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The No-Shame Thread

I'm not a good hunter by any metric, especially now. I grew up hunting mostly farms in a mountainous region. Now I hunt forest in the flat midwest, so little to none of my experience transfers.

A lot of times, I don't even find it fun as a result. This year was slightly better in some ways and worse in others. I got out more days than usual for archery season. Blew a chance at a shot on a nice buck the first hunt and saw hardly any deer after that. My probable last hunt of the year was last weekend. I saw another nice buck, but he was way too far away. The rut was just starting, but it was unseasonably warm so not much deer movement.

Firearms season opens this Saturday and runs for a couple weeks and archery runs through the end of the year. However, personal and professional obligations make any further hunts for me unlikely.

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Butt out tools are for new hunters that don't understand how things work. I was scammed, I blame it on none of my family being hunters. Separating literal slimy @$$hole from a plastic plunger with barbs is the last thing I want to do, speaking from experience.


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sojourner said:
When I buy fast food for the family, on the way home, I grab copious amounts of fries from their fry containers and eat them. Then I take the only full fry container when at the house.
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Now that's funny...
 
sojourner said:
When I buy fast food for the family, on the way home, I grab copious amounts of fries from their fry containers and eat them. Then I take the only full fry container when at the house.
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its only wrong if you think it’s wrongs and you posted it here so you think it’s wrong.

I like you more because of it. Nature is just different forms of violence towards the ends of acquiring protein. Teaching the kids young, that nothing is sacred.

now I want fries.
 
kyler1945 said:
Seriously. Besides the obvious obsession of young men with any holes they discover, and especially those on living things, can anyone explain to me why you'd use a butt out?
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Because it is so much fun to pull out that section of deer colon and slap it across the face of an unsuspecting observer, especially if you say "Wow, what is that?" right before you pull it out so they lean in close.

I thought I was the only one, but I always sit down to piss when I wake up in the middle of the night, it is just a better option. I upped the anty 1x when I fell off the toilet asleep and into tub next to it in our guest bathroom and tore down the shower curtains in the process. An inebriating concoction was involved in that one and thankfully my wife didn't have her phone handy for a picture.!
 
BCHunter said:
Butt out tools are for new hunters that don't understand how things work. I was scammed, I blame it on none of my family being hunters. Separating literal slimy @$$hole from a plastic plunger with barbs is the last thing I want to do, speaking from experience.


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I think their idea is "this thing sounds so stupid, useless, and weird - it wouldn't exist if it wasn't useful"


Heck I've been butt-out curious too.
 
Nutterbuster said:
Honestly, I can usually see better from the ground down here. I'm really digging going back to my roots with the pacseat. I used to think it was a disadvantage, but with the mini and a few extra year's knowledge under my belt I'm starting to think differently.
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Bwhana said:
Because it is so much fun to pull out that section of deer colon and slap it across the face of an unsuspecting observer, especially if you say "Wow, what is that?" right before you pull it out so they lean in close.

I thought I was the only one, but I always sit down to piss when I wake up in the middle of the night, it is just a better option. I upped the anty 1x when I fell off the toilet asleep and into tub next to it in our guest bathroom and tore down the shower curtains in the process. An inebriating concoction was involved in that one and thankfully my wife didn't have her phone handy for a picture.!
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My wife took the picture. Luckily only my legs were visible. It was a hell of a tumble because I pee like a man.
 
I shoot mecha-nichols...because a bad shot with a huge hole still gives me more faith than a bad shot that aint huge

I use a butt out tool, because anyone worried about washing it off worries me, as it is easier than havin the dreaded $#!+ under the ol' fingernails

I have washed my butt out tool in the dishwasher

I bought WE stepps, and they were they single scariest thing I have ever climbed

I joined the Air Force because I had no marketable skills; I retire in two years and I still have no marketable skills

I drink ultra light beer because I am a McB!+(# lightweight
 
I pass on young bucks because I like to shoot big old bucks

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neonomad said:
I never smoked but used to chew Levi Garrett occasionally in the stand. I switched from that to Nicorette for health, then started chewing that at work, then got the patch to quit that and now I’m trying to quit the patch.

I’ve hunted the farm I grew up on for 25 years and never shot a deer on it. I’ve shot deer on both ends of it at the neighbors, including a 175, shot deer on public, shot deer on leases, shot deer in the burbs, but home farm is a puzzle I’m still chasing.

I care about global warming more than gun rights and plan to vote blue for awhile in spite of some of the other stuff on that platform that I don’t agree with. So I’m careful where I wander on Archerytalk.

I think climbers have now become underrated, way more comfortable and safer than saddles. Also more comfortable than the jx3. But haven’t personally sat in my climber for 2-3 years.

Every year in the winter the bow is heavily tuned in the basement, shooting bullet holes, I’m in peak form around May, the summer gets busy the plan frazzles a bit and I screw on Spitfires or Montecs in October.

Older I get, and with a toddler, early mornings are getting tougher and less frequent for me too.
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With a gun you might be able to help stop global warming. Politics suck by the way.
 
What a fun thread. Thank you @Nutterbuster for this no-shame space.
1. I don't like the taste of beer (red wine and liquor for me).
2. I've never harvested a deer with a bow. I just got a crossbow 3 years ago and didn't practice much, but I took it with me during bow season. Shot once at a doe and missed. I just got a compound for this year. I got it late and am no where near comfortable with it.
3. I'm happily married, but I think Flo on the Progressive Insurance ads is hot. If we're honest, I don't think I'm the only one here thinking this. :)
 
This thread is crazy and hilarious. I guess I will add a few of my more unpopular opinions.

My deepest hunting sins are that--

  • I love shooting small bucks- I always have and after killing over 25 bucks including a few P&Y, I still love it.

  • I like hunting over bait from time to time- mostly with my longbow cause it helps me to get them "longbow close".

  • I think people are way too concerned about making an "ethical shot" on a deer- while I do not encourage people to be completely careless, wounding a deer is an inherent risk in hunting and it is not worth crying over. It is just a deer, they sit half alive on the side of the road for hours and get eaten alive by coyotes.

  • I think youth hunting seasons are dumb- I think they actually hurt hunter retention by giving false hope to youngsters.

  • I think deer heart taste better than backstraps or tenderloins
 
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