michael.magorian
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Menominee, Nebraska
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This has been an age old battle for years and years. Two different hunters hunting the same thing in two different ways, of course one is going to bitch about the other. I just won't hunt where someone is trapping. If my hound gets somewhere where there are traps, all you can do is hope for the best. I worry more about vehicles than I do conibears.
I have been fishing and hunting every walk of life since I was a little kid, and more and more I have realized that there is no more self-centered human being than an outdoorsman. Sure some are easy going, support their sport, encourage others, and are happy when someone else has a good day/night, but for the most part greed and bitterness are more prevalent than the sheer enjoyment of the sport.
This may not refer to you, but I'm sure someone you know:
-hound hunters will knowingly hunt land they don't have permission to hunt and then blame it on the hounds and will publicly bash someone else's hounds just to turn a buck with there own
-deer hunters are all friendly until there is a big buck spotted in the area, then they are cut-throat and will call a warden on a family member just out of spite
-water fowl hunters will whine and cry about blind locations on public land when they could move just as easily as the next guy
-fishermen will give false reports to wardens about someone else's catch limit just because they are in the spot they wanted to fish
-pheasant/grouse hunters will tell tall tales about numbers a party will take will so they won't get permission on a hunting spot again
and the list could go on and on....
Why not just enjoy your sport? Everyone wants to worry about the activities of others and demand rules and regulations to get their way, well one day you may just get all the regulations you can handle. Then you can tell your grandchildren how, "We used to hunt with hounds, but everyone pushed regulations between trappers and hound hunters, and now it isn't legal. Ah yes, those were the days."
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