait fish and I don't even drink? Extra lazy I suppose lol. Napping in the sand waiting for a pole to start jumping sounds pretty great right about now 😁

I think you had a typo here. "Is less than" sign goes <

I love eating all wild game, but I would completely reverse that order of preference. (Except field fed whitetail. That is better than elk and mulies)
Oh my, I hunt my property in MO and was ALWAYS told that corn fed WT's were the best. Well, that is wrong. For some reason, all the farmers around me grew soy beans this last year. I killed a pretty decent buck and didn't have high hopes for it table-wise. It is the absolute best tasting deer I have ever killed.
 
You simply cannot hunt with a heavy rifle. Your arm will fall off or you will tip over and tumble down the mountain to forever be lost.

Any gun that has more recoil than a 6mm is ridiculous and guaranteed to make you shoot so terribly that you will never kill anything again due to your flinching and eye-closing.


And has been said before you have to go 20 miles in to kill.
 
When it comes to gear related opinions, most guys have an opinion to justify what they choose. I would be included in that statement.

To the original point in the first post, I do believe the high-end glass is worth the money. Until I had some, I didn't realize what I was missing. I can glass 15-20 minutes before and after others in my group. The glass lets me see a lot of detail I can't see in other glass when looking side by side.



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Yes sir. Wish I had bought alpha glass 20 years earlier.
 
1: every cartridge invented after 1894 was unnecessary. Cartridge design peaked with the 6.5x55

2: hunters get way too worked up about predators. Shooting a coyote during deer season every 5 years isn’t “saving fawns”, and wolves aren’t the bogeyman some people claim.
Says someone from Ar-kansas

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What are some commonly held beliefs in the hunting world that you don’t agree with?

Personally I’ve always thought that “buy the best glass you can afford” was just clever marketing by optics companies. Mid range glass is perfectly suitable for almost everyone and can save you thousands of dollars you can spend on tags or other gear
So true about every piece of gear in every niche, glass, rifles, arrows, golf clubs, bikes, purses, vehicles and everything else. Marketing and the placebo affect is a power we really do not understand. It works to separate us from our money but does not improve performance anywhere near as advertised
 
Coyotes put a big hurt on whitetail populations thus you should kill each and every 'yote you see.

I don't buy it, at least where I live in SW Wisconsin. Almost every animal has predators, which is good for that animal - it weeds out the sick and weak. We have lots of whitetails in my area and IMO the coyotes don't put much of a dent in the overall population. In fact, I believe we have more whitetails than we need, so good for the coyotes to help thin the herd.
 
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