When is it no longer 'hunting'?

I would venture to say that it is no longer hunting when these bucks all walked into the camp and asked if they could pull up a bar stool and talk about pussy.

I recently got out of a lease because it was a feeder paradise. The guys working shift work could keep the deer in their area with feed and they took all the big bucks. 9-5 guys like myself who couldn't feed all week didn't see as many deer.

I like to hunt oaks that drop a lot of acorns. Maybe I'm old school, but I'm kinda against bait hunting for the most part.

Baiting is not allowed at our out-of-state land and we have a small lease in-state where it's not necessary.

To each his own, where do you draw the line? High fence, low fence? 300 acre fenced ranch, 6000 acre fenced ranch? Shooting quail some oneone put out earlier that day? Going on a guided duck hunt and sitting in a blind that the guide set up and put out decoys , does all the calling and tells you when to stand up and shoot? Going on a guided fishing trip and the guide says to throw this bait over there?

I think there should be full disclosure, when you show some one a picture to tell them it was in a fenced situation etc, but at the end of the day to each his own





ETA : my disclosure I have been on guided duck hunts, quail shoots, guided fishing trips but have never been on a paid deer hunt or hunter in a high fence situation

is this someone you know? I would hate to have to pay the taxi bill must less the cost of the hunt.

that being said, those would look great on my wall.

I doubt very seriously, Doo knows for 100% that one guy killed all.of those. Yeah it was on his Facebook, but its most likely from his club. This is a silly thread.

I don't.

It was an out of state hunt, the person said they did. The state (Illinois) from what I looked up, gives a quota of permits for deer to be taken by firearm. Feel free to correct me.

They either-own the land and harvested their quota, or went on a trip where the landowner sells the tags.

In either situation, my point is... do you call that hunting? To spend a weekend in the woods and hang a head on the wall? I enjoy the challenge of scouting and hunting.

It is what it is. If you have the money, you want venison, you don't have enough time because of work, wouldn't you want to go to Illinois to hunt trophy venison? I love the challenge of hunting as well, but I would love to go on a trophy hunt once a year. Only with a bow.

Hunting is only fun for me when it is on my land (or on public land) that I manage, scout, and place stands on, then drag the deer out, clean and eat myself. On someone else's land that someone else did all the work on, it feels much more like shooting a goat. I am one guy who will never be caught going on a paid whitetail hunt no matter how rich I am.

I would wager that is taken in the NE or midwest, where they may have a one week or similarly short season. All the hunters go out at once, and stack them like cordwood. It seems excessive to us, because we have a 2-3 month gun season, and spread the kills out over time. I highly doubt one person shot all those deer.