>Dude , bottom line is I
>was never talking to the
>person that needed the help.
>I actually MESSAGED them
>offering assistance. I figure IF
>you're smart enough to be
>our " computer whizz moderator"
>you could distinguish the difference
>in my original response. The
>same way you have your
>opinion I have mine, and
>that is get off your
>computer , Put on your
>boots, pick up a map
>, and get out in
>your unit and put in
>the work , just like
>me and 1000 other guys
>on this Web site have
>done. Period..
I would be happy to have a reasonable conversation with you, but, every post you insist on acting like a punk kid.
I hope this is the last I have to post on this.
I enjoy scouting, shed hunting, and just exploring. I happen to be lucky enough to live right in the middle of some excellent country to do it in. This year, my son and I found and sold almost $6000 in sheds, not including the ones we liked and kept, or 15 or so dead heads. I realize that I am lucky to have the lifestyle I have and others are not as lucky.
So yes, I put the boots on the ground. Every year I take more people hunting than hunts I go on myself. I will be on 8 different elk hunts in Oct alone, and I will be relied on exclusively on 6 of them for almost everything including packing and cutting up their elk if they are so lucky.
I will not accept a penny for any of it. If they do insist on giving me something, I tell them to give my wife a gift certificate because she feeds us, puts up with me getting up early etc..
This does not include those that I try to help in PMs, on phone and meeting at my house to go over maps. I have been badly burned only twice (these are stories worth telling, but, at another time). I have made some very good friends, enjoyed myself, and gotten a little exercise out of the bargain.
I have no regrets, and will continue as long as I enjoy it.
I totally understand someone not wanting to share spots, especially if they have been burned.
I also apply in a lot of other states.
I have AZ, CO and KS tags this year. So I do ask for help. I try to help the guys that help me out, but, it does not always work that they can draw in units I am familiar with in NM. I am sure, that I have helped out way more than I have been helped, so I feel okay about it.
That all being said. If someone comes on here and humbles them selves to ask for help, they should not be subjected to ridicule, and self righteous attitude. Most of these are either new hunters, guys that have jobs with only 2 weeks vacation, economically limited or with family obligations that does not allow them to get out and scout.
Further, if a guy does help, he should not be subjected to peanut gallery azzholes sniping him.
Lastly, is the notion that these hunters do not deserve "elite" tags because they dont know the unit, or as a resident I cant draw it, or what ever justification some guys get to be rude to people that draw a tag that anyone has the same right to draw.
Some guy with a bunch of hunting stickers on his back window of his truck decides that certain hunters should not have certain tags is pathetic. That behavior pisses me off.
I moderate this forum until Brian decides I dont. Should he decide I do not, I am cool with that also. I will not sit by and watch new hunters get pounced on in this forum while I am the moderator.
BugleNMIN, I never even looked at who made the original posts. I did not care less who it was. It could have been someone I personally know and am friends with. I would have responded the same. I addressed it when I saw it. When you decided to make it personal and get shytty with me, then you got what you deserved. I would not have held anything against you, and I still will not, unless you just keep trying to provoke me. Then I will respond in the same childish way you have been.
BuglenmIN, I can't ban you or even delete your posts without involving Brian. I am not the kind of guy to do that anyhow unless someone really gets nuts. I fight my own battles However, I will address those type of posts in the same way I have, and the person making posts belittling other hunters will be exposed for what they are.
I am done with this, until you decide I am not.