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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: WOLFMAN on October 01, 2008, 02:48:15 PM

Title: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: WOLFMAN on October 01, 2008, 02:48:15 PM: I ran into some very rude folks last weekend while bear hunting in the high country.They were the tree hugging,flower sniffing type. It didnt bother me the way they acted but those type think that they own the mountain and hunters shoudnt be up there. Any body else ever have run ins like this.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: Broken Arrow on October 01, 2008, 03:02:35 PM: Given the situation with the shot hiker, you can expect this....tentions will he high. Were all stewards of the land, best to just be curtious or get off the trails when you see them comming.When I have these encounters i just try to be a positive and respectful as i can, look the hunter screwed up on this, so we have to prove to them it was an isolated event.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: Trophy Hunter on October 01, 2008, 03:32:57 PM: Personally i love the look i get from them while i am packing a gun and the have a granola bar :)
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: slbeasley on October 02, 2008, 03:33:35 PM: You didn't run into this group did you?

:'(
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: rjm5 on October 02, 2008, 03:46:52 PM: It seems like I always run into a few during hunting season but there all pretty nice. You just have to remember there scared of guns. When I was bow hunting the high country they thought it was great because they think its way more of a challenge. You hear things like I never want to see an animal die but if your gonna hunt it should be with a bow. The bottom line is there just scared of guns and don't understand that its not as easy as they think it is with a gun. You just have to be nice and set a good example.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: granola/hippyslayer on October 03, 2008, 03:50:07 PM: I have had that experience quite a bit in this state . Where they give you the down the nose look. like what are you doing here? If you get up really early hike in real far and hunt all day you probably won't see them except for their litter of granola bar wrappers. oh yes they litter.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: rasbo on October 03, 2008, 04:07:58 PM: bad reaction to shrooooms :dunno:
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: PWN Kurt on October 04, 2008, 08:33:25 PM: Give em a brake. The wilderness is for all of us to enjoy. And, they might be our best allies when it comes to preserving wild areas.

I'm more concerned about development than people walking in the woods.

I'm running into more road hunters, poachers and intoxicated hunters than I do flowerchildren.

Set a good example.

Kurt
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: fishing is for fools on October 04, 2008, 10:16:30 PM: I see them more when I am scouting, then hunting. But I don't hunt on the trails. I also had two people come up the road I was on and tried to make a lot of noise to scare the deer >:(
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: deaddog on October 07, 2008, 12:45:43 PM: Quote from: slbeasley on October 02, 2008, 03:33:35 PM
You didn't run into this group did you?

:'(
I understand the pain they feel over that poor tree. I feel the sameway for the grass everytime I have to mow. waa! waa! snivel! snivel! Its a very strange world we live in!
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: klickitat on October 08, 2008, 02:11:48 PM: Ok, I know that I am new to this board and what I am about to say is going to upset some. I am not the kind who really cares though. If you stand for something you are going to make enemies. If you do not stand for something then you are tollerated but hated by all.

I let everyone enjoy the same resources that I am able to enjoy, however I will never stand by and let ANYONE take food off of my table or stand in the way of passing down my heritage to my children.

Do not think for one minute that compromising or backing down from the eko comunists that some how you are showing them how good you are or setting a good example. They have nothing to loose and everything to gain. They want to take it all away from you, and when you have nothing and win a small compromise it is a victory. They do not care about you, your heritage or even your hungry family. They do not care if we are the ones who pays for most of the Fish and Game through our taxes. They have no clue about keeping nature in check and what it takes to MANAGE animal populations. They only see you as the enemy. So grow a set and stand up to these types at every step of the way no matter how small it is.

If you have any doubts about this just look out how they are destroying every part of our society. BTW it is not their fault. They are sick and know no better. It is our fault for letting them. For being spineless and too willing to turn from conflict. Take your set out of your wifes purse and be a man for a change.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: Broken Arrow on October 08, 2008, 02:23:54 PM: Thanks for your great insite klickatat...think i will just keep being repectful and work on education vs hostility. When I met my wife she was an anti hunter, non meat eater, and complety uneducated about hunting.....now she hunts, loves venison and lets me hunt 3 weeks a year. oh yeah, we still hike!
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: klickitat on October 08, 2008, 02:48:59 PM: You must of have missed a few things:
#1 I let everyone enjoy the same resources that I am able to enjoy, however I will never stand by and let ANYONE take food off of my table or stand in the way of passing down my heritage to my children.
but hey, I am glad the teacher is educated.

#2 Who stole away our rights to run hounds and bait?
#3 Who stole away the rights to hunt in certain areas?

You think that because you found one ignorant person that they are all ignorant. WRONG! They are not ignorant they know exactly what they are doing. All the education in the world is not going to change them. Every time you compromise with them you loose. You had better stop and evaluate your enemy, because your enemy knows you and is laughing all the way to the bank with your naivety.

BTW, I am glad your wife "LETS YOU HUNT 3 WEEKS A YEAR" good for you. I bet you just can't wait to take your set out of her purse and wear them for a few days a year.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: Trophy Hunter on October 08, 2008, 02:54:22 PM: WOW

kind of passionate about a little humor Klickitat.
Good..........

P.S. Love the video
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: Broken Arrow on October 08, 2008, 02:55:31 PM: great 3rd post....good luck to ya!
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: cackle on October 08, 2008, 02:58:17 PM: :yeah:
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: dirty.dan4 on October 08, 2008, 06:15:43 PM: I couldn't even make it through the hugger video. Don't get me wrong, I don't like to see our forests get mowed down, but I couldn't take the whining and crying.

I have been deer hunting and had the huggers drive down the gravel roads at breakneck speeds, laying on the horn. Kinda rude. I don't go to there rallies and act like a *censored*, why cant they do the same. I know that the recent events make any run in with a hugger an uneasy situation. That is no reason for the hostility. If they would open there eyes and see that we as hunters are the best conservationists. Pack it in, pack it out, preventing forest fires, reporting poachers, ethical shots of game, these are all things that I would think that the huggers would appreciate. Until then, we should just keep on keeping on and try our best to deal with there hi jinx.

Sorry to ramble, just had to say it.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: deaddog on October 14, 2008, 01:45:08 PM: Quote from: klickitat on October 08, 2008, 02:48:59 PM
You must of have missed a few things:
#1 I let everyone enjoy the same resources that I am able to enjoy, however I will never stand by and let ANYONE take food off of my table or stand in the way of passing down my heritage to my children.
but hey, I am glad the teacher is educated.

#2 Who stole away our rights to run hounds and bait?
#3 Who stole away the rights to hunt in certain areas?

You think that because you found one ignorant person that they are all ignorant. WRONG! They are not ignorant they know exactly what they are doing. All the education in the world is not going to change them. Every time you compromise with them you loose. You had better stop and evaluate your enemy, because your enemy knows you and is laughing all the way to the bank with your naivety.

BTW, I am glad your wife "LETS YOU HUNT 3 WEEKS A YEAR" good for you. I bet you just can't wait to take your set out of her purse and wear them for a few days a year.

[/quote :yeah: I had a wife who thought she would let me hunt too. i cant even remember her name now!
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: Broken Arrow on October 14, 2008, 03:00:58 PM: Here is to you macho guys..... :brew: that don't have to check with your wife and and/or kids schedule...and can hunt every day you want. Awesome for you......I on the other hand, feel pretty privileged that i have a wife that is supportive of me missing work, football practice and bringing home game and while she deals with all that goes on while we both work and I'll, gone for 2 weeks at a time. I know her name....and will just keep her as i have in the past 14 years, being a husband and a father is a partnership.....not a dictatorship!
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: sisu on October 14, 2008, 06:37:43 PM: Quote from: slbeasley on October 02, 2008, 03:33:35 PM
You didn't run into this group did you?

:'(
Unbelievable!
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: lewy on December 24, 2008, 07:49:42 AM: When im scouting the high country for deer in the summer and am armed with only binos these people are more than friendly, but come Oct. when my rifles on my back I get all kinds of *censored*ty looks. It pisses me of to, but what r u gunna do? I only flip it back to the ones that say something......
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: flyguide on December 24, 2008, 11:40:36 AM: I've never had a bad experience or gotten smug attitude from huggers. I spend lots of time in the high country scouting, always wearing camo with pride, and making good eye contact with them. I am usually packing a bow and haven't had any bad vibes. They have a right to be nervous around hunters after the lady in the Skagit being shot, it was awful. Just be courteous and I think that a lot of our perception on their outdoor ethics is self created by the hunter. The anti-hunters that you need to worry about spend all of their time on the computer. Most of the ones that you meet in the mountains are too busy trying to fill a short life with as many breaths in the outdoors as they can inhale, so help 'em make it worthwhile.

Don't help them prove any of their perceptions of a sterotypical ignorant hunter. ONE positive experience for or a non-hunter in the mountains might change their vote in the next election. A bad vibe or any attitude that a hunter lets off towards a "non-hunter" - NOT an anti - WILL change every vote for the rest of their life. Kind of scary. Just remember the majority of our population doesn't have an opinion towards legislation one way or another and are easily swayed.
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: croix on December 24, 2008, 11:51:19 AM: The last time I crossed paths with the nature lovers I passed three groups of them on a hiking trail on my way to deeper woods and they all wished me luck. My buddy and I were decked out in camo and totin guns; and literally every group wished us luck and told us "go get em".
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: hoytem on February 24, 2009, 04:43:14 PM: "Thanks for your great insite klickatat...think i will just keep being repectful and work on education vs hostility. When I met my wife she was an anti hunter, non meat eater, and complety uneducated about hunting.....now she hunts, loves venison and lets me hunt 3 weeks a year. oh yeah, we still hike!"

I'm sorry man , but nobody should "LET" you do anything, if that is the case I would re-evaluate my relationship. Especially when it comes to hunting. When I met my wife I was a hunter, I am still a hunter. She liked to think she let me go hunting as well. That type of crap just gets my blood boiling. You need to grow a pair and just do it if you want. If anyone is "letting" a grown man do something there is something wrong. Maybe this is just my twisted view on the subject... :bash: :twocents: :twocents:
Title: Re: TREE HUGGING FLOWER SNIFFERS
Post by: MichaelJ on February 24, 2009, 04:57:45 PM: My GF says she lets me hunt but she did get pissed when i left for the late whitetail season this year instead of coming to see her... told her tough luck and that it was hunting season... lol

I don't think broken Arrow is saying his wife is his master, but he's just fortunate they don't have problems or issues with hunting season... my bro in law is the same way with my sister....

Michael