Posted on 11/25/2007 8:09:16 AM PST by rellimpank
Bill Torhorst cares deeply about hunting and is working hard to pass that passion on to his 10-year-old son, Carson. But he's finding it difficult.
Torhorst is motivated at least partly by his own memories of hunting when he was a boy. He holds tightly to the memories of days afield in the countryside around Burlington, where he grew up. He hunted with his mother and father and uncles and other relatives and he remembers not only the hunting but the times spent with those he loved and the things he learned about the natural world, knowledge he now passes on to his son.
"When we'd hunt turkeys in the spring,'' Torhorst remembered, "my Dad taught me how to look for spring mushrooms. I can still remember stumbling onto our first batch of morels together
(Excerpt) Read more at madison.com ...
Wish I had the time and the money to become a hunter.
Sadly, the state government bureaucrats are making it prohibitively difficult to hunt, and state wildlife mismanagement doesn’t help.
Why hunt when you can sit in the comfort of your home and blow people away in video games? Or, go to some paint ball establishment and shoot at your buddies in make believe urban warfare? Just asking ...
In the Old World, the game belonged to the King. In the New World, the game initially belonged to the common man.
Now, through ever-increasing state and federal government regulation, the New World game belongs to the state.
Sorta coming full circle.
I took my 14 year old daughter deer hunting with me this year. Next year she goes solo.
No great cost, either. She’s using the old winchester model 94 that was my first gun. Her older sisters have already killed with this gun. She will be the fourth person to cut her “hunting teeth” on it.
As for time...How can you NOT spend time with your children?
You have to travel hundreds of miles anymore to find a place to hunt, often out-of-state, and states charge non-residents far more than residents. By the time you factor in all of the costs, you probably are paying more than $100 per bird and $25 per lb (or more) for venison. I can get the best steak at the local mkt for far cheaper than that.
If you had to lease the land to hunt on, you would see how expensive hunting has become.
Good grief! Is hunting the only way to spend time with your children?
I priced reloading and only save two bucks per 50 rounds of 9mm. Less for rifle calibers. Several years ago, while I still hunted, I came back to my truck to find some kids putting a jack under my truck ?? They left when I fired a shot into a tree about 30 yds from them. I was still 150 yds away. So much for hunting "public" lands.
It’s the beer that runs the cost up...;^)
I hunted with my dad when I was young. Sure, we’d take costly weekend trips, but there were a lot of quick day trips to the outskirts of town to pop off a few quail or chukar. I’m thinking about picking it up again; it was a lot of fun and good exercise, and fresh kill is the best meat you’re going to find.
I harvested my first deer (actually my first 4 deer) with a Savage 250-3000 that was purchased shortly after its introduction many a moon ago. It was the first rifle purchased by my late FIL, as he had theretofore hunted with inherited firearms. My husband shot his first deer with this rifle. This year my youngest will use this rifle for his first deer. We get a real kick out of the tradition.
Take a young person hunting ping!
“You have to travel hundreds of miles anymore to find a place to hunt, often out-of-state, and states charge non-residents far more than residents. By the time you factor in all of the costs, you probably are paying more than $100 per bird and $25 per lb (or more) for venison. I can get the best steak at the local mkt for far cheaper than that.”
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I guess I’m lucky.I walk out my back yard and there’s deer, grouse, wild turkey...etc...
Hell, the apple trees in my side yard are a constant hangout for deer.
We’re over run here in Ct with deer.
Good job!!
I’m not a hunter, but have no qualms about it. Texas imported some mule deer into the area around my farm several years ago and they have really taken off. I counted 23 while I was out there last week. I didn’t realize there were so many. I called around to my hunter friends to try and find someone ... anyone ... who could come out during the one week they allow hunting in Bailey County, but nobody was available. Had I given them a few more weeks’ notice, they may have been able to come, but not this year.
I’m wondering how many we will have next year and whether I should prepare to do some feeding over the winter. I hate to see them get overpopulated.
I think the herd has decided to adopt me. The last day I was out there mowing, they actually sat in the middle of the area I was mowing and watched me go round and round. I can just imagine what’s going through their heads. “Those humans. Why can’t they just sit still for a little while?”
“Farmers who enroll in the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s “red tag” program can get one doe tag for every five acres of ground in crop production. They can in turn give those tags to hunters,”
Between me and my relatives, we would have well over 100 tags by those rules. I hope the trouble never gets that bad.
Don’t know if you have this program in TX but comes in handy here.
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