I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Othmar Vohringer’s blog, “Outdoors With Othmar Vohringer“? Yesterday, Othmar posted a great read talking about the gadgets available today while comparing them to the non existence of such things back not that many years ago. Here’s his take on the present.
Today hunting is all about science and modern technology. Hunting has moved from a simple outdoor activity to a space age technology driven race to sell hunting-success promising products. From the technologically advanced compound bow that can shoot carbon arrows at lightening speeds to the image stabilizing, high precision rifle scope; it’s all here to help us kill that elusive monster buck and the moment we purchase one of the high tech products it is outdated by even better high tech products.
And the reflection on days gone by.
I fondly remember my childhood, sharing hunting camps with my father and his hunting friends in the days where we didn’t have all that science available and the gadgets derived from that science. We wore lots of wool clothing, not camouflaged, which was washed with any old laundry detergent available. Game calls were not invented yet. There were a few old men that could produce a perfectly pitched grunt with the mouth and a blade of grass. I admired these men. The only deer scent we had available was the urine of harvested deer. Obtaining doe urine was usually left to an older hunter. He would head into the woods and about half an hour later he would return with a still steaming doe bladder full of urine. How did he do that in such a short time without the aid of scientifically proven products?
I found his story one of the best articles I have read online in a long time. It would be worth the trip over to have a gander.
Tom Remington
