re: Is hunting a "sport"

It takes stamina and commitment, for sure. And can drive you crazy looking for that lost duck or trailing a deer. But, it doesn't make the grade for me as a sport. I've loved every second I've spent hunting, but it is an activity.

A great one for sure.

Oh I concur whole-heartedly.
But the thread first appeared on the OT and I just couldn't leave it alone while the Nancie's had at it.

Yea. I'm pretty sure a lot of the OT pussies from the beginning of the thread couldn't hang with the public land stuff. Or at least they'd get freaked out by all the icky spiders you run into in the dark on the way in and want to go home

No skill or athletic ability??? Instead of watching hunting on tv, you should go out and try it. Hunt public land. You should come duck hunting with me one day, and if your legs aren't too sore the next day, we can go for a deer hunt. I promise after a day wading through the marsh your legs will hurt so bad you won't want to get out of bed the next day. And I guarantee you wouldn't see shite if you came deer hunting with me. If you could pack the stand in the woods, and I showed you how to use it, you wouldn't make it 15 feet up the tree. You would most likely have to cut branches with a hand saw which takes athletic ability. And if you did somehow manage to kill a deer, I doubt you'd be able to pull it out. The walk is so long I use a cart, put a 120 pound deer on it and pull it over logs and cypress knees. Considering you started this thread, I already know you'd cry like a bitch after an hour afield with me. It takes both skill and athletic ability, therefore I classify it as a sport.

It's not a sport but it does require skill.

Many non-hunters think you can just sit in a stand and just kill stuff. Doesn't really work this way. Especially with hunting public land without nice food plots and equipment to clear out land. Even some leases I was in, we hardly ever killed bucks in the food plots. Most of the bucks were killed in the woods in hard to reach places.

For me, I have to go out and scout the deer and find out where they are at and how they are moving through the property. Sometimes you have to move your stand a few times to pattern them. And since I bowhunt a lot, you have to play the wind and keep that in mind while hunting them. Then you have to make a good shot which can be hard to do with a bow when it's 40 or below and you are wearing a bunch of clothes.

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It takes no athletic ability

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Full of shite.

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It takes no skill

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SURRRRRE. Like to see you sneak up on a chicken in the freezer section in a store.

You can tell this started on the OT

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You can tell this started on the OT

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one of his buddies dared him to post it here

There has been lots of stupid crap posted over there lately, easy to get the usual's over there fired up in a thread...

who cares if its considered a sport? those that indulge love it, and those who don't, dislike it. to each his own.
personally, i love deer hunting to the tune of 40-50 hunts per season. it's more of a challenge versus trying to classify it as a "sport."

Louisiana isnt known as sportsmans paradise because of the saints and pelicans

Its a dang sport this year...