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<blockquote data-quote="4shotB" data-source="post: 710875" data-attributes="member: 844"><p>As I child, we were driving down a country road one evening near dusk. I spotted a deer standing in a field. as we drove by. It was incredible!! Most people back then had never seen a deer in their entire lifetime (mid 60's timeframe). can you imagine that? I teach HS now. I tell them the world is going to be so different for them in ways that they cannot begin to imagine. If you had told us as children that deer would become as common as seeing a rabbit we would have laughed that off. Same with eagles, hawks, turkeys, etc.</p><p></p><p>What has changed for the worse is the hunting of small game...quail, rabbits, squirrels, etc. as habitat changed and predators increased. Killing a rabbit is now difficult and even worse for quail. You could shoot small game so easily back then nobody really thought of it as sporting. You just went and harvested them anytime you felt like eating rabbit or squirrel or quail. My dog and I can hunt for days now and not flush a quail and we hardly go anymore. Although we never see anyone else trying to hunt them when we do go. It's a sport that is slowly fading from sight. It was common for people to own and breed pointing dogs and/or beagles. When I got my setter a decade to go, I had to drive to Minnesota to find a puppy. They just aren't around here anymore.</p><p></p><p>One thing that is significantly different is the influence of money. Used to be, hunting was thought of as an activity for the poor or lower middle class. Now, with leases, licenses, etc. it is like it has reverted back to medieval times...it is a past time for the rich or the landowners.Sadly, I belong to neither group, especially with the recent events in the market.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite59" alt=":facepalm:" title="Facepalm :facepalm:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":facepalm:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4shotB, post: 710875, member: 844"] As I child, we were driving down a country road one evening near dusk. I spotted a deer standing in a field. as we drove by. It was incredible!! Most people back then had never seen a deer in their entire lifetime (mid 60's timeframe). can you imagine that? I teach HS now. I tell them the world is going to be so different for them in ways that they cannot begin to imagine. If you had told us as children that deer would become as common as seeing a rabbit we would have laughed that off. Same with eagles, hawks, turkeys, etc. What has changed for the worse is the hunting of small game...quail, rabbits, squirrels, etc. as habitat changed and predators increased. Killing a rabbit is now difficult and even worse for quail. You could shoot small game so easily back then nobody really thought of it as sporting. You just went and harvested them anytime you felt like eating rabbit or squirrel or quail. My dog and I can hunt for days now and not flush a quail and we hardly go anymore. Although we never see anyone else trying to hunt them when we do go. It's a sport that is slowly fading from sight. It was common for people to own and breed pointing dogs and/or beagles. When I got my setter a decade to go, I had to drive to Minnesota to find a puppy. They just aren't around here anymore. One thing that is significantly different is the influence of money. Used to be, hunting was thought of as an activity for the poor or lower middle class. Now, with leases, licenses, etc. it is like it has reverted back to medieval times...it is a past time for the rich or the landowners.Sadly, I belong to neither group, especially with the recent events in the market.:facepalm: [/QUOTE]
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