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Gr8bawana

Gr8bawana

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Just wanted to give my .02 worth the cover story of the Oct-Nov issue.
While that is truely a magificent buck, I don't really enjoy reading about a buck that was being watched all summer long along with another monster buck on private property by the guide.
Basically the "hunter" just showed up and the guide already knew the general area the buck was using, although it did take them a whole half day.
Kinda takes the hunting part out of the hunt.
Stories like that are not why I subscribe to Eastmans'.
 
Slugz

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x 3 legal hunt is a legal hunt and I support that.......however comma I'd like to see all the articles headers say "public"
I understand the needs to "fill the schedule" and "commitments" of running a business. Its a balancing act with many arms pulling on the final product.
 
Colorado Cowboy

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I an sure this is what happens on a lot of guided hunts on private property. I live in a rural area with lots of agriculture mixed in. By county ordinance no property can be less than 3 acres. We have lots of hay ranches, apple orchards and small residential properties with tons of deer. Down the road from me is a parcel of about 50 acres of hay with 2 small apple orchards. The orchards are leftover from what was a larger single orchard that covered the property many, many years ago. The apples are not harvested and left on the trees. The deer spend a lot of time munching on them. Every year there are a couple of pretty nice bucks that stay there. The owner leases the hunting to an outfitter who puts up a couple of ground blinds. Right next door are a number of residences within a couple of 100 yards. Hunters are paying around 4 grand to "hunt" these bucks. I don't consider this hunting, it's strikes me as more like killing!

I don't see a whole lot of difference between the story in the magazine and what I see here. Sure the deer can leave the property, but with a food source and no one bothering them, they probably don't go far.

I remember several years ago there was a giant elk taken in Utah by a non resident hunter on private property. There were a lot of rumors going around about the outfitter "keeping" the elk on private property until his client could get there to fill his tag.

What's my point? I don't call this hunting...................

I forgot to say anything about the article. It was well writen and good photos and I really don't have a problem with it in the magazine. Just not my style of hunting!
 
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kidoggy

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I , myself, would feel no great sense of accomplishment or pride in having to pay for a hunt in order to to kill a monster buck.
that said,hunting, harvesting, killing?it don't really matter what one calls it,if it is legally done,to each their own.


the O.P stated that is not why he subscribed to eastmans. nothing at all wrong with that,however, like it or not it IS why some do.

let's be honest, a large majority of the monster bucks hanging in eastern mansions were killed exactly this way. I figure what the heck ,they paid the fee ,let em brag. if I don't like it ,I won't listen or read about it.
 
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Horsenhike

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I hunt to be in the hunt. The whole experience including failure. This makes me a hunter.

The last thing I want is someone holding my hand and pointing out where to shoot.

Nothing against others way of doing things, but for me the adventure of it all is much more important than the kill.
 
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badgerbob

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I think this is what money does to people. If money was absolutely no issue, in what ways would it influence your hunting? I would like to think that, for me, not much. But don't know for sure because fortunately I will never have that problem.
 
kidoggy

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if money were no problem ,I would probably hunt less , eat more beef, spend more time fishing from my brand new boat, live on a secluded tropical island island in the summer , winter in idaho and play most days on my brand new snowmobile and play most nights with my new snowbunny.
 
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dan maule

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Horsenhike said:
I hunt to be in the hunt. The whole experience including failure. This makes me a hunter.

The last thing I want is someone holding my hand and pointing out where to shoot.

Nothing against others way of doing things, but for me the adventure of it all is much more important than the kill.
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X2 I feel the same way
 
mnhoundman

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I agree, love to be able to hunt, bringing home an animal is just a bonus. I wouldn't be able to follow someone around and shoot what he tells you, but that's just me.

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RICMIC

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There are many, many guided hunts that are likely far tougher than what most of us can do on our own. I have hunted the west on about 20 trips the last 11 years, and the five hunts in wilderness areas with an outfitter where not easy by any measure. I was successful with a good critter each time, but according to the Colorado Guide's association, their success on elk is around 25%, and in WY about 58%. I would suppose that the hunts on private land is on the high side of that average, and in wilderness areas, on the low side. I love nothing more than a DIY backpack hunt for mule deer, but have been chasing the point draw more than hunting the last couple years. Guided hunts can be a true high adventure, but I agree with the original post that the story behind it is of more interest to me than just another big dead animal.
 
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