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Post by bawanajim on May 29, 2014 19:19:40 GMT -5
Is it effort that has dropped or desire?
When the reward is no longer an achievement, what's to drive the commitment?
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Post by Dutch on May 29, 2014 20:02:21 GMT -5
"Effort" means hunter days.
In my case, cost of getting to the hunting area is a factor.
For others in my family, it is available weekend time due to student activities.
It also has to do with deer numbers. Why expend energy and time when the possibility of success is greatly reduced?
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Post by bawanajim on May 29, 2014 21:24:02 GMT -5
"Effort" means hunter days. We have close to four months of deer seasons c I thought residential, suburban and urban areas were our new deer mecca's. Priorities are a part of all of our lives, they always have been, and always will be, choose them wisely. With uncontrollable deer numbers before us, how hard can killing one really be, tots with cross bows seem plenty capable of getting it done, time and time again, realistically a semi skilled adult with a little experience should have a minimum of difficulties finding success often enough to maintain a more than passing level of interest. From what I'm hearing our best hunting has yet to come.
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Post by dougell on May 30, 2014 7:39:38 GMT -5
My son is only in third grade but hedoesn't go to school with one kid who hunts,not a single one.We live in a part of the state that used to be a hub for the outdoors and the kids have no interest.
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Post by bawanajim on May 30, 2014 7:50:53 GMT -5
My son is only in third grade but hedoesn't go to school with one kid who hunts,not a single one.We live in a part of the state that used to be a hub for the outdoors and the kids have no interest. Hey Doug, How many of your sons classmates have fathers at home? Men today seem to feel little need in raising their children, most feel a child support check is enough and frees them up to go on Saturdays, poker run. Kids are left to electronic games for their own entertainment.
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Post by dougell on May 30, 2014 8:34:00 GMT -5
Jim,most of them come from normal families and some of their fathers hunt.That's why I find it strange.I will say,when he has buddies come over,those kids usually don't want to go outside much. I like poker runs myself but I just take my son and my daughter.They both have 4 wheelers and can ride anywhere I go.Last night, I got home from work late,just as he was getting his homework done.As I was finishing my dried up supper he came down the stairs with all his riding gear on lol.He likes to do everything I do so I never say no to him when he wants to go do something.We went for a night ride and got home about 9:30.I work a lot but when I'm not working,one or both of my kids are with me 100% of the time.There's nothing I do and there's not a place I go that they can't go with me without slowing me down or being a pain.
Video games and social media are a huge zits on the rearend of society.They completely eliminate the productivity kids are capable of having.My daughter has a smart phone and it drives me nuts but I won't let them have an x-box or anything like that.We live in the middle of no where so they can shoot,ride 4 wheelers,dirt bikes and horses any time they want and they both do it every single day.It's a big beautiful world out there.Go take advantage of it.I'm lucky because my kids are like that and I never take it for granted.It goes way too fast.
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Post by bawanajim on May 30, 2014 9:20:21 GMT -5
I'm glad people like you see it, I have to work in cities some times and I thank God people care so little as to spend their lives on a half acre of mostly concreat with a great view across the street of a house just like theirs with the dormers reversed to break up the monotony. And then they wonder why their kids don't wanna go fishing with them. Subdivisions are to our generations what video games are to this generation, just A slow toxin that will eventually kill us all.
I have spent my life time buying the adjoining properties to my home, the only stock I own is in my family.
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Post by dougell on May 30, 2014 9:44:19 GMT -5
I've never lived in a house that I couldn't walk out my door and do what ever I wanted and I never owned much property either.I have just enough property that if my kids choose to stay around here,they'll have plenty of free space to raise their kids like they were raised.I sincerely hope they choose that option.When I pull in my lane every night,my daughter is almost always in the arena working horses and son is usually riding around on a 4 wheeler,dirt bike or shooting his bow.Most evenings I just change my cloths and go out and join them.Right now it's baseball season so we'll usually play for 45 minutes or so and then do something else.In another month,we'll start throwing the football around most evening.Most of the time,some shooting practice is also thrown in.
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Post by bawanajim on May 30, 2014 10:52:48 GMT -5
Most of these subdivision kids have as much room in their in their rooms as they do in their back yards. I can't figure how they get fat or ADHD or worse yet join some environmental movement that know absolutely nothing about. Let's keep them on paxil and concrete, its easer than raising them in the outdoors.
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Post by bawanajim on May 30, 2014 10:55:53 GMT -5
I will never understand the urban mindset, when my neighbors here gun fire they grab a cooler and a gun and join us. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by bake545 on May 30, 2014 11:03:42 GMT -5
It's not that they live in a sub disivision, it's they never go outside except for their organized sports! I've lived in a housing plan of one sort or another since I was 10 (I'm 36 now) and never had any shortage of the outdoors. Whether that was running around the woods or playing sports I was outside most of the time. And I had a Nintendo, so we had video games too. I'm pretty sure I played basketball everyday in the summer if it wasn't raining. I rarely see kids playing pick up games of anything in my neighborhood. The nice thing about a housing plan is there were usually enough kids around to play actual games, even baseball sometimes.
My oldest son likes to play video games but we do try to limit it. It comes in handy in certain situation when you don't want them bouncy off the walls! If it's nice out and we are home we are usually outside playing.
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Post by dougell on May 30, 2014 11:10:20 GMT -5
There's a big difference between bouncing a bal around on a nintendo compared to call of duty.
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Post by bawanajim on May 30, 2014 12:03:51 GMT -5
I never minded fishing alone, a bycle took us any where we wanted to go. They made fun of us when we went to school in town, and we wondered how bad a family must have it to live with neighbors looking in your windows and not even enough room for a kid to raise a beagle pup. Today the more I know about people the more I believe most of them deserve to live like prisoners of their own making, its the kids that deserve a better way of life than the ones their parents forfeited all in the name of greed.
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Post by cspot on May 30, 2014 20:33:01 GMT -5
My kids like to play video games but we limit it to no more than a half hour per night unless the weather is bad.
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