Expert ??????
 

Just to set the record clear, I'm no expert, I don't intend to be.
I have no Ego trip!
But I just want to throw in my two cents worth !
I feel what I've learn and been taught by other hunters and personal experence over the past 48 years,( began hunting with my father at age 6, carried a Remington single shot TargetMaster .22 cal rifle, no ammo) father carried that.
I feel if it will help someone else, then I'll gladly throw it in.
If I tell you something, I've either tried it and ( did or didn't like it).
It might work for me and someone else might have a better way of doing it, I'm always game to try new things, just like Valgators
"Kill easy Bisquits"
I'm NOT like an old dog that can't be taught new tricks:D :D
In other words( I'm a JACK of ALL TRADES, and MASTER of NOTHING.":) :)
ARE THERE ANY OTHERS LIKE THIS OUT THERE ?:) :D

PREACH IT BROTHER LARRY! Yer SINGIN to the CHOIR!

GoodOlBoy

I think most of us are like you when it comes to hunting and shooting. There are very few of us on this board that are "professionals" or "experts", and even if we were professionals and/or experts, it doesn't mean that a professional and/or expert knows it all and is always right. Professionals and experts learn every day too, and they are wrong sometimes too.

larry

first we must break the word expert down to common denominators.

an "ex" is a has been and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure. as one of my heroes, satchel paige once said " it's better to be a has been , than a never was."

i like your analogy on life in general. if you have an experience in life and share it with others thats great. if it doesn't work out for them thats the way life sometimes is, or the breaks, as we call them. after all we can't all swing the bat like joe morgan did. we have to master our own style.

i disagre you are a jack of all trades and master of nothing. you have mastered life. you have taken lifes tasks and fitted them to your own style, maybe you couldn't do something in someone elses operendi, who gives a rats rump, but you made it work for you and thats whats important. you adjusted.

another thing satchel once said, 'NOBODY CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NOBODY HAS TO BE COMMON".

why was satchel so important to me you might say. when i was a kid i had a very sickly child hood. i always loved sports. but i couldn't participate. well bak in the days of old the cleveland indians had a farm club in dayton ohio called the dayton indians. much like today the game between dayton and cleveland was the last game before the big league season started. after the game all the stars would shake hands with the fans and sign autographs. now this was on the field of play mind you. like everybody else i ran out onto the field and the first player i ran into was satchel. i offered my hand and he shook it. what a thrill for a 12 year old kid. his hand was huge and i felt i was touched by one of the archangels. what an honor just to share the grass with him. i thought i'd died and gone to heaven. here i was in the midst of boudreau, gordon, al rosen, wynn, garcia, feller, lemon, luke easter, larry doby. i shook hands with them all. i also didn't wash my hand for a week. :D

so as satch would say "pardner, you might be average, but ya dang sure ain't common."