“I appreciate you all had Matt Rinella on to explain his position a little more. I have to say, I mostly agree with him and to add a little bit to that, I am an “adult onset hunter.” Oftentimes, when I get out in the wilderness, I see trash, beer cans, abandoned fishing tackle, plastic bags, shotgun shells, empty foam worm containers. And everyone I see that stuff, I wonder if I’m in the right group of people. I’m mostly alone when I hunt and fish. I read the Byzantine regulations for a year before pursuing big game and limited my small game to upland game with dogs until I had a good grasp on the regulations. I’m still learning from it all. R3 programs had nothing to do with my entry into the “sport.” I had almost no mentoring and have done all they legwork myself to find how what’s legal, hope to hunt, fish, and process game. R3 programs aren’t even on my radar and I think that their utility is pretty limited. Hunting is largely about mastering enough skills and getting in condition to go into the wilderness and kill and harvest game meat, trophies being an addition to the experience and ways to remember the moment. R3 presupposes people willing to do and capable of doing all that on their own will need assistance from strangers in just getting into the field. If R3 is truly successful, to go further, the animals will be pursued into extinction. The carrying capacity will be maxed out by hunters not the game they pursue. Anyway, there’s a lot more to it, but this is a review not an argument forum. I like the podcast. An upgrade on sound quality would be good. Keep engaging in difficult topics.”
Butchcassidy7 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/13/21