So I paused on a hunting show for about 5 mins. Young guy kills a good buck. Great, made a nice shot with a ML ... now, he said he had been hunting 5 times this year, at North Fork Outfitters. As he is saying this, he's sitting in a brand new box blind big enough to host a small wedding, on a food plot . Buck comes out stops broadside and boom! it's over. Did he really hunt hard for this? I don't know, maybe he did, but if that's hunting hard, then what I do is either extreme/hardcore and honorable or just plain dumb as %uck!
I understand it's entertainment, and they have to produce or they won't have a show, but don't lie to us. Just say, "man I hunt about 4-5times a year, I pay my money to hunt outfitters and I was fortunate to shoot a deer like this, thanks to the guides for doing the work.."
I see a hunter in a box blind sitting over a food plot and I change the channel…. Just can’t relate to that type of “ hunting.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have gotten to where I will not even watch a hunting show/video if they are not hunting in a lock-on/ladder/climber, basically up in a tree exposed. A saddle is the exception, not a fan... In my opinion, "hunting" at an outfitter is far from hunting, especially when somebody else puts in all of the work and you just show up to shoot an animal that is conditioned to come to a certain spot... That being said, I hunt over corn, so what do I know? Sent from my SM-G973U using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
Ten years ago a guy who also had permission to hunt the ground I hunt built an elevated platform with walls and a roof for him and his wife. He lost privileges so I started to hunt out of it on occasion. Trees have fallen on it twice and the roof was crushed, but we still hunt out of it. Daughter-in-law killed her first buck out of it… That’s as close as I will ever be to a box blind. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
As an ex construction worker, I wouldn’t be able to not write on the walls in a box blind. I wouldn’t ever see deer bc I’d be too busy drawing indecent pictures and writing poop poems
If you don’t have to climb a tree stand in late summer, preparing for the fall, and stir up the HORNETS NEST in the seat cushion, then your not working for your deer. True story. So after jumping down most of the way, landing awkwardly and running away I only found one stinger in my hand. I’ll return after the season is over with a flame thrower
Hunting is like everything else. There is varying degrees of difficulty that you can choose or “pay” to hunt. No different than riding your bike on the park bike path compared to some extreme bmx or mountain biker. Its all how much effort and time you want to put in. But going back to one of your previous questions “ did he really hunt hard for this?” I imagine for some people even climbing into a heated blind after being dropped off by UTV 20 min after shooting light, sitting for 20 min, aquiring a trophy target that was dang near tied up to a tree, putting the right end of the gun against shoulder and squeezing one off followed by the classic “i just smoked a giant” or “youll have to give me a minute, ive waited so long for this” while they bite on their fist is, in fact, hard for some people. Not to mention being picked back up and driven right to the carcass, watching their trophy be gutted and loaded on the UTV by staff members. Now that makes the reward that much sweeter
Nothing wrong with sitting in a blind or a lean to to hunt. Especially for the elderly, that's me, or the youngins. I agree that these hunting ranches that find your deer, hang your stand and tell you what, and when to shoot is not a real sure nuf hunt !!
I hear you. I have had hard hunts and I have had easy hunts… Sitting in a box blind sounds downright plush.
