What's Hardcore?

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V-John

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What's a hard core hunter to you?
A while back, there was a thread about a guy who wasn't a "Cabelas Hunter" because he wasn't wearing any gear from Cabelas.
Does that make a guy a hard core hunter?
Another thread, we talked about how many days afield that we have spent in the field. Does that make a guy a hard core hunter?
What about the guy that travels 1000+ miles to hunt a couple times a year?
Or the guy that lives in a "rumored" well to do county?
Or the crappy truck you drive. Apparantly, the crappier, the better?
I don't know if I consider myself a hardcore hunter.
I spent 40-45 days in the field last season. But I wear and own Cabelas gear. Vest, brush pants...
I wear the pants because I like to have nice jeans and don't want to get them torn up, so I can wear them to work. I think I have two or three pairs of pants and wear them over and over again when I hunt. They are torn up. I have a coat I got from Cabelas, it's blaze. I like it. My dogs wear Cabelas gear. (Orange Vests) So we can see them.
But I don't know that I consider myself a hardcore hunter. I doubt that I would hunt much if at all, without my dogs. I've never shot a deer, I've never shot a bow. I've shot a turkey.
I spent a lot of time in the field though. Just never without a dog. Killin' ain't the most important thing to me. It's the critter that I'm chasing in the field.
I guess I'd consider myself a dog man, but not necessarily a hard-core hunter.

What's a hard core hunter to you?
 
How about hardcore being a hunter who spends alot of time on this forum five days a week? LOL that's me.
 
What about Grouse hunters? Have you seen the cover they hunt in? Is that "Hard Core"?
 
I know I was far more hardcore twenty or twenty five years ago. Back then I hunted upland in 4 or 5 states. Deer in a couple. Honestly I don't think I was much fun to hunt with, way to serious. I would get in the field as soon as it was legal, and push the limits of legality in the evening. Lunch on the run between fields and not many breaks. I hunted like I worked, and it really started to become a job. I burned out and took a couple three years off when my third kid was born. Since I have returned, 10 or so years ago, hunting is now a pleasure. I am still serious, don't get me wrong, but as I teach my kids to hunt and I am far less of a dic**head. I don't think hardcore has anything at all to do with type of gun or attire. It has far more to do with attitude. I take a hunt every year to SD in dec. You have to still be a little hard core to deal with that. Brrrrrrrr.
 
carptom1 said:
I know I was far more hardcore twenty or twenty five years ago. Back then I hunted upland in 4 or 5 states. Deer in a couple. Honestly I don't think I was much fun to hunt with, way to serious. I would get in the field as soon as it was legal, and push the limits of legality in the evening. Lunch on the run between fields and not many breaks. I hunted like I worked, and it really started to become a job. I burned out and took a couple three years off when my third kid was born. Since I have returned, 10 or so years ago, hunting is now a pleasure. I am still serious, don't get me wrong, but as I teach my kids to hunt and I am far less of a dic**head. I don't think hardcore has anything at all to do with type of gun or attire. It has far more to do with attitude. I take a hunt every year to SD in dec. You have to still be a little hard core to deal with that. Brrrrrrrr.
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DITTO, been-there/done-that & have rubbed shoulders with way too many 1000x worse. A really bad-seed version of hard-core hunter lives to hunt, has no other life outside hunting & will often sacrifice marriage, children, work, even hunting buddies on the alter to get to his own personal gratification (& it can happen to anyone much easier than you think)...All I know at this point in my life is a hard core hunter is NOT what I ever want to be again!
 
I agree with you hen hen rooster. I knew a guy that took three months off work every year to go hunting non-stop when archery season started for deer and go till the last day of late seaon of deer ended. Then he would go after rabbit and other types of game when deer was not in.
 
On a thread somewhere on the site a guy just had heart surgery and was still going upland hunting. Cabelas hat or not, thats hard core. When your willing to die trying that is HARDCORE. :10sign:
 
I think is has to do with how much you will put up with to hunt.

I know a three guys that hunted in the freezing rain/snow on a windy day, all day, just because it was the day they had off from work. :cheers:

They were nuts :eek:
 
SetterNut said:
I think is has to do with how much you will put up with to hunt.

I know a three guys that hunted in the freezing rain/snow on a windy day, all day, just because it was the day they had off from work. :cheers:

They were nuts :eek:
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Does it count if a man saves up his days off for bump-n-run on such a PERFECT forecast as this??? On those kind of days the entire prairie (WIA's & all) is like one giant private preserve all-to-yourself & those d@#! late season demon-roosters turn into perfect gentlemen quail for the dog that have to be pushed up with his nose all day long! :D :D :D
 
Phil V. said:
I agree with you hen hen rooster. I knew a guy that took three months off work every year to go hunting non-stop when archery season started for deer and go till the last day of late seaon of deer ended. Then he would go after rabbit and other types of game when deer was not in.
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Yeah I knew a guy in PA that did the exact same thing from daylight till dark 90 days a yr + trespassing on my and all the neighbors land & collecting "disability" checks the entire time so he could afford his little obsession (even though he had no problem whatsoever climbing a treestand or dragging a deer out of the woods) - ANYTHING for that Big Buck!!! To which I said to his face, HEY DUDE - GET A LIFE!!! :( :mad:
 
hen said:
Does it count if a man saves up his days off for bump-n-run on such a PERFECT forecast as this??? On those kind of days the entire prairie (WIA's & all) is like one giant private preserve all-to-yourself & those d@#! late season demon-roosters turn into perfect gentlemen quail for the dog that have to be pushed up with his nose all day long! :D :D :D
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Well that was the plus side to that days hunt :cheers:
 
How about fighting through waist deep snow to try and get to where you can walk. Then through knee deep snow the rest of the way. Add that to 30 mph wind and 40 below wind chill. You walk backward some too to keep the wind from freezing your tears to your lashes. You look like the Michelin man from all your clothes. But it is your day off so you go.:D
 
FCSpringer said:
How about fighting through waist deep snow to try and get to where you can walk. Then through knee deep snow the rest of the way. Add that to 30 mph wind and 40 below wind chill. You walk backward some too to keep the wind from freezing your tears to your lashes. You look like the Michelin man from all your clothes. But it is your day off so you go.:D
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My advice, MOVE SOUTH :D
 
FCSpringer said:
How about fighting through waist deep snow to try and get to where you can walk. Then through knee deep snow the rest of the way. Add that to 30 mph wind and 40 below wind chill. You walk backward some too to keep the wind from freezing your tears to your lashes. You look like the Michelin man from all your clothes. But it is your day off so you go.:D
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Yea when the dogs D!cK freezes to the tree he is peeing on, and you bust it off, and hunt anyway you know your Hard Core. Of course I've hunted waterfowl when I had to dang near bust mine off the tree to keep hunting.:D
 
jmac said:
Yea when the dogs D!cK freezes to the tree he is peeing on, and you bust it off, and hunt anyway you know your Hard Core. Of course I've hunted waterfowl when I had to dang near bust mine off the tree to keep hunting.:D
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yes, bustin' d!cks is hardcore. There is nothing I can say that will hold a candle against that!
 
How about carrying 2 five gallon pails of corn at a time through knee deep snow to feed the pheasants? Does that count as hard core?
 
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