Bob Nelson 35Whelen
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ArtThe question is not would you ever shoot off of the truck but what do you consider hunting and what do you consider shooting. Is arriving at your whitetail stand before sun up and watching a 1-acre food plot all day hunting or shooting? Is working behind a pointer and flushing a pheasant after your shotgun is shouldered hunting or shooting? Is standing on station in the Arden forest waiting for driven boar to run by hunting or shooting? Is being helicoptered to the top of a mountain in New Zealand to get closer to Red Stag or Tahr hunting or shooting? Is hiking up a mountain side to glass for Elk at 400 + yards hunting or shooting? Is driving to the exact same spot to glass for Elk at 400 + yards hunting or shooting? Is waiting on a river bank for a bull Hippo to expose his brain hunting or shooting? Is waiting in a blind for a Leopard to come to the bait with your rifle firmly supported by a portable shooting bench hunting or shooting? Is sitting in an established ground blind or tree stand watching a waterhole 20 yards away hunting or shooting?
In my opinion they are all hunting but some of the hunts are more challenging than others and that is where the difference come in, what I find challenging you may not and visa versa. On our family hunting land in Michigan we have several elevated shooting shacks and several tree stands to hunt out from, when it is 12 degrees and the snow is falling and unlike my father and brother who choose to hunt in one of our insulated shooting shacks with a propane heater and I choose to “Man-Up” as we call it and hunt from one of our tree stands does not mean that my father and brother where not hunting. No, it just means that my hunt was more challenging and a lot colder than theirs.
What you find challenging in your 30's you may find impossible in your late 60's and 70's does that mean you should stop hunting or just change the way you hunt.
Couldn't have said it better my self.
As we get older our methods change to suit our physical limitations.
Bob