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firemedic
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« on: May 13, 2012, 07:02:08 pm » |
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I was just at the Wild Hog Festival in Abbeville, GA, just got home today. I enjoyed it as usual, but I also saw what is coming along behind us as hog hunters.....namely this new breed of hog dogger. It saddens me greatly to see just what you spoke of Noah, the greedy, obsessed 'do anything to get ahead' type of hunter this is making. Now mind you not all new comers are like this, thank goodness,.....I was fortunate enough to meet a new young man that hunts with some of my friends down there, very polite fellow and had a wonderful personality as well. Must have been raised right.
However, there were more than enough young men....and young girls as well, wearing a sleeveless, hog hunter shirt, smoking a cig...walking with a pronounced 'swagger'....as if proclaiming to the world..."Hey....look at me, I'm a bonified, hard a$$, tough as nails, whoop your a$$ in a heartbeat, dog training, hog catching, gut eating.....bad a$$." If it weren't so sad it would actually be funny.....but I don't think of it that way. It's the way of our sport and the rest of us and a lot of good dogs are going to suffer for it seems to me.
These kids will grow up to be just the kind of hunter Noah spoke of in his post....the kind of person that nobody wishes to unt with.....except maybe once or twice. It bothers me that we have to have this is our sport but I guess it's that way in any kind of sport you wish to partake of....just seems that we have an over-abundance of it in ours.
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