BIG Buck Down

[BLUEBULLS]

Is this a hunting site or cosmopolitin. I'm sorry fellas but I love my kids just as much as the next guy but come on this is starting sound like a womens magazine article. Lets talk hunting!

let's talk hunting??? naw, lets just continue to criticize everything we read

[hunterheinz]

Ahh did I hit a nerve Bone?

[hunterheinz]

Look in the record books bone I dont shoot cubs

[400out]

Iget in trouble all the time with the Mrs 400.  You might as well too.

It comes with the territory! It's just how it is, the closer the season gets the worse I get 

[400out]

Well heinz this is a family site! it Important to balance them out, It's tough but has to be done!

[JackOfAllTrades]

OK now... Heinz has a point... This is a hunting site.

But please realize that this thread has turned/changed subject, as many discussions do when the main topic has petered out.

How many of us though, have sat on a ridge top, not seeing what we expected for hours, then have let our minds wander off to thinking about the kids or wifey.. (Wives and mothers may be surprised what we do think about when we're sitting precariously on a fallen log or boulder at 7,000 feet in the pounding sun or driving rain looking down a 2,000 foot cliff to the valley below).

Like I said in my post. Kids are different. Parents are different. Some don't feel guilty about abandoning thier kids while we go experience our chosen passion. Some of us do.

As was said, there needs to be balance. Those that have imbalance are likely to have the kids that don't appreciate life or themselves become the troubled ones. I have a friend that lives for the outdoors. His kid is an absolute troublemaker. -Dad's never home!

 -Steve

[jjhunter]

I don't know......I think Austin Powers turned out pretty good?   

I have to kinda agree with Heinz.......I mean, you have to think about us younger guys who don't really want to hear about the reality of our future lives.  We (at least I) am quite content living in a current state of ignorance.   

 

[hunterheinz]

Well lets see hear if you want to really talk about kids. Why dont you involve your kids instead of trying to get away from them. Take them with you like I did. My son is the best hunter and shot I know at 16 yrs old-6 deer,3 bear 1 antelope numerous grouse-ducks-pheasant-coyotes. As for in school activities he was on the all star baseball team 4 yrs in a row which I coached one year as with the regular season team for 1 year. He gets good grades and and all of his teachers think he is a great kid. So I guess hunting doesn't make them turn out to be Austin Powers. He is my best buddy and goes with me every time. Try that and you won't have to miss them.

[hunterheinz]

I do have to admit though I don,t think about the wife too much.LOL

[JackOfAllTrades]

Try that and you won't have to miss them.

I am truly glad it's worked out for you and your son.  Doesn't quite work for everyone. Trust me, I'd love to have my boys with me most every time I hit the hills. But I do realize that they have their social network, sports that I don't coach or am involved in with them anymore. Baseball is a spring sport last time I checked. Not near as many conflicts with hunting seasons. (I have an Allstar Baseball player too)

Those of you that are not into Soccer must realize that there is no season. IT NEVER ENDS! You go from school to P2/P1 club team during summer and into fall, then on to indoor at night during the winter. And to compound things, my eldest is trying to get on a team in Canada.  I'll have to tear apart and clean my damn truck to make sure there's no contrband inside. 

-Steve

[boneaddict]

You didn't hit a nerve at all Heinze.  I think its ignorant of you to think hunting doesn't involve family and thats how I took the tone of your statement.  I don't expect any of you to relate to or care about my situation.  Some do and its a conversation.  This is sort of a magazine, if you feel its cosmo, well then pick up another.   I bet I have added more hunting related material on here than you have, so I'm not too worried about what I contribute.  If you don't like it, don't read it.  Its actually nice to relate with other folks that might feel they have a similiar situation or outlook.  I'm certainly glad your case has worked out perfectly for you, and I am glad you do realize family is important(my misinterpretation of the tone).    Believe me, my kids are quite involved but thanks for the suggestion.  Unlike some, I don't have it all figured out and am not egotistical enough to think that I do and have no problem listening to what other people think.  I find their experiences important and interesting to listen too.  Feel free to ignore me if you feel I am too cosmo for you and my vulnerabilities make you feel uncomfortable.   

[WDFW-SUX]

Hunting with little ones at home is way way more difficult than just the wife.

Im struggling with it right now.

[Ray]

Ain't that the truth. Not everyone's family and lifestyle is the same.  Hunting is not necessarily done to escape kids and family. Sometimes it is perceived by the hunter as the activity pulling you one direction and the family in another. It is such situations which can force a hunter to make decisions which they may not have had to in times past because the lack of family ties or other responsibilities. For one simple example, I simply cannot take my daughter up into the mountains 8 miles on my back during the rain and camp for 3-5 days at a time. I don't believe having a measure of differing family accomplishments in hunting or life offers anything but negativity to the topic. I also viewed Heinz's response as nothing but an attempt at diminishment of someone else's experience.

[boneaddict]

Look in the record books bone I dont shoot cubs

That was in regards to your guesstimate on that cub in the other thread and your more recent dig on the score on the buck in this thread.   Once again since I share most things, reply #71 has the official score sheet posted for everyone to see, mistakes and all.   Some might appreciate all that I share.  If not, again please ignore me.  You should entertain us with photos, locals, stories of all your great adventures.  It would be awesome to hear some of your son's adventures on here as well.  and HEY, if he does something great in sports, put it in the general forum, or photography or something like that as this is a family site, we are a family here, and many of us enjoy hearing success and sometimes failures just like any other good campfire might yeild.   I would like to see photos of the 200 incher and I even enjoy nice pics of does, spikes and two points too.  How about a trophy room shot.   Anything positive would be nice.


I agree sux.   It also has to do with being selfish or feeling you are selfish when you burden other folks with your work, or the money you spend on and on.  Having an understanding spouse helps, and even then there are responsibilities.   Throw in a non-understanding spouse and thats a whole other cosmo article for Heinze to review.

[bearhunter99]

I just can't figure out why someone has to post derogatory comments aimed at someone else's family life?  There are thousands of other posts to read.  If you don't like a particular conversation don't slam the person for it, just move on to one that is more interesting to you.  I also don't agree with the comments about the buck's size, there are score sheets for it and to tell you the truth I have bucks that don't score well at all that look way bigger that the ones who do score well.  My best and most impressive looking buck is not the best scoring buck on my wall.

Don't just pop in and start slamming someone because their views are different and I honestly think that the comments in this post are perfectly suited for a hunting community.  Everybody else seemed to enjoy the thread and there was a fairly pleasant conversation that I myself enjoyed reading because it hit home for me.  I however took the time to read the other 15 or so pages prior to blasting someone about cosmo and the size of their deer.

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Carry on Bone