Woodsmanship VS Technology

All the absolute best equipment in the world doesn’t kill game or predators. You can take anyone off the streets and give them thousands of dollars worth of equipment and tell them to go kill a coyote and it ain’t happening. Unless you have an understanding of the game you’re after, you won’t kill it. If you don’t understand wind and lay of the land, you won’t kill it.

Now take someone who understands the game they’re pursuing and nature itself and give them thousands of dollars of equipment and you’ll see an increase in their numbers.
 
Spurchaser said:
All the absolute best equipment in the world doesn’t kill game or predators. You can take anyone off the streets and give them thousands of dollars worth of equipment and tell them to go kill a coyote and it ain’t happening. Unless you have an understanding of the game you’re after, you won’t kill it. If you don’t understand wind and lay of the land, you won’t kill it.

Now take someone who understands the game they’re pursuing and nature itself and give them thousands of dollars of equipment and you’ll see an increase in their numbers.
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Truth! I have confirmed this 😃
 
If it’s “lost” the people who need it won’t be needing it long because whatever they’re doing they won’t be successful at it.

I love to turkey hunt, my wife claims it’s the only reason I have a job, lol. My calling is average at best and probably more along the lines of below average. BUT, I KNOW turkeys and how they talk, react, and move. I understand that my setups kill more turkeys than calling. In order to have a good setup you have to have somewhat decent woodsmanship.

Now I’m still a “newb” at this coyote calling, but I still manage to call one in occasionally. Again, setups play a huge roll in success in my opinion. You have to have an understanding of coyotes and their reactions. You also better understand the land and wind. Without any of that you won’t be killing coyotes.
 
Spurchaser, being a turkey hunter was one of the biggest helps to me when I first began calling coyotes. There are so many similarities between hunting the two species. Think of coyotes as turkeys with strong olfactory senses and you'll not have trouble figuring it out.
 
GC said:
Spurchaser, being a turkey hunter was one of the biggest helps to me when I first began calling coyotes. There are so many similarities between hunting the two species. Think of coyotes as turkeys with strong olfactory senses and you'll not have trouble figuring it out.
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True. You just stick a decoy out in a field and wait. You don’t even need to make a call! :ROFLMAO:

But really, as has been mentioned, all the tech in the world won’t make you a successful hunter. You gotta know about the target species in depth. The how’s, what’s, where’s, when’s and why’s. And then form a strategy that gets you where you gotta be to greet that sucker when it gets there!
 
I know for sure day/night separates the levels of "woodsmanship". For many hunters, outdoorsman the sun setting is concerning, even terrifying. At minimum they lose their composure. Navigation, tracking and basic survival skills are forgotten.
 
All you can do is try to pass the knowledge onto the next generation. It is going to be their world whether you want this or not. Teach your children how to do it right and hope they remember and believe. It's a tough call with the tech. When is enough enough? For my first 38 years of hunting I hated the ATVs with a passion. Now as I am pushing sixty, I need a little help dragging a deer or bear out. I still believe that hunting from the back of one is idiotic. I guess for me it is a question of how the tool is used. Is it that much different to use a horse or mule to drag something 2 miles? I really don't know. However, I have taught my daughter how to work on an engine, do service on it and use it responsibly. I think those are good skills to learn. Not woodsman ship but good life skills. She knows how to survive off the land in an emergency (I don't want her dying of shame). She knows how to hunt with just the basic tools, how to skin and butcher an animal, how to use a compass and shoot proficiently. Now the ball is in her court. I feel that's the best you can do.
 
Megalon said:
All you can do is try to pass the knowledge onto the next generation. It is going to be their world whether you want this or not. Teach your children how to do it right and hope they remember and believe. It's a tough call with the tech. When is enough enough? For my first 38 years of hunting I hated the ATVs with a passion. Now as I am pushing sixty, I need a little help dragging a deer or bear out. I still believe that hunting from the back of one is idiotic. I guess for me it is a question of how the tool is used. Is it that much different to use a horse or mule to drag something 2 miles? I really don't know. However, I have taught my daughter how to work on an engine, do service on it and use it responsibly. I think those are good skills to learn. Not woodsman ship but good life skills. She knows how to survive off the land in an emergency (I don't want her dying of shame). She knows how to hunt with just the basic tools, how to skin and butcher an animal, how to use a compass and shoot proficiently. Now the ball is in her court. I feel that's the best you can do.
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This is exactly how I raised my kids. We spent a lot of time in the woods day and night coon hunting. I always carried a compass at night but taught them how to use the moon to navigate and give you a general idea of direction. Shoot and process their own animals and work on their own vehicles. Neither one plans on having kids because of the F'ed up world but we had a good time.
 
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