Blueticker1
Lil-Rokslider
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- Dec 8, 2019
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The fair chase card gets beat to death and ultimately its usually the houndsman and trappers that get the kick in the guts right off the bat, but eventually as hunters we all lose because what's "fair chase" today may not be fair chase tomorrow by the majority opinion. If you have never heard dogs running open mouthed at anything I recommend you try it. When I was a young snot nosed kid I was always around houndsman and one day the fair chase bs got brought up and one of the most respected people in my life asks the feller pissing and moaning about fair chase what all he's hunted in life, the feller says a whole line from Alaska to Mexico and everything in between also Africa and New Zealand as well. So then the old timer says how many of those did you use a guide on? The feller says well most of em roughly 95%, the old timer looks and says well how and the hell is that fair chase? The fellers reply was well I hunted them. Old timer says the hell you did you shot them, that guide has been doing the damn hunting for months for you to come shoot them so he can put food on his table, because of the mere fact you couldn't "hunt" them.
I still live by that today, what my definition of fair chase is something different than someone else's, but who cares as long as they're doing it legal? Is shooting elk or deer at 1k yards hunting? My opinion? Not really hunting but damn fine shooting. I don't have anything against anyone as long as they're in the outdoors in the shooting/ hunting sports and doing everything to the letter of the law. We all need to stick together we have enough outsiders that don't know a thing about any of it judging us, why should we judge each other?
I still live by that today, what my definition of fair chase is something different than someone else's, but who cares as long as they're doing it legal? Is shooting elk or deer at 1k yards hunting? My opinion? Not really hunting but damn fine shooting. I don't have anything against anyone as long as they're in the outdoors in the shooting/ hunting sports and doing everything to the letter of the law. We all need to stick together we have enough outsiders that don't know a thing about any of it judging us, why should we judge each other?