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Seek One’s dilemma

Opinions aside, it is interesting how much the haters know about seek one.

Still, not one tangible shred of evidence showing the supposed damage they do.

I'm an avid hunter. I watch a lot of deer hunting videos on YouTube. If I'm running the tv, there's about a 33% chance there's hunting videos on. With that being said, two things:

Very rarely, if ever, are seek one videos suggested to me.

And, i asked my wife who seek one is and she didn't have a clue.

Some of you guys are making huge issues where there doesn't need to be any. That's been my position, that's always been my position.
 
batten_down said:
Opinions aside, it is interesting how much the haters know about seek one.

Still, not one tangible shred of evidence showing the supposed damage they do.

I'm an avid hunter. I watch a lot of deer hunting videos on YouTube. If I'm running the tv, there's about a 33% chance there's hunting videos on. With that being said, two things:

Very rarely, if ever, are seek one videos suggested to me.

And, i asked my wife who seek one is and she didn't have a clue.

Some of you guys are making huge issues where there doesn't need to be any. That's been my position, that's always been my position.
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You've posted on this thread 19 times. And, you think we're the ones who are making huge issues where there doesn't need to be any!?!

Let's make it an even 20.
 
batten_down said:
Opinions aside, it is interesting how much the haters know about seek one.

Still, not one tangible shred of evidence showing the supposed damage they do.

I'm an avid hunter. I watch a lot of deer hunting videos on YouTube. If I'm running the tv, there's about a 33% chance there's hunting videos on. With that being said, two things:

Very rarely, if ever, are seek one videos suggested to me.

And, i asked my wife who seek one is and she didn't have a clue.

Some of you guys are making huge issues where there doesn't need to be any. That's been my position, that's always been my position.
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Seek One is now sponsored by Realtree. You'll see more of their content going forward. I watched the video out of curiosity. Can't say I'm a fan of a hunting show that the host takes an ice bath just to show off his physique. I guess we know why their are fan boys now. 😉

This is not my style of hunting. If urban hunting wasn't so controversial then why doesn't Hendersonville promote an urban quota hunt with landowners? They could make some good money from the guys that want to shoot big residential bucks (make it an earn a buck). With an urban deer committee, one would think they could unite hunters and landowners through education and a well thought out hunting program. Instead, they would rather pay the USDA come in to remove deer. That tells me there is a huge issue with this type of hunting and they don't want to get in the middle.


Yes, I know this is an old plan. Tells me they've had plenty of time to unite the sides.
 
@fulldraw said:
Seek One is now sponsored by Realtree. You'll see more of their content going forward. I watched the video out of curiosity. Can't say I'm a fan of a hunting show that the host takes an ice bath just to show off his physique. I guess we know why their are fan boys now. 😉

This is not my style of hunting. If urban hunting wasn't so controversial then why doesn't Hendersonville promote an urban quota hunt with landowners? They could make some good money from the guys that want to shoot big residential bucks (make it an earn a buck). With an urban deer committee, one would think they could unite hunters and landowners through education and a well thought out hunting program. Instead, they would rather pay the USDA come in to remove deer. That tells me there is a huge issue with this type of hunting and they don't want to get in the middle.


Yes, I know this is an old plan. Tells me they've had plenty of time to unite the sides.
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Good post. Thanks for trying to bring it back around to some legitimate conversation.

So, Hendersonville has opted for taxpayer funded management, presumably part of this is sniping deer at night?

If enough of us keep belly-aching, more and more (liberal) city councils will go this direction. We are providing them with the ammunition they need to push through change. (*65+ page threads*) Once they start taking away opportunities, where will all these city boys end up??

Some folks here haven't thought this all the way through.
 
batten_down said:
Still, not one tangible shred of evidence showing the supposed damage they do.
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batten_down said:
Some of you guys are making huge issues where there doesn't need to be any. That's been my position, that's always been my position.
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What's not being considered in this thread is the buzz created by a world record deer. Regardless of opinion, my concern is what happens when that world record is killed inside city limits where an entire neighborhood has pictures of the buck eating their flowers & drinking from their birdbath? It won't just be a big deal in the hunting world anymore. It'll be a news story on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc, not to mention all the social platforms & podcasts. And it doesn't matter if anybody currently recognizes the name of the hunter or business team they belong to. They will once a story breaks about a professional hunter killing a neighborhood buck and claiming world record status.

I'm not worried about cities not allowing me to hunt because I don't hunt there anyway. But I do know the kind of attention a world record draws and in these unstable times where everybody seems to be searching for a fight to have, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the inevitable outrage against hunting that will follow if the guys actually kill a world record inside an urban neighborhood. I've no emotions attached to either side of the argument. But I'm not a fool with my head in the sand, either. Right now those guys are nobody outside of a small hunting clique. Dropping a world record buck in somebody's back yard would change that in a minute.

The one caveat I have to my concern is where and how it happens. If they can kill the buck in a wilderness setting with no visible homes or structures I don't think it'll be as big an issue. No doubt they'll catch some grief from inside the community and quite possibly have some hiccups with getting it certified as a legitimate new record, but it likely won't become a story outside the hunting world. Context is everything.
 
If memory serves me, the Tucker buck was a regular visitor feeding on apples and bird feeders in a nearby subdivision. The buck was killed in a crop field perhaps 1/2 mile away from the subdivision. And now that kill location is a subdivision.

I don't remember one single person complaining about that buck.

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Stephen Tucker Buck: New World Record From Tennessee

On November 7, 2016, Stephen Tucker killed what could be the new B&C non-typical world-record whitetail in Sumner County, Tenn. Here is the full story.
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batten_down said:
Good post. Thanks for trying to bring it back around to some legitimate conversation.

So, Hendersonville has opted for taxpayer funded management, presumably part of this is sniping deer at night?

If enough of us keep belly-aching, more and more (liberal) city councils will go this direction. We are providing them with the ammunition they need to push through change. (*65+ page threads*) Once they start taking away opportunities, where will all these city boys end up??

Some folks here haven't thought this all the way through.
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We are giving them ammo? Or seek one is? Just curious?
 
If the buck and story is even real I don't think he will try to kill it. I'm going out on a limb and gonna say he will let the deer go so people will think better of him. Plus he gets tons of attention because it's a "world record" plus you really think he's gonna let the public decide for him?
 
Acorn Goat said:
If y'all will check out creek kings on YouTube they originally found this deer and posted a few videos and updates like 2 yrs ago poking fun at Seek One ! Then Lee hits them up on instagram questioning about the deer. Then the buck was shot and later met his demise. Who knows after Jay left them don't really care for them much. Although check out Whitetail Adrenaline actual fair chase hunting from the ground.
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It does sound like the same buck but the timelines are different.
 
Antler Daddy said:
The buck was killed in a crop field perhaps 1/2 mile away from the subdivision.
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Antler Daddy said:
I don't remember one single person complaining about that buck.
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It's all right there ^. Nobody complained because it was killed in a wilderness setting, far enough away from a neighborhood that non-hunters didn't have to see it. And it wasn't videoed for entertainment value. That's why context matters. Had the Tucker buck been filmed being shot and/or recovered in somebody's yard, do you think it wouldn't have been a completely different story?
 
Ski said:
It's all right there ^. Nobody complained because it was killed in a wilderness setting, far enough away from a neighborhood that non-hunters didn't have to see it. And it wasn't videoed for entertainment value. That's why context matters. Had the Tucker buck been filmed being shot and