Hunted Texas for the last 60 years - unfortunately this article is spot on - in ten years from now what will Texas deer hunting be?
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Originally posted by MadHatter View PostHunting is definitely becoming a lost art. I doubt the average hunter in Texas even knows how to sharpen a knife anymore.
Nothing is safe from the everybody gets a trophy mentality
I just throw mine away when it gets dull and get a new one.
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It’s sad
The ranch I border is only 190 acres and they have ten hunters. The ranch I work for is 2200, the ranch that encompasses the other 2/3 of the 190 place is 4800. These rejects killed seven 2.5 yr old 8 points. We asked them why and they said that’s how you properly manage a place ( kill every deer you see that isn’t a ten point no matter the age). I just shook my head and told them they were idiots. Nearly all of those bucks had grown up on our milo fields all year and just happened to pass through their place going to our other food plot. I see more nonhunters hunting than I do outdoorsman doing anything.
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Originally posted by MadHatter View PostHunting is definitely becoming a lost art. I doubt the average hunter in Texas even knows how to sharpen a knife anymore.
Nothing is safe from the everybody gets a trophy mentality
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A friend sent me that article just today and I read it with my defenses up assuming it was another “hunting is evil” diatribe. However I found myself agreeing with much of it. Yes, deer breeding and pay-to-kill menu hunts are legal and I hesitate to give any ground to the anti-hunting movement. But this type of hunting is the opposite of what I personally think deer hunting is all about. I guess you could say I’m conflicted. On the one hand I am baffled at how anyone could feel a sense of pride and accomplishment because they wrote a five figure check and killed what is basically domestic livestock with a rocking chair on its head. On the other hand I don’t want to give any ground to those who’s ultimate goal is to ban hunting altogether
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I live in Louisiana and work in Texas. I'm not sure if it's because there is not much public land over there or what but I don't work with a single person that is not on a lease sittin in a box over a corn feeder. To each his own though but I've often wondered if any of em has ever been scouting. I hunted on a lease for a couple of years here and found myself hating sitting in a box staring at the same old trees. Gave it up and now only hunt public land where baiting is not legal. I find scouting and seeing new woods so much more fun. I've found some white oaks that are basically free feeders.
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Originally posted by Duckologist View PostI live in Louisiana and work in Texas. I'm not sure if it's because there is not much public land over there or what but I don't work with a single person that is not on a lease sittin in a box over a corn feeder. To each his own though but I've often wondered if any of em has ever been scouting. I hunted on a lease for a couple of years here and found myself hating sitting in a box staring at the same old trees. Gave it up and now only hunt public land where baiting is not legal. I find scouting and seeing new woods so much more fun. I've found some white oaks that are basically free feeders.
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