What do we call 'hunting' today? Well...in comparison to the way I did it for several years it's a poor excuse for the old way of slipping though the timber/thickets and catching game out doing their daily activity! Today....'hunting'???....is building a 'shxthouse stand' aka box with carpet on the floor, a heater, and a comfortable chair to lean back in and maybe even a TV so those inclined can watch their favorite ballgame or "Corner of the Morning" show!! In addition there's usually a bunch of $$$$$ spent on planting some weird kind of food plot out in front of the 'box' and basically 'hunting' has turned into a game of 'shooting' instead of using old time woodlore to take home a buck! And whereas I got a kick out of killing a 11 pointer (a spike buck), nowadays everybody is out to take a 185 pt. plus buck and think that anything less than that is terrible! Most Outdoor Channel videos are all pushing the BIG BUCK thing and a young kid can't go out and take a spike or a 4 pt. buck of average size and feel good about it because of all this hype that's pumped up on the TV videos! And in my opinion, what makes all this so ridiculous is the fact that basically all these Outdoor Channel shows are only after the Almighty Dollar and if you took most of these guys promoting these shows to the middle of the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge and told them to find due east....they'd be as lost as I would be if I was told to perform brain surgery on a Snail Darter!! If one pays attention to WHERE all these videos are shot it's easy to see that it's either in South Texas where there's as many deer as there are bees in a hive and usually the terrain is wide arsed open with not much vegatation or in some location like one I watched a while back that was adjacent to a Wyoming river bottom where the hunters could go out and glass their deer jumping a fence and then they'd go put up a stand near that point! That's all well and great but my point is I'd like to see those guys come down here in a few places where there's some timber left and make one of those BIG BUCK videos and take one! After one trip...they wouldn't be back I can assure you! Apparently the bucks I've hunted in the past and present are a lot different animal than what exist in Wyoming and South Texas because most are totally nocturnal!
Well....gotta quit this guys! Gotta go finish working on my 'shxthouse stand'! My!! What a change!!
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