re: Do you hunt and/or fish?

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yes...the outdoor board is what originally brought me to TD...

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Same. I used to hunt when I was a young lad. But I just fish nowadays. Fishing has always been my number 1 love.

I do both. For multiple reasons.

I hunt deer in MS and saltwater fish in LA.

For starters, it is a connection to the old natural world. Its the serenity of the cold frost mornings with the woods coming alive or seeing a sunrise over the marsh. And all the bullshite in my life (bills, work, flaws about humanity, toxic political division) just disappear and its better than any kind of therapy.

Other reason, i absolutely refuse to rely on a store for my meat consumption. I would much rather prefer an animal that i humanely harvested over some concentration camp style corporate farmed pig/cow/chicken.

I fish every time I'm given the chance. Grew up floating down a small river in a motorless jonboat with my Graddad, catching bass. Never on Sunday though, that was the Lord's day and we don't fish. It was an 8 hr float from bridge to bridge and we'd eat Vienna sausage and cheese crackers. Sometimes we'd come home with 25 bass, my biggest was just over 5lbs. It wasn't unusual that he'd fire up the fish cooker and we'd eat them that evening.

That's still the fishing I prefer, I have a river close to the house, but I have a jonboat with a motor. I can hear my Grandad's voice sometimes when I hang a big one. "Wooo boy!" he'd holler at me. "Get 'em, get 'em!" I still have a few of his rods and reels, gathering dust in the garage.

I've hunted when I was younger, but I only went a few times as a kid, squirrel and quail. Same grandad would take me, but it wasn't as regular as fishing.

In college, I had a roommate that got me into deer hunting and I got an 8 pt on the wall, thanks to him. My fam doesn't love venison so I've never pursued deer hunting much in the last 20 years. I get the occasional invite from buddies, and I'll gladly go sit in the woods. I enjoy the stillness and being part of the nature scene, hearing the woods come to life. But I've let shootable deer walk, just because I don't need the meat and they've not been bigger than what's on my wall.

I also don't look the part when I go with my buddies. I look like a thrift store hunter. I've got an ancient 30-30 and old coveralls from Wal Mart, vintage 1990. They look like the pages of the Bass Pro catalog with the latest gear and optics.

My handle isn't an accident.

I hunt from the time it opens in the fall, until they day the last season closes in Feb. I don't really Turkey hunt because I don't have a place, but run into the same issues, but would love to.

Spring baseball for my kids has crimped my spring fishing, camping and gardening for a few years now. I'll make 1-2 salt trips per year and twice that many in fresh, but could fish every day as well.

It is a waste of time for me. Costs a lot of money and I don't have any desire to do either.

Did both when I was younger, but just grew out of it and had more interesting things to do.

Also feel a lot of deer hunters I know are hypocritical. They talk about hunting for meat and how it is so good, but when it comes down to it, they are looking only for horns, so it is more of a sport than anything to them. I much rather beef and pork than deer meat anyway.

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They talk about hunting for meat and how it is so good, but when it comes down to it, they are looking only for horns

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I’ll shoot a doe if I need meat, but I’m chasing big bucks. I don’t claim it’s not for the sport of it, but I do eat deer meat more than anything else. The ones that annoy me are the “meat hunters” shooting tiny arse yearling bucks and then complaining there’s no big bucks where they hunt.

Yep and yep. Moving to LA in late 80s thru 90s just supercharged it. Took up spearfishing in La and it was a blast, miss those days. I'm to old for spearfishing now and live on great lakes, no spearfishing. I fish and hunt a lot still, my daughter fishes w me and son hunts. So passed it along. My father fished a lot but I hunt more than he did.

This was originally asked on the OT-why would admin move to the OB where 99.9% of baws hunt fish or both?