Are you the most hardcore in your circle?? Do you eat, sleep, drink it more than you buds? Do they say you need to chill out about bowhunting?? I get it a lot...my family and friends that bowhunt look at me like Im crazy when I tell them I shot my bow in Feb....they believe Im sick...they just don't get me...I try to tell em that it would do them well to do the same, but nope, they want no part of it...my cousin just told me on the phone this morning that he had been shooting his bow.....really?? he said he shot 2 weeks ago and before that it was early Aug... yet he wonders why he lost 2 deer last yr...not hardcore= half ass in my book.
Landon I'm pretty hardcore. But I think we all know who the "MOST" hardcore is. on a side note, watched Primetime Bucks 13 last night and all I have to say is zzzzzzzzzz....zzzzzzzzzzz...literally. Not to get off topic but I know how you feel about some of the hunting dvds out. You seen that one yet? Please quit trying to sell me stuff. I like the map overlays they use but that was about the extent of it.
Today were going to such snd such outfitters and we'll be hunting out of the same stand as last year and shooting a buck bigger than most of you will see in 10 seasons the first sit......but hey we are hunting hard right?
I used to be, before I got back into other hobbies that I am more interested in. When I was filming for No Limits- there were a few of those guys who were pretty hardcore hunters. And, certainly more accomplished than I. However, I quickly seperated myself from them when I learned that they were a bunch of trespassing, poaching and crap talking idiots.
If anyone is more hardcore, then I would like to see what their body looks like after hanging stands for day. I look like I was in a death camp for bow-hunters after yesterdays mission! Heading out again shortly - 10 stands trimmed and hung. Another 6 to go...
I feel you Todd. I have done more prep this season than any season before. Me and 2 other buddies have hung 16 so far and have 4 or 5 still in play from last year. Three more to hang next Saturday and that's it. Sounds like a lot but when you have 2 or 3 people hunting and crazy winds we need them. I also take people hunting a lot and like having options. I'm hoping my dad or my brother(stationed in Germany but home this year from Nov. 3- 30th)scores from one of my stands so I can charge them a guide fee (aka Steak Dinner).
I guess compared to my friends I would be considered hardcore...but compared to some of the people here...probably not so much.
I have never considered myself hardcore. I do more since starting to bowhunt than I ever did gun hunting. I look at guys like Dan Infalt, Todd WKP, and a few others (historically) as hardcore as it gets. These guys GET IT DONE.:D
My circle of friends who say they hunt? Yep. My true hunting friends? Not at all, they are all just as crazy as me...
I only hang around one other guy that hunts, and that is sporadically. I only have one person to compare myself...myself. I work hard at the hunting game, but it is really not hard work. It is a lot of fun. So I don't know if I would be considered hardcore. I personally don't think I would. I just love to bowhunt.
Does your "hardcoreness" result in an equal amount of greater success?........meaning if you are twice as "hardcore" as all your buddies are you killing bucks twice the size and twice as often?
I would say yes in my circle but then that also includes Todd but he can whine about all the stands he has hung and how beat up he is because he does the same thing every year and then only hunts two of them and starts running and gunning so I have to add more hard core but smarter!!! HE/HE/HE!!!!Sorry Minnie!!!Walt
I am deffinatly not the most hardcore. I shoot regularly, but not a ton, I know my limits. I have a friend who wont be happy till he is drilling skoal cans at 60 yards. He works real hard at it and it pays off. He was a marine scout sniper, maybe the Intensity transfers over.
Please elaborate. Nope.........just curious because I find it interesting how some people consider being "hardcore" a badge of honor regardless of success level. Myself, I see it as a sign of weakness unless like I said your results are proportional to your "hardcoreness". What other aspect of life do we assess effort over success?? If it takes you 3 days to read a comic book while I admire your "hardcoreness" you are a moron (not you, speaking in general). If it takes you 10 years to finish a masters degree I guess you are "hardcore" but see above I've seen tons of people working jobs I would consider "hardcore"........doesn't mean I want to swap pay checks with them. Last year I worked my balls off to get a shot at a buck.......tons of time off season, tons of hours sitting and seeing nothing. I toughed it out and swore I would go down swinging both mentally and physically before giving up and the day before gun season I got my one and only look all year minutes before dark and I didn't miss. I guess if I wanted to spin it I could say my "hardcoreness" paid off.........but honestly it could easily be said that I put on a 6 week long suckfest of how to hunt like an idiot 101 and I'm not sure I could argue. The fact that I put in 6 weeks of "hardcoreness" is certainly admirable...........but if that "hardcoreness" equated to "better" should it have taken me so long? 2 guys........1 goes "hardcore" and spends his life 24/7+365 obsessed with chasing deer. He sits all day every day for months on end and after 1,000 hours on stand he bags a monster. The other guy knows his stuff and does what he needs to do when he has time to do it and drills a monster on his 6th half day sit. Is guy 1 better off because he went "hardcore"??
Atlas.... The "hardcoreness" shows the guys love for hunting and the outdoors. To me it isn't about how long it may take someone to get it done, but rather how much they enjoy what they are doing. Give me a group of "hardcore" buddies who may struggle to fill their tags over the successful casual hunters any day. I do see what you are getting at though with your reply... I just look at the reason for the "hardcoreness" differently.
