[fabsroman]

I saw another show last night that I like. Tred Barta.

I don't necessarily agree with how he does things, but I still like the show. Last night, the show was about a grizzly hunt in Alaska and he showed a lot of the staulking. He also showed him coughing and blowing the hunt by coughing. He scared off two huge grizzlies and blamed it on a fly going down his throat. Guess what, he didn't have the Cough Silencer. Another thing that I think is a gimmick.

He was using a longbow with homemade arrows out of wood. He wasn't endoring anything and he was hunting the hard way. He staulked to about 10 yards from the grizzly before letting the arrow fly. The grizzly wasn't as big as the two from the day before, but it was 7'.

I watched another show where he and his son went Mulie hunting for does. They had a doe tag and they were trying to kill a doe with a recurve or longbow, the specific one I cannot remember. Again, they were using homemade wooden arrows and they weren't endorsing anything. He missed a couple of does as they got up and ran off, but he always checked the area to make sure that there was no blood.

To me, that is hunting. Sure, I can bait deer and black bear and kill plenty of them. If the laws allowed me to bait waterfowl I would have a truckload full of ducks and geese every time I went hunting, but that isn't hunting to me.

I guess we all have our different styles of hunting, and like Tred Barta said last night, "Hunting isn't about the trophy on the wall, but about the experiences you go through to get that trophy." To me, shooting an elk or a monster whitetail on a fenced or manipulated farm isn't the same as staulking one. The first big antlered deer I shot was great because it was the first, but it didn't have quite the story as the second one.