Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Ontario Trophy Bucks forum. Enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
What make's a person a hunter?
Topic Started: Aug 14 2010, 08:31 PM (593 Views)
Posted Image swampdogger
Member Avatar


I know if it was not for my uncle, i would not be a hunter to-day. What make's you a hunter? :cheers:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image Archer Ontario
Member Avatar
Archer Ontario, Kingston Ont

the love of the outdoors
the smell of fall in the air
cool crisp frost filled mornings
the sounds of mallards in the marsh the sounds of migrating geese
the distant uuuuurrrgghh of a bull moose answerng a lovesick moan of a cow
the hammering gobble of a love sick tom in spring
the sight of a majastic whitetail buck
TRADITION ,FAMILY
the awakening of the woods every morning .
brings me to my childhood every time i think about it .
:goodpost:
SHOOT STRAIT OR SHOOT ALOT "SMACKDOWN"
www.ontariotrophybucks.ca
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image buckstop
buckstop northern wisconsin

Archer Ontario
Aug 14 2010, 07:49 PM
the love of the outdoors
the smell of fall in the air
cool crisp frost filled mornings
the sounds of mallards in the marsh the sounds of migrating geese
the distant uuuuurrrgghh of a bull moose answerng a  lovesick moan of a cow
the hammering gobble of a love sick tom in spring
the sight of a majastic whitetail buck
TRADITION ,FAMILY
the awakening of the woods every morning .
brings me to my childhood every time i think about it .
:goodpost:

Can't say it much better than that! ditto here.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image chessy
Member Avatar


swampdogger
Aug 14 2010, 09:31 PM
I know if it was not for my uncle, i would not be a hunter to-day. What make's you a hunter? :cheers:

good friends to learn from and train there kids when a person is incaple of really hunting anymore :) :cheers:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
tracker
Member Avatar
Regular
[ *  *  *  * ]
Here is my response to a letter that was printed in our local newspaper. The do godder was bashing hunters and why anyone needs to hunt.

Re: “Few need to hunt” letter June , 2007

I guess I would be one of these chosen few that “need to hunt”.
Mainly I hunt because I enjoy being out in the outdoors. I haven’t shot a big game animal in a few years but I have taken a few grouse. It is not all about the kill.
Hunting also allows myself to spend time with family members that I do not see through the year. My hunting party includes my son, my brother, a nephew, an uncle and a cousin.
At my place of employment our Health and Safety Committee has had local guest speakers from the Health Community and they all agree there are advantages to eating wild game meat as an alternative. Meat eaters must realize that if they chose to eat organic meat or processed meat from the supermarkets, that somewhere there is still the remains of a dead animal.
The hunting fees that I am charged pay for management programs administered by the MNR and I hope if there is a bit left, some of it makes its way into the gas tanks of the CO’s trucks.
I feel that through my hunting or hunting parties, that I am helping at keeping the game populations at a manageable level. Surely vehicle/animal collisions is not an environmentally friendly way of controlling populations. The added costs from these accidents incurred by the insurance companies and to our health system are passed onto everyone, even the non hunters.
Tracker
Team NOSA Homepage

Team NOSA Forum
Born to Fish, Forced to Work
<')(((((>{
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image dobber
Member Avatar
Team Ontario Trophy Bucks

I was born in England, from the time i can remember i was intrigued with hunting/the outdoors. I remember waiting as a kid for the old man who hunted, he had his double barrel 12 bore over his shoulder and an occassional hare or pheasant. I moved to Canada when i was 10 and after the next in province move it had me on the outskirts of Sudbury. I wasnt old enough to carry a gun, but most moments were spent out in the back bush. Chasing grouse, wondering what left that pile there (apparently i didnt know too much about bears and had no fear).
I have hunted with some gangs that has left a bad taste and i thought to myself i should give it up, never hunt again as it wasnt enjoyable.
Them thoughts were always quick to disapear when i saw a bird in flight, or the back corner of a field and a deer feeding away.
I have no real reason as to what makes me a hunter, other than i am.

My son had the chance to go to Myrtle beach to spend time with his cousins, he is 17, i let him chose for himself. Very quick, no hesitation at all, no am going bear hunting. I have asked myself a few times why does he enjoy it, he can sit for turkeys from 5am till 7pm and want to come back the next day. The only reason i can figure it out as to what makes him a hunter, is the same as mine, because he is.

Its not something you can switch, its something thats within each of us, sometimes it just takes a little time for that want/need to come out
condescending twat
Someone who looks down on other people and is beyond arrogant
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
moosemike
Member Avatar
Sophmore
[ *  *  * ]
It's definitely not something that you can switch on or off. You either are one or you aren't. It always amazes me how you'll have a few kids raised by the same parents and some of them are hunters and some aren't. I guess it's programmed into our DNA.
I'd rather be Moose hunting.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image Bad Dog
Member Avatar
come here deer

Archer Ontario
Aug 14 2010, 08:49 PM
the love of the outdoors
the smell of fall in the air
cool crisp frost filled mornings
the sounds of mallards in the marsh the sounds of migrating geese
the distant uuuuurrrgghh of a bull moose answerng a  lovesick moan of a cow
the hammering gobble of a love sick tom in spring
the sight of a majastic whitetail buck
TRADITION ,FAMILY
the awakening of the woods every morning .
brings me to my childhood every time i think about it .
:goodpost:

