LOL, Good observation GBA. But you have to admit it would be a quiet place without a little variety though.
If you consider that you get one, maybe two tags per year to hunt your state or multiple states if you are fortunate enough. If you are successful, that results in one post on MM. There are currently 11,558 active members on MM. A average of a 10% success rate of one animal per member would result in 1,156 posts of animals taken over a given year. If it takes three minutes to read through a post, that adds up to 3,467 minutes spent comparing everyone elses kill to yours, I mean congradulating our fellow MMers on jobs well done. There are 525,600 minutes in a year. That leaves 522,133 minutes per year with nothing to do but talk about stuff related to the outdoors. When that runs out, it's time to recycle previous topics. When that is exhausted, then it is time for people who enjoy the outdoors to talk about stuff completely unrelated to the outdoors. When every concievable topic is beat to death and every opinion has been expressed, then it is time for personal attacks and trash talk. Just before founder purges half of the membership to avoid violating numerous codes of conduct and decency laws, hunting season rolls around and the cycle repeats itself.
This explains how it is that in june and july we can read about things like ideal bullet jacket thickness, the recommended viscosity for bow wax, or how a blood blister affects trigger pull at higher elevations. It also explains how perfectly rational people can post something like, "....just shot me a mess of grasshoppers with my .17" or "...gopher at 60 yards with my bow!" This behavior is commonly the result of "cabin fever."
However, not all MM posts are not without some degree of merit. It has resulted in educational and spirited discussions on topics like proper grammer, all things related to sports, animal husbandry, home medical remedies, critical thinking, what to wear for halloween, inductive and deductive reasoning, and human anatomy.
The best posts are the ones are when guys spend countless hours shooting out to 700 yards and wind up shooting a deer/elk at 40 yards. Hey, even I can do that! From what I can put together, the perfect rifle is a 12gauge necked down to a 7mm with a scope that costs more then the rifle. If I shot as much with a rifle as I do with my bow, I would be out a couple of hundred a week! The one thing the rifle guys can agree on is to not hunt with a bow.
By the way, can you tell that archery season is over, I'm tagged out and now just trying to kill some time until 2012 rolls around? Time well spent!
I'm with you on "sticking" with a bow.
Good luck to everyone who still has a tag to fill.
