Real Hunter??

[Loop]

What exactaly is a "Real Hunter"? I keep hearing all this talk about matching camo, pick-up trucks or SUV's etc...Well I have a very used SUV, but my camo has not matched since my first pair of insulated(if you could call it that)cover-all's from Wal-Mart and I have been shooting the same gun since I was twelve.
I hunt for a living and could go on and on about the stuff I hear and see every day. Just wandering what ya'll think on the subject.

P.S.
If I was killing any ducks I would not be posting this crap, just bored I guess.
Justin

[H2OFowl]

If 90% of your gear is purchased from Orvis, you are probably not considered a "real hunter".

[Loop]

...good call. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[goosebruce]

Welp, Id say if ya got to put a defintion to it... Think of everyone you know that hunts. Think how many youd go hunting with. Not that you'd take, but that'd take you, and you'd want to hunt with them.
It aint bout money, or whut they drive, or their clothes. But it sure helps pickin em out at the resturant a lot o times. I know guys been in it for a couple years Id say are, and some that been doing for years and years that aint. So it aint born into, or some fraterinty you got to pay yur dues to.
Generally, anyone reading their owners manuals on how to get their truck into 4 wheel drive aint. Or a cell phone call to the shop to find out how to get it out. Generally, guys who launch their boats without pulling the straps off, but sometimes its simply hang overs, so don't use that as a guide. Generally anyone with 4 duck calls that cost as much as a shotgun, but cant blow any of them is a good place to start. I could go on, but I think you know whut Im talking about. travis

[Delta Duck]

A real hunter would have hunted this afternoon knowing he would not see anything.

[damnyankee]

If you have to ask or put a definition to it you ain't.

[no angel]

i don't really know a better way to explain it than being diehard no matter if you have the ducks or not. we don't always kill alot but we have a great time telling jokes and spending goodtimes with friends and if the ducks act right then it was perfect. if the ducks did not show but all of us did it was still fun and we had a hell of a time being where we really wish we were everyday instead of 2 months a year!!!!

[stonekold]

A real hunter? How do you answer these questions?
1) Do you respect the land (or water) you hunt?
2) Do you respect the laws of hunting?
3) Do you respect the other hunters around you?
4) Do you pick your game carefully, or do you shoot everything that moves?
5) Can you take my child with you and he come back with something positive?
6) Can you teach someone else to be a positive role model to someone else in the sport of hunting?

Are you starting to understand what a real hunter is? Today is 2 Jan. That means deer season is over in SC. That makes 2 full seasons that I haven't been in the field. Am I a real hunter? Well, in the 2 years I haven't been in the field, I have taught 2 rifle shooting merit badge classes, 1 shotgun merit badge class, 1 archery merit badge class, and 2 hunter education classes (all for boy scouts). So am I still considered a real hunter?

[BigGun]

I pick my game carefully, after i kill them i put the greenheads in the back and throw the spoons in the ditch. Just kidding. This sounds like one of those rhetorical questions. What is the make up of a real hunter. A 4-10 or a 10 gauge, mossy oak breakup or advantage wetlands. The world may never know.

[BigGun]

Or wether they call with a haydels or a rich-n-tone. Oh wait, we all know the answer to that. Just jerkin some chains. I know tempers are high with few ducks, but nobody take offense.

[goosebruce]

My haydels will call any duck that flies over.... Unfourtantly, its been silent way too damn much this week! bwhahaha. Killed some doves this morning waiting on chance. Seen sum yesterday, aint round today. Busted a real nice hole in the ice. Waited. Drove 150 miles. Came back. Waited some more. Wuz gonna go home, but I wanted to say on msducks I was a real hunter, cause i spent 5 times as long as any thinking indivual would to realize, I werent killing a duck today. Oh, i did mange to bust hell outta one of chances deeks. Actually, shot one, (gun shoots low, sending it back to remington), and ran over a couple. Thought bout hooking up my boat and chasing the ducks down this week, even drug it out of the backyard. But at this point, they either gonna come to me, or they can screw themselves. Aint spending another dime to chase them, and aint gonna break another sweat working for them. Id just as soon this duck season was OVER. Im off till next wednesday, but i think im going back to work early... so i can say, a $#!+ day in the duckblind really isnt any better than a day of work so I can take off this spring instead and go run dogs. travis

[Anatidae]

Good question!......I like what Bill McLure said about some friends ('hunters') he admires. 'Something to the effect.....[They are hunters, responsible for their own sport.....not shooters wanting to be 'taken' to what is widely regarded as hunting. They are self-sufficient, depend on no one, employing traditional skills learned over time.] [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img](HUH!....what dat means?) [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]

Most of the 'real hunters' I know, are older than I am. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] They're the folks I'm still learning from. I don't care to engage in philosophical debate, but I'd have to say I admire those who are able to do more with less.....reducing the art that hunting is, to it's simplest form....you and the birds. Anything outside of that interaction and what appreciation you derive therefrom, [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img](Uh, is that a word?) [img]images/smiles/icon_redface.gif[/img]......is a different relm.

(Guess I need what tha fella called me awhile back.....a grammatical analysis, consultant, critique-er something or another......) [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[ January 05, 2002: Message edited by: Anatidae ]

[mississippi_duc_htr]

I think a "real hunter" is just about what each of you all have described. MY opinon and you guys know about opinons that everybody has one so here's mine.hmmmmmm well heck I guess i dont have one but I did like what goosebruce said. Me and a friend who duck hunts together always smile and laugh @the guys who will come in a store and look like they just fell off the turnip truck and hit every rock in the road, they have new everything on. The guys with the NEW never been worn big brim hats on are the best. You guys know the profile looks like they get out of the house once in awhile to mow the yard, maybe. I would NOT call those guys "real hunters" just tourist or weekend warriors hehehehe. This reminds me of a trip to Grenada a couple of years ago, I was @ qwiksop or somthing like one in Grenada buying some coffee , sausage and biscuits when one of the above described people walked in. I ask him If he had been doing any good, he looked around and told me that they had gotten a few mallards ,wooden ducks and catwalls (and yes I spelled them the way he said it). He told me that he had been hunting LOCALLY with some more people. I asked him where he was going to go today and he said somewhere around Grenada, Then ( do you believe this) the guy ask me if I could give him directions on how to get there. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] well I just looked @ for a second (and I did really try not to) but I busted out laughing right in the guys face It was funny as he_ _ I had tears comming out of my eyes and all. I was barly able to tell him that he was right in the middle of it and i turned around and heehawed all the way to the truck.........."enough said"

[ January 05, 2002: Message edited by: mississippi_duc_htr ]

[Anatidae]

Careful, man.....Goosebruce had one o' those big brim hats on at the MSDucks shootout/cookout back in April......you can bet yo sweet taters, he's a real duck hunter, though.

I've been around some new folks this season. It's real interesting how many seem to be able to talk the 'talk', but trip all over theyselves when they try to walk the 'walk'....that's really what separates the two.....the 'cans' and 'can'ts'.

[chance]

Anat---he hasn't worn that hat since. He has been downgraded to nothing more than a blackbird and decoy shooter. He missed a "brown jobber" standing on the ice thursday and shot a decoy about 15 feet short. Said his gun was shooting low! Man--I could write a book about that top water. BWAHAHAHAH