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Thanks for posting
I wonder some times....
The guy in the video is a guy that makes traditional bows but I bet he would share his camp with someone shooting a crossbow!
I don't think that requires unquestioned agreement on all topics.
I feel that ongoing personal reassessments are a good thing and so is requesting other hunters to do the same.
I'm not talking about any holier than thou rants.
Bloodtrail and I have politely disagreed on some things and shared some decent debate, for example.
I look at those instances as being opportunities to examine my personal hypocrisies and value judgments. I hope that I spurred the same with Bloodtrail.
While I chuckle at some of the emphatic purse swinging and zealous proselytizing that some launch into here, I also feel that if you can't articulate your reasoning for your viewpoint, maybe you haven't thought about it very much. If someone challenges your reasoning, put on your big boy pants and explain your point of view. Don't be stunned if there are people who remain unswayed by your brilliance and commitment.
Bottom line : We don't all have to sing kumbaya in perfect harmony, we just need to avoid being narcissistic dicks.
You can have all kinds of spirited debate with your brothers, just remember that they're family.
That is, at least, my view on it.
I never said love one another. I never even said like one another. I said RESPECT one another, and embrace people BECAUSE of our differences. I cannot imagine a world full of robotic drones who felt the same about everything, but on the same token, open your mind enough to be semi-reasonable, to at least listen to another viewpoint.
Bloodtrail, you and I have chatted, and your follow-up post is perfect. When sharpspur posted this and it went dry so fast, you know he hit the nail on the head. Oh, people read it, and perhaps, even looked within? They just might not have liked what they saw? I see this hypocrisy in people that call themselves Christians as well......the first to judge.
I'm not trying to start a fight here but there are at least two perspectives on the the topic of all hunters standing together for a common good.
One perspective is that every hunter should accept every other hunter's chosen methods and techniques so that we are all united against the enemy.
Another perspective is that hunters should discontinue using the methods and techniques that divide our ranks and create fuel for the anti-hunter's fire.
On one hand a hunter from the first school of thought may say "let me hunt the way I want because if you don't accept me and my methods you are dividing us as hunters".
On the other hand a hunter from the second school of thought may say "stop using the methods that are dividing us and we can all continue to hunt and present a united front against the antis"
Who's right?
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Mike, you might be correct on both hands. A little of both perhaps? Although a debate free thread, and I believe constructive conversation is happening so far, what are those differences you speak of that are dividing us. Before you answer just take religion or politics as an example of division, realize that there are always things that divide us, based on one simple thing. Point of view. So what you might think is a method that divides us, is only obvious, and at the same time just two oposing points of view.
So you need to add a third perspective that is the real fix. Choice! Choose to participate in a form of hunting....or not.
Choose to support a political party....or not.
Choose to support a particular religious belief....or not.
But thinking your point of view is right, based on the principle that it's your opinion, is just silly! Remember that the guy on the other hand thinks his opinion is just as right.
Crossbow or compound or recurve or long bow.....or rock?
Catholic or Buddhist or Muslim or Scientology.....or Atheism?
Republicans or Democrat or Independent.....or all politicians suck?
So instead of getting rid of a method that is dividing us, get rid of the mentality that our opinion is so finite as right, that we bicker over things that are everywhere in our world. Those things are just differing opinions.
Man Mike, if those Christians and Jews would simply realize that the Muslim faith was the only faith, millions of people would not have died over the history of man. Lol, if only so easy right?
The video is a bit hypocritical, because he claims his hunts are not heavily funded. Well, even a self guided hunt like he showed takes a serious amount of money just to get to those places. I appreciate his perspective but, believe we are making some serious mistakes in the way hunting is being administered and marketed. It is going to bite all of us in the long run. It is always the people or groups that think they are so righteous that fall the hardest. Just ask Clint Eastwood.
Instead, the bowhunter joins the non hunter or anti hunter by showing the same disdain towards the weapon that happens to be a crossbow in your case, when in fact, the non hunter or anti hunter does not differentiate between the two? Instead, people like you do?
I must ask the most obvious question. Is killing a deer with a bolt or an arrow any different? Taking the life of a defenseless animal is ultimately the thing that pisses off an anti hunter. Not the weapon. No, the weapon (crossbow) pisses bow hunters off? Is it hard to kill a deer with your bow? I'm not asking is it easier with a crossbow, but instead, hard with a bow? Killing a deer with a vertical is really no harder than shooting a target in your back yard. Do you people really believe the crossbow adds such an advantage that killing a deer is an absolute guarantee, and that much easier than a modern compound? I don't!
Once again, I will not hunt with a crossbow. My bow works just fine....possibly better? I'll never know? Inter-fighting amongst hunters is far more hurtful than the people we already know don't like us.
10, I agree, you are one of the voices of non conformity. Are you really helping though?
By the way one of my honey hole hunting spots is a non/anti hunter property. It is all about building trust and acceptance.