I'd have to say it was my Mother & Father that got me into the outdoors, I don't remember but I was probably wrapped up in a blanket in a car seat in the middle of the woods deer hunting or fishing. I remember shooting at my first deer when I was 12 or 13 maybe younger (I missed and cried at the same time) sitting with mom, she said that was o.k and that I did well, I made sure the safety was off, I saw my target,what was behind it and that I could make the shot. Still missed it but wow I remember it like it happened yesterday (it was a Doe).Then I shot my first deer (buck) it was a small 8pt (it went down on my first shot but it was still moving so I filled it full of lead) I was pumped, told my dad over the radio I shot a small fawn/Doe, and when he came over I got the biggest pat on the back! woohoo and then learned how to run the knife. lol))) Funny thing that happened was I was hooked,I wanted to hunt more often than my father could do, due to his profession so I started hunting with a great friend of mine (spartacus) for grouse, rabbits, ducks and deer!and a lot of fishing, got in ALOT of trouble when Jere and I said we were going to be home before dark and rolled in about 11:30pm with lots of Walleye and said they "were biting great". That was when I knew that i was clear of getting in trouble after that cause when I was hearing it from my father, My mom spoke up and said " Hey there better in the boat fishing or doing some huniting rather than being on the street! doing drugs and getting arrested by the cops! what harm can they cause when they come home with stories like "you would'nt believe this" or " look at what we got" even though we were late most of the time. So my by biggest thanks is to my mother and father. So just remember moms an dads if your child comes home from fishing or hunting and didn't call, here there stories first. If there anything like I was say "you should of phoned" and give them a great big hug! be thankful. :agree:
you can't shoot em on the couch, go out and get em!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image Tim H
Member Avatar


I think it's hard to pin down what makes a person a "hunter." Most of the posts here mention the influences which introduced them to hunting, but those influences (parents, friends, mentors, etc) are not enough by themselves to make a person a hunter. I have several friends & aquaintances who are from families of hunters, who were out hunting from the time they could carry a gun, but who have very little interest in the hunt. It's something they do because of tradition, but not for much else, and if something else comes up, they'll pass on the hunt.
Conversely, I was not raised in a hunting family. By the time I was born, my dad was too busy with work to hunt, and when the gun registry came into effect he turned in the farm guns rather than bother to get a licence. I spent my youth in the woods, and was fascinated with wildlife. Anything with fur or feathers was interesting to me, and the first time I saw a live deer was life changing for me. I remember it as clear as if it was yesterday. I was hunting racoons with a borrowed .22 one fall afternoon, and was returning home near dusk. A doe fawn was out in the middle of a field, and I decided to see how close I could get. The fawn didn't think much of me, and as the sun set it would let me creep to within 30 feet, while browsing, then jog off 50' or so. I would close the gap and it would trot away. This went on for about 30 minutes, circling in the field, until I decided to head home in the dark.

I think the urge to hunt is something you are born with, or not. In a way it is competitive, pitting yourself against an animal which has evolved to survive by evading predators. That element of competition is what drives many of us to bow-hunt, and also to hold out for mature bucks or bulls. A meat hunter is basically looking to fill their freezer for cheap, and their's nothing wrong with that. I think someone hunting for meat enjoys the hunt as much as someone after a trophy. But differently. For me the thrill of the hunt itself is the payoff. Not the kill, not the meat, and not the inches of antler, but the success.

It's hard to explain, but it's that sense of competition, the predator vs prey that drives me to hunt. I feel truly alive when hunting, no matter what the prey and I would feel empty if I couldn't.
"Only accurate rifles are interesting." - Col. Townsend Whelan
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Big Game Hunter
Sophmore
[ *  *  * ]
Archer Ontario
Aug 14 2010, 08:49 PM
the love of the outdoors
the smell of fall in the air
cool crisp frost filled mornings
the sounds of mallards in the marsh the sounds of migrating geese
the distant uuuuurrrgghh of a bull moose answerng a lovesick moan of a cow
the hammering gobble of a love sick tom in spring
the sight of a majastic whitetail buck
TRADITION ,FAMILY
the awakening of the woods every morning .
brings me to my childhood every time i think about it .
:goodpost:

All of the above.

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
fairchase
Regular
[ *  *  *  * ]
What makes me a hunter? Well i would have to say that a true love for the outdoors is what makes me a hunter! A hunter in my opinion is a person with the greatest respect for the outdoors and the wildlife that inhabit it. A hunter is the person that devotes their time to managing wildlife and the environment around it. In managing wildlife populations we harvest animals from nature with the upmost respect for that animal. No different than picking an apple off of a tree. We respect where it comes from and are greatfull to mother nature for the opportunity to do so. All others in my opinion are just doing it for the kill. They are not hunters. I however consider myself to be one!!


Great post!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
ZetaBoards gives you all the tools to create a successful discussion community.
« Previous Topic · Moose Hunting Forum · Next Topic »
Add Reply