Bill Skinner
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I like hunting. And, no, you didn't put me off, I have pretty much the same idea about a lot of modern hunters.
I managed a place for a rich guy for several years, he and his buddies would show up with all the high tech gear, the latest compound bows, and all that neat stuff. Freaking 7mm and .300 Weatherby Magnum rifles for a whitetail. They couldn't kill a deer if it didn't have its nose in a pile of corn in front of a shooting house. Most couldn't shoot worth a dam, either, because they never practiced and they were afraid of the recoil of their rifles. Before I quit, I spent a LOT of time blood trailing gut shot deer.
I really didn't consider those people hunters, they came up to get drunk and get away from their wives, with some time in the woods thrown in. And they shot deer, mostly does and small bucks because they weren't smart enough to figure out that the large bucks usually won't come to a spot where you just shot a doe with a rifle that was designed to be used in Africa.
KT, have you gone deer hunting with a dart caster and darts? The advantage is no noise, you don't have the thump of the bow string. Disadvantage is all that motion, you need a brush blind or to be behind a tree when you throw. Never tried a tree stand, it would probably work, you better have a good safety harness or some real soft ground.
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