When you get the chance to pass on the gifts and experiences had afield with a friend, consider yourself lucky. It’s a privilege to have someone value your knowledge and extremely rewarding to watch as they progress.
It’s not every day you get to share the mountain of outdoor knowledge you have compiled over many years. Many hunters will listen to what you have to say, but for some reason, never apply it. It’s especially rewarding to have a student who not only listens, but retains and utilizes the information that you have provided. I have to be honest and say more often than not you will get a know-it-all. I have learned that it is way more common to find such negative traits in adult hunters than compared with youths. Kids tend to take your word for things and just do, while adults tend to question and attempt to use their own logic to make sense of the situation. The problem is, most of their compiled experiences happened around people and simply don’t translate to the woods. When the time comes to rationalize a situation, it will typically be inspected through a human’s, not an animal’s, perspective. I believe this is the biggest mistake that hunters make that can be easily avoided.
Isn’t it amazing how all the negative in the world seems to melt away while out in the field? It seems in this day and age there is more negative than positive going around. All you have to do is turn on the news to see it. Is this reality, or is it a constructed trap to keep viewers glued to the screen? With people’s racial buttons being pushed every day, you would almost think we don’t associate anymore. I’m here to say that’s a hot load of coon crap.
I happen to enjoy people of other races as long as they respect me and my beliefs as I do theirs. Political society seems to be trying to drive a wedge between people, in what looks to be an attempt to keep them separated. This is another city way of thinking, because we all know all men and women are created equal, especially in the woods. I promise a deer doesn’t care what religion you follow, what gender you are, what color your skin is, or where you were raised. It’s survival to the deer and it assumes all humans are equally dangerous in their world. The deer doesn’t know to separate the hikers from a hunter, so it fears everyone. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
