Captain Tred Barta - HUNTING: Tech Hunt

[marlineer]

Hard to believe and to understand with 38 thousand people on this site that only a handful are hunters, how is that? there has to be something as hunters we could go back and forth about, where are the real hunters ???

All Us hunters are in "Welcome to My World" WahoonBox has a hunting forum there!

[WAHOONBOX]

TRED HAS OBVIOUSLY PACKED UP & GIVEN UP HIS HIS SHORT LIVED CAREER ON THE INTERNET.....TOO BAD...AND SO SAD......HE COULD HAVE EARNED A LOT...I MEAN LEARNED A LOT HERE JUST AS WE DO.....


WELCOME TO MY WORLD IS ALIVE AND KICKING....AND HAS A FANTASTIC HUNTING FORUM....SO JOIN US THERE....SOON I WILL BE POSTING UP AN OVER THE SHOULDER ROCKY MT SHEEP KILL VIDEO WITH BLACKPOWDER FILMED BY ONE OF SFC'S MORE ACTIVE MEMBERS

[Just.Fishing]

Tred Barta is great. and what he says about everything in this world is just meant to make everything easier until everything requires no effort. then kids are bored and they get put on aderol. its a messed up world but its what we are told we want. but i don't go hunting- not the easy way or the hard way. not my thing.

[NY Bearhunter]

Your comments are interesting... But, trying to understand just what your saying is like being turned around in the woods...

[Steve280]

It looks like this thread is long dead but I feel I need to reply just the same.

I've all but given up hunting. It's been 5 years since I last went goose and deer hunting and before that it was 6 years when I was quail hunting. No one loved hunting more than me. Now I don’t miss it a bit.

At first it was the slob hunters that turned me off and spoiled the hunt. Now it’s the unabashed commercialism and catering to the lowest common denominator. I first heard about the death of hunting back in the early 1960s. Back then in my youth I always pictured it as some tangible thing where all of the sudden there would be the confiscation of guns, laws being written that would kill hunting directly, game stocks dying off due to neglect and lack of conservation, pollution, the commies, or some other malady. But one look through a Cabela’s catalog shows that it’s dying a relatively slow death from another direction. Hunters are killing it themselves with technology being a major accomplice.

Regardless of your hunting philosophy, what is undeniable is that technology crossed the line somewhere in the past decades from logical progress to just plain silliness. Camouflage has moved from concealment to fashion statement. Scopes have progressed from matching the capability of our ammunition and rifles to encouraging shots that can only be described as absurd. And of course the old favorites, those compound bows and black powder rifles that make mockery of “primitive” hunting. All of this technology has a singular purpose of disengaging the hunter from hunting. Kind of ironic when you think about it.

On another note, there’s the cartoon aspect of all of this “technology”. Where is it that American hunters have the need for 50 different types of shooting sticks, 100 different patterns of camouflage, 150 different types of hunting boots, 200 different types of ammunition, 400 types of duck decoys, 500 different hunting knives, and 1000 different kinds of jackets and pants? Supply and demand? No, that’s about price, not choice. Market need? Hardly. Just call it the Starbuck’s syndrome – the illusion of a meaningful difference. But people are stupid enough to think Mossy Tree Green Sapling Rabbit Hunter pattern is better than Realbush Smell-Lok 3D Bunny Camo. Poor rabbit doesn’t have a chance.

If that’s the way it is, so be it. I just don’t want to be party to it. I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Barta’s philosophy towards engaging the difficulties of hunting with open arms instead of hiding from it (and concealing one’s lack of hunting skills) through whatever technology du jour happens to be available. Each hunter has the privilege of drawing the line where they want with regards of how much they wish to isolate themselves from the challenges of hunting and, sad to say, the majority have chosen to buy into this.

For those of you that don’t know about it, we already have the new Gold Standard in hunting technology; internet hunting (webcams, remote controlled guns). Pro-gun and pro-hunt groups have decried this as not “real’ hunting and violating the rules of fair chase. But hunting a deer over a food plot in a heated blind with a scoped crossbow and enough charcoal-lined/scent masking clothing to choke a horse is just fine , thank you very much. And you got to love those moto-ducks; flapping wings, swimming in circles and dipping for food so much that it looks like an attraction at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Those are OK too. As for those slobs that would hunt from their computer!? They’re totally disconnected from the experience. Yeah. Right.

There, I feel a little better.