elkoholic Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 There is no more, or maybe never was, a legal hunting season. Then what? Would you still spend time (many hours) in the woods? The food plots planted to "improve the health" of the herd. Would they not exist? Is the only reason you spend time in the outdoor world because you can legally kill something? If you took away all the modern "creature comforts" that have sissified (no offense intended to the ladies) outdoor adventures, would you still participate? Just wondering. Are you an outdoors person or is hunting your reason for being outdoors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 Still have animals on our place, am outside working with the cows and keeping up our property, so pretty simple answer here for this on me. Yes. Have actually gotten into more other aspects of managing more recently with learning to trap and expanding from conibear/water kill traps I have been running for beaver for a few years now to land sets for yotes. Guess in a way it is in my blood. I never got to hunt with any of my family though with losing my dad when I was only 2. My grandfather was pretty big into fly fishing, a story I was told by a distant cousin about 20 years ago was that he fished with Lawrence Welk, I cannot verify that though. My aunt gave me some old turkey calls she said belonged to my grandfather years ago. Grandfather passed when I was 9 and did not really get to get close to him. My dad and his sisters were all pretty outdoorsy and into camping and boating and from what I was told of my father he liked to hunt and fish, and was a licensed scuba diver as well. Grew up being drug to lake Mead as a kid by my aunt(dad's oldest sister), would take a load of us kids out on her boat and then camping. Then later mom and my step dad would take us out boating regularly. Wish I could afford and justify a boat, great times I look back on. Still garden too. Don't have, to but nice to see the end result after putting in the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerforged Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 Love being outside - most of my work takes place outside. There have been many a day where I spent time just sitting in a ground blind and never pulling the trigger or standing in the river and never wetting a line. I cannot recount the number of times I have just went along on a quail hunt just to watch the dogs work, never even took my shotgun out of the case. I love being outside and thankfully my daughters picked up on that at a very early age and are making sure my grandchildren are doing so as well. the last time I took my oldest grandson trout fishing, when we got to the river he turned to me and asked if it would be okay to just sit and listen for a while and watch the river run. Of course I was perfectly fine with that very thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted May 2, 2019 Report Share Posted May 2, 2019 Man, that is an interesting scenario. I love spending time outdoors, so my answer to the spending time in the woods would be yes. Would I do food plots, get up at 3:30 in the morning, or sit in a tree in crappy weather conditions anymore? No. The ultimate goal for me when hunting is to kill something so my family can eat it. That doesn't mean I have to kill something every time I go out, but the opportunity to do so is a motivating factor. I do enjoy just watching nature and pass on plenty of opportunities to kill an animal for various reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted May 3, 2019 Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 If that happened, nothing would change for me other than I'd not have a license Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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