bill herian wrote:DeadEye_Dan wrote:bill herian wrote:I agree with Jerry, and Hammer, and Hemingway, and SWS.
Only saying that if i'm going to a far off place and spending big money on a hunting trip, its going to have to be an altogether different experience than I can get at home.
That's the only reason I travel to hunt.
Yes, but for me, going someplace cool just to shoot a different looking bird isn't quite "altogether different" enough for me. Birds is birds, I can get those at home.
For me it usually revolves around an opportunity to hunt a historically significant area for waterfowl (Currituck Sound, Lake Erie/St Clair, Chesapeake Bay, etc) and then to hunt in the traditional way for that location (curtain blinds down east, Eiders off the rocks in Maine, black ducks on the tidal flats with sea weed decoys on PEI, etc).
To me it's all about the opportunity to experience a style of hunting that is uncommon to me, and why spots like Arkansas or North Dakota hold virtually zero appeal to me...I can shoot birds in flooded timber or in a cornfield pretty much any day of the season I choose to where I live - but ride out into a shallow bay, pump water out of a sunken blind, hop in and raise a curtain with the incoming tide and hunt brant and pintails from below the surface of the water??? Oh yeah.
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