The Magic Never-fail Hunting Gadget

[NCHillbilly]

Reading the waste of money thread got me to thinking. Seems like a lot of folks are looking for something to make deer hunting easy, predictable, and to take all the variables and need for hunting skills out of the equation.

That brings to mind a question:


If they actually came up with some kind of gizmo that could keep deer from detecting you 100% of the time, or another one that would call deer in range to you every time you used it, would you buy and use one?

 

[kmckinnie]

I would get 2 of them. I know Bkw would take mine if I didn't have 2.

 

[transfixer]

Good question,,, I'm sure they would sell a ton of them, would I use it ? I'd probably try it, but if it became too easy I'd lose interest, and probably not deer hunt much. For example, I started fishing the put and take trout streams in N.Ga when I was a kid, by the time I was in my twenties I could care less about catching those hatchery raised trout, I just went to camp and enjoy the mountains, I usually took friends with me and showed them where and how to fish, but it became too easy to catch em, and I didn't care about fishing for them anymore.

 

[OmenHonkey]

Nope, I enjoy the purity of the hunt. Yes I have reasonably priced camo and a grunt call. I hunt in South Ga but rarely use bait of any sort other than natural browse or crop field edges. I feel the corn just steals some of the chase to me.

 

[meatseeker]

Wouldn't need one. The deer would be kilt out ina hurry from the greedy killers who don't understand. First the big bucks would be gone. Then they'd have to shoot the small bucks cause they would be the big bucks. Then the "doe for all" would begin and we'd be right back where we were decades ago. And then they'd claim the gadgets didn't work and there'd be a class action lawsuit. And everyone would get $3.50 back from them and go spend it on the scentloc clearance rack.

 

[GT-40 GUY]

Tink's 69 and Buck Bomb Doe in Estrus come close.

gt40

 

[livinoutdoors]

Part of the problem now days is nothing is hard/challenging/takes time to master. See where that has got us. So no.haha

 

[Gbr5pb]

Of course!

 

[DouglasB.]

Probably not.

I limited out, one year, in the first two hours of turkey season.... It was the most boring turkey season ever.

I figure if deer season was that easy, it would probably be that boring too.

 

[DMCox]

Don't think I could use it... I enjoy the sitting in the woods trying to outsmart the deer. Don't really want to make it easy. Most of what I enjoy about hunting is preparing the land for season, or scouting public land and sitting there just enjoying nature. If I manage to get a deer that just makes everything else all that much more enjoyable.

 

[snookdoctor]

You mean a gadget that would guarantee success every time you went on a deer hunt.

Something that would remove all anticipation while you were in the woods?

Just sitting there with your finger on the trigger, cause you know it's not IF, but WHEN the deer will stop broadside at a sure distance!

No thanks. That's not hunting. I suppose that would be more like stepping into a brothel with a wad of hunerts.

I'll continue to cherish that anticipation, and the joy of the unknown outcome every time I step into the woods.

But, if you run across a gadget that would make the wife cook a decent meal on a regular basis, send me a PM.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Don't think I could use it... I enjoy the sitting in the woods trying to outsmart the deer. Don't really want to make it easy. Most of what I enjoy about hunting is preparing the land for season, or scouting public land and sitting there just enjoying nature. If I manage to get a deer that just makes everything else all that much more enjoyable.

That's kind of my feeling. I don't want anything to make it too easy. It would get boring.

Kind of reminded of the story about the fanatical fly fisherman who died. He woke up on the banks of a beautiful trout stream, the most pristine one he had ever seen. He looked around, and there was a fly rod of the finest quality lying beside him, and everything to go with it, including a bottle of 60-year -old single malt scotch and a humidor of Cuban cigars. "Wow," he thinks, "heaven is real!"

He lit up the stogie and poured him three fingers of the scotch. As he sat there sipping and smoking, he noticed trout rising all up and down the stream. He frantically rigged up the rod and cast to a rise. On the first cast, a fish took. He brought it in, and admired it. It was a 28" brown with vivid coloration. The next cast yielded a 20" cutthroat, just as beautiful.

Time and time again he cast, and every cast yielded a trout of a lifetime-browns, rainbows, brooks, cutthroat, goldens, dolly varden. He never missed a strike, the fish never got off, or broke his tippet. After a couple hours, he started trying to make sloppy casts and drag his fly. The fish still hit it. He tried to break one off. He couldn't.

About that time, a man with a long gray beard wearing a white robe walked up. "Well, he said, "how do you like it?" The man thought a moment, and said, "Well, at first it was great. But then I realized everything was just too perfect. Heaven is actually pretty boring, now that I think about it."

"Who said this was heaven?" the man asked. "Son," he said, "you're in H3ll!"

 

[Gumpbuck]

It's all been said and agree with it. But how about you find me a gadget that will help me get just a little better? Fortunes will be made and spent every time something new comes out like that... ;-)

 

[The Fever]

I bet I would still find a way to mess it up!

 

[swamp hunter]

99 % of my Hunting is Hunting..Hard.
The Chess game I play with the Deer are the only reason I go..other than just lookin around and dodging Snakes..
Might as well shoot Cows at the Feed trough.

 

[BowanaLee]

I'd have to try it. You know, just to be sure it worked.

 

[yellowhammer73]

No.
I read a short story about 30 years ago in a field and stream magazine called The Magic Hat. If memory serves me. In the story it tells of a man who happens upon a camo hat at a yard sale. While looking at it the old woman, having the yard sale, tells him her recently passed on husband had it and shortly quit hunting after starting to wear it. So the guy bought it. On his first hunt out with the hat on he was able to stalk to within 10 yards of the biggest buck he had ever seen. Like the hunter was invisible.
Instead of shooting the buck he removed the hat and the buck saw him and ran. The young man never hunted with the hat again. The hat made him invisible. He decided that wasn't what hunting was about.
I was a young man when I read that story and it hit home with me.
So back to the original question...
No I enjoy all aspects of the hunt.

 

[jeardley]

Nope. I've been done with all the gadgets for a while now and would have any interest in a guaranteed hunting thingy. It would take all of the excitement out of it for me. Besides that , it would limit my time away from home at deer camp. I could see my wife saying "well you got your meat, no need to go down anymore. We got stuff to do around here".

 

[NCMTNHunter]

I have seasons where it feels like I have that gadget... but it's always followed up by a few seasons beating me over the head reminding me that I do not.

 

[Gbr5pb]

Heck I want that hat!