Thread: what makes a true hunter?

great post bumblefoot.......there is an add that plays during the NZ Hunter adventures tv show each week that really pisses me off as it shows up that "macho" thing better than most..... guy in shorts boring a post hole ,then goes off for a hunt and shoots a deer...which he backpacks out while his mate rides one horse and leads the other....ummmmm HEEEEELLOOOO anyone home???? carry your deer on the horse,if you cant bear blood on your saddle tie it off and drag it...you wont get meat dirty if you drag it head first..... if your horse wont let you do either of these things its might be better off as dog tucker.....
the glory photo with young person bent over underneath a big pig!!!!grrrr pure macho B.S. and it sets them up for a world of pain when they get older....got to carry it out whole,yet you get home and chuck the head away,that something like 10% of its weight. caarying a deer out as a backpack has been around since the meat recovery era....guys who did it then are bent and broken now...it was silly good money so it happened....now you only want the meat so why bother???? if its close to wagon in open country,using a carry belt and having carcase across your lower back/kidney area is so much easier on the body ,safer and a hell of a lot easier to get out from underneath if you arse up.
bringing home the bacon....give me a sow under 100lb or a boar under 89lbs anyday......far better eating than a big old tusker (dont get me wrong I eat them too) and a heck of alot easier to carry home.