Back in the day one of the favorite hunting hangout forums was on Huntinfo.com. It was a great place to mingle with like minded hunting enthusiasts. Today, Huntinfo is irrelevant, which is the harshest word anyone can say about a web site. At the peak of its traffic, Huntinfo gathered hunters from all over & spawned lots of wannabes - like Monster Muleys. A couple years before the HI forums imploded, I posted a thread predicting the demise of HI. That was a hard prediction to come up with - this one is easy:
The end of Monster Muleys is near.
My gut tells me that MM now has:
more negative posts than positive.
more posts that berate the topic or the poster than discuss.
more posters who seek to be heard than seek to understand.
My gut tells me the tide has turned & the die is cast.
When I made my post on HI, I pleaded with the group to join together in support of our sport rather than tear ourselves apart from the inside. It didn't work...
I won't miss MM. I've been here since the beginning, but I've avoided getting attached to the site or its participants so that when the end happens, I can apathetically delete it from my favorites.
Maybe it's because we hunters are solitary by nature, alpha males (or females), are uber-competitors, or understand critters more than we understand humans. Whatever the reason, we just can't tolerate each other and don't relate well in groups - at least not large, anonymous groups.
Whatever the reason, the outcome will be the same. This site will become irrelevant and fade away. Likely there will be 10 new sites spring up in its place and we'll migrate to one of them. And, just as likely, we'll relive our past - again.
Now I'm going to really ignore my better judgment & get on a soapbox & do a little preaching.
Poachers, trophy hunters, high fences, game farms, canned hunts, governor tags, landowner tags, F&G, DOW, hunting shows, hunting magazines, hunting web sites, hunting contests - these are not the real risks to our sport.
Here are the biggest threats to our sport's future:
Hunters divided against themselves
Anti-hunters
The apathy of non-hunters and hunters - few care enough to give time, $ or energy to save hunting.
I don't have the heart to predict the future I see for our sport.
Every one of us has to fight this fight or we will lose.
(calling for a convicted poacher to spend 20 years fighting to save hunting may be the funniest thing I've ever read)
This is our fight and we have to fight it together or we will lose. And, we have to fight our real problems - not the stuff that we see in DOW press releases.
If anyone replies to this post, my prediction is that it will go something like this "You did not predict the death of HI", "HI isn't dead", "You haven't been on MM since the beginning", "You haven't posted enough times to have an opinion", "Poachers steal our game", "I am not an alpha male & I'll kick your teeth in to prove it", etc.
I'm not claiming that I practice any of the above preaching. My character is not relative to the accuracy of my words.
Let the pounding of the nails in MM's coffin continue...
Guy
The end of Monster Muleys is near.
My gut tells me that MM now has:
more negative posts than positive.
more posts that berate the topic or the poster than discuss.
more posters who seek to be heard than seek to understand.
My gut tells me the tide has turned & the die is cast.
When I made my post on HI, I pleaded with the group to join together in support of our sport rather than tear ourselves apart from the inside. It didn't work...
I won't miss MM. I've been here since the beginning, but I've avoided getting attached to the site or its participants so that when the end happens, I can apathetically delete it from my favorites.
Maybe it's because we hunters are solitary by nature, alpha males (or females), are uber-competitors, or understand critters more than we understand humans. Whatever the reason, we just can't tolerate each other and don't relate well in groups - at least not large, anonymous groups.
Whatever the reason, the outcome will be the same. This site will become irrelevant and fade away. Likely there will be 10 new sites spring up in its place and we'll migrate to one of them. And, just as likely, we'll relive our past - again.
Now I'm going to really ignore my better judgment & get on a soapbox & do a little preaching.
Poachers, trophy hunters, high fences, game farms, canned hunts, governor tags, landowner tags, F&G, DOW, hunting shows, hunting magazines, hunting web sites, hunting contests - these are not the real risks to our sport.
Here are the biggest threats to our sport's future:
Hunters divided against themselves
Anti-hunters
The apathy of non-hunters and hunters - few care enough to give time, $ or energy to save hunting.
I don't have the heart to predict the future I see for our sport.
Every one of us has to fight this fight or we will lose.
(calling for a convicted poacher to spend 20 years fighting to save hunting may be the funniest thing I've ever read)
This is our fight and we have to fight it together or we will lose. And, we have to fight our real problems - not the stuff that we see in DOW press releases.
If anyone replies to this post, my prediction is that it will go something like this "You did not predict the death of HI", "HI isn't dead", "You haven't been on MM since the beginning", "You haven't posted enough times to have an opinion", "Poachers steal our game", "I am not an alpha male & I'll kick your teeth in to prove it", etc.
I'm not claiming that I practice any of the above preaching. My character is not relative to the accuracy of my words.
Let the pounding of the nails in MM's coffin continue...
Guy
