Upland4Ever
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How many bird hunters, are deep down inside western or cowboy. In your own opition tell me what people look at us as uplanders.
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Dog Gun Time
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What do you mean by "western or cowboy"? I don't own a horse and I have never worked cattle or ridden in a rodeo. My grandpa and a couple of my uncles were great horsemen but they were farmers more than cowboys. Just because a fellow wears boots and jeans and maybe even a cowboy hat doesn't mean he is a cowboy. That is style but not substance.
I will admit that as a bird hunter I am trying to hold onto a way of life that no longer exists in its pure form. The days of hunting truly wild birds are behind us just like the days of real cowboys on real cattle drives. Without human manipulation the habitat for most of our hunting would not exist, our game birds are viewed as a crop rather than as wild animals. When you look at the big picture our wilderness and our role of hunter in pursuit of wild game is, for the most part, artificial. Like today's "cowboys" we are reaching back trying to bring something of the past into our present day world. For me it is that brief, elusive moment when I am so caught up in the pursuit, in the hunt, that nothing exists outside of my dogs, the birds and me.
Upland4Ever
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Aline in my family the tradition of upland hunting falls into bird hunting. When my dad was a kid grouse and quail hunting my grandparents would take him on horse back to hunt birds. But I nkow must of us uplanders would agree, that you could not just take a normal city guy to walk miles for grouse nor would they want to.QUOTE=Dog Gun Time;118792]What do you mean by "western or cowboy"? I don't own a horse and I have never worked cattle or ridden in a rodeo. My grandpa and a couple of my uncles were great horsemen but they were farmers more than cowboys. Just because a fellow wears boots and jeans and maybe even a cowboy hat doesn't mean he is a cowboy. That is style but not substance.
I will admit that as a bird hunter I am trying to hold onto a way of life that no longer exists in its pure form. The days of hunting truly wild birds are behind us just like the days of real cowboys on real cattle drives. Without human manipulation the habitat for most of our hunting would not exist, our game birds are viewed as a crop rather than as wild animals. When you look at the big picture our wilderness and our role of hunter in pursuit of wild game is, for the most part, artificial. Like today's "cowboys" we are reaching back trying to bring something of the past into our present day world. For me it is that brief, elusive moment when I am so caught up in the pursuit, in the hunt, that nothing exists outside of my dogs, the birds and me.[/QUOTE]
I will admit that as a bird hunter I am trying to hold onto a way of life that no longer exists in its pure form. The days of hunting truly wild birds are behind us just like the days of real cowboys on real cattle drives. Without human manipulation the habitat for most of our hunting would not exist, our game birds are viewed as a crop rather than as wild animals. When you look at the big picture our wilderness and our role of hunter in pursuit of wild game is, for the most part, artificial. Like today's "cowboys" we are reaching back trying to bring something of the past into our present day world. For me it is that brief, elusive moment when I am so caught up in the pursuit, in the hunt, that nothing exists outside of my dogs, the birds and me.[/QUOTE]
Montana Husker
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Things must be differnt in Texas...lol, here in Montana we still have wild birds, drive cattle on horseback, though not for hundreds of miles like our ancestors did, but up here we still work them on horses.
mnmthunting
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All total I have spent about 4 1/2 years of my life in Montana, just about none of it in town. Range Country. most all of my life I've been involved in cattle ranching, haying working cattle etc. Still have a working cattle ranch in NC Minnesota, but my heart is in Montana.
Cowboy, nah! Cowboy types have gone urban, related to the country music types. Nothing what so ever to do with the range anymore.
Cowboy, nah! Cowboy types have gone urban, related to the country music types. Nothing what so ever to do with the range anymore.
CowboyBirdDogs
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I ride horses and work cattle in Texas. It's not what do for a living but that's my goal. Gotta dress the part too. Chicks dig it anyway. :cheers: I'd love to go on a big cattle drive in Wyoming or Montana. I'm starting to get into team roping, it's a good pass time to hunting season too.
Dog Gun Time
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Depends on where you happen to be in Texas, some parts are extremely different. There are still some ranches that maintain remudas and work cows from horseback but honestly there are too many fences and too much progress.
Tough one to answer. One is a way of life the other is a region. I am a westerner from the wild wild west. But I live in a city where the closest cow is 5 blocks away, so I'm no cowboy.
As an uplander I think non-hunters have the same tunnel vision as they do with other hunters, just out there to kill. Not the case, we are sportsmen!
As an uplander I think non-hunters have the same tunnel vision as they do with other hunters, just out there to kill. Not the case, we are sportsmen!