If you had everything??

gottafish · 08-01-2006, 04:39 PM

You ever wanted, the best of the best. would hunting still be fun? This is a question the wife asked me. I asked why and she said. You have so much fun just getting ready, and you work all year to get things you want/need. I took a hard look at it and I think it would still be fun but I do like that factor in there "if I just had This" factor. LOL How about you?

cwh · 08-01-2006, 04:55 PM

I hate to say it, but sometimes I am just a gear nut. Decoys, shotguns, rifles, boots, waders, jackets, vests... polar fleece, oilskin, boats, trucks, reloading stuff...
The list just goes on. Would it still be fun if I weren't constantly collecting gear? Yes. I have a feeling I'd just replace it with something else though. Rocks, coins, knives, arrowheads... Just the packrat gene I guess.

I'm not worried about it though. The outdoor industry has people working 'round the clock to make sure that my checking account balance is always low and my credit card balance is always high.

Swamp Puppy · 08-01-2006, 05:18 PM

even if you had everything...you could always count on them coming out with something new the next year. therefore, there would always be something else to get. lol.

heck yeah i'd have fun. it ain't about the gear...it's about the carnage!! me vs. ducks. "superior intellect" against "brain the size of a mouse dropping".

funny how the mouse brain seems to win a lot of those battles.....

ehunter · 08-01-2006, 05:18 PM

I am with you guys gear is always fun to look at and you can never have enough, Although it would be fun to hunt in some of the more exotic places and Rich a place they use horses to get you up some of those hills and see more of the back country. I wonder after all these years of do it our selfs hunt if that would spoil us?

gottafish · 08-01-2006, 05:40 PM

Lloyd, we should sit down and plane a trip someday. Caribou or moose would be a fun way to go. LOL

rimrock · 08-01-2006, 05:58 PM

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switchback00 · 08-01-2006, 06:07 PM

To me I would never be able to have everything, because I believe that you can never scout enough. Scouting time is one thing I can never get enough of no matter what the lady says. I have always found the more you prepare yourself with info about your area and what is going on with the critters the less stress and more relaxing your hunt can be when season rolls around. just my thought

scottishsetter · 08-01-2006, 06:14 PM

I got a 'Master' catalogue today and I found I need (In Sage Green): Henley L. sleeve Tall;Snake gaitors Lwt.;ATV 2500lb. Warn winch; laser range finder; 30mm Ill. Leup.1.5X5 circle recticle; and receiver step for the truck(ahem;;;Dodge) oh oh oh and the Alum Montana inside tent frame w/ feet for the poles. Thats about it 'cept that while putting on socks I promised myself this year I'd just get the good socks I need and price be darned. Then realized my Elk hunt is in OCT.??? heat socks;;;

If I had everything to hunt then it would be CAMP GUNS;RIFLES;Newest solar infa red stand seat...

baltz526 · 08-01-2006, 08:16 PM

come by my house and you can see what it is like having everything, i am at the point of giving things away. to much stuff. i'm in retrograde, starting to go with less stuff. i have enough tent space and cooking gear for ten guys, to go in comfort. we could deep fry whole turkeys while boiling crab when barbecueing steaks eating halibut appetisers, with three large pots of coffee perking.when i go hunting, i can hunt for 14days in every temprature or weather condition from 90deg to 20below and never need to quit to wash socks even after changing them twice a day.

ehunter · 08-01-2006, 08:29 PM

I am in we well talk Barry wants to go and old limbhanger might be talked into it as well we could have a good camp.

duckboy · 08-01-2006, 08:52 PM

IF I DID have everything, I guess I'd still like to have more friends to hunt and fish with, More buddies to bail me out if i got stranded on a sand bar someplace.

Oh yeah, And If i could have a dog that never got old.

That'd be great.

in 'em · 08-02-2006, 11:14 AM

giving stuff away huh Baltz...what do you have? :grin:

I agree, the gear is fun and I don't think I could ever have it all...once the gear is there, start looking at a camera setup to video hunts...then you'll definately realize you'll never have it all!

For me, the hunting would never get old...it's about the challenge, the time spent with others, memories made, being out in the wilderness, an intimacy with the animals and all of God's creation. If I had every piece of equipment and every record in the book, the hunt would still be fun.

billc_sbio · 08-02-2006, 11:38 AM

My parents were living aboard their 40' Ketch (sailboat-some would call a "Yacht") at Santa Cruz, Cal Harbor, getting ready for their 9-month trip down to the Panama Canal and up towards Ft. Lauderdale, where they would live for the next 14 years.

We were talking, and the subject turned to my love of hunting and some plans I was hatching for some hunting trips for the upcoming season...

My father said to me, "Go over to that boat (50'+ Yacht) over there and talk with Andy A., he's a friend of mine and the Gallo Wine Distributor for northern California, he really likes to hunt! You should talk with him."

So I sauntered over and around the maze of dockways and toward the magnificent boat pointed out.

When I got there, there was a young guy, about my age, hosing down the swimstep on the impressive craft.

He asked if he could help me? I asked if Andy A. was aboard or even there?

He said, "Nope, I'm just taking care of the boat for him...Andy and his two sons are off, Quail hunting in Spain for a week".

Well...I guess that says it!

IF I had "everything" (meaning the "means" $$$ to do whatever I wanted), guess I'd be off, hunting WHEREVER I could! :grin:

cwh · 08-02-2006, 02:40 PM

Baltz, this thread actually made me think of a conversation I had with you about Sportsman's. I was saying how I'm like a kid in a candy store in that place (and they have candy too... how strange). Every isle has something that I want/need/can find a way to justify, if not pay for.

You commented that when you went in there for the first time you found a few small things, but overall, you really had everything you needed, so it wasn't that big of a deal. That's just foreign to me, but it sounds like a good place to be. So are you saying that you aren't interested in another savage 99?

gerry · 08-02-2006, 07:22 PM

What do you give to a guy that has everything? PENICILLIN!!

kodiakfisher · 08-02-2006, 09:03 PM

When do we leave, wife wants to know if she can go and how long can we stay. She is Chiropractor and a great game meat cook.

Kodiakfisher

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come by my house and you can see what it is like having everything, i am at the point of giving things away. to much stuff. i'm in retrograde, starting to go with less stuff. i have enough tent space and cooking gear for ten guys, to go in comfort. we could deep fry whole turkeys while boiling crab when barbecueing steaks eating halibut appetisers, with three large pots of coffee perking.when i go hunting, i can hunt for 14days in every temprature or weather condition from 90deg to 20below and never need to quit to wash socks even after changing them twice a day.

baltz526 · 08-02-2006, 10:25 PM

well on the 99savage subject, i gave one away last year. (but) there might be room in the safe for a large bore 99 to keep the 300 company. a list of stuff i gave away, from my stepdads estate: pre64 win 300hh and model 12 trap with custom wood to a nephew, custom 7mm mag and 870 wingmaster, to another nephew, piles of fishing gear/rods to both nephews.12ga charles daly ou and spartan sxs 28ga to cousin and a lot more stuff, they had been in the house for 42plus years and with both gone now it was time for cleaning it all out. it is amazing how much i did not bring home.

Get Bit · 08-03-2006, 06:37 AM

Absolutely hunting would still be fun. If I had it all, I think the biggest thing would be the ability to put the time into hunting I really want to. It would be awesome to take a couple of weeks for the deer and elk season or go to the midwest or Canada for several days every year and hunt waterfowl/upland birds.
OR sometimes I think the Grey Whales have the whole thing figured out with their annual migration: 1. Alaska in the summer 2.Oregon in the fall 3.Baja in the winter 4. Oregon in the spring
Thats probably more of a fisherman's ideal lifestyle but I'm sure I could figure out some hunting somewhere on that route.

It just seems like when you have the time you don't have the money.... and when you have the money you can't take the time. Retirement sounds good right now.

Get Bit

waterfowlin101 · 08-03-2006, 06:54 AM

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It just seems like when you have the time you don't have the money.... and when you have the money you can't take the time. Retirement sounds good right now.

(crap...I'm only 26...long way to go

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Get Bit · 08-03-2006, 07:46 AM

Jon,

Being a teacher also, I have one word of advice for you... start a 403B or a Roth or both. That 30 years will come quicker than you think. Seems like yesterday I started, and in June, I just finished my 20th.

Get Bit

jokester · 08-03-2006, 08:26 AM

Heck yeah it would still be fun!!

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"superior intellect" against "brain the size of a mouse dropping".

Now Ed...don't be so hard on yourself. Those ducks arern't that smart, and you know darn good and well that your brain is bigger than a mouse dropping. Well, upon further review...

-jokester

Fishstix · 08-05-2006, 06:11 AM

Even if you had everything, you could still plan hunting trips. Getting everything organized and planned out is half the fun. Or you can plane trips to secluded fly-in locations.

RAGHORN! · 08-05-2006, 04:35 PM

I know my wife would be happier

she wouldn't get anymore suprises on the Visa monthly statement

yeah right! :grin: There's always something to get, right boys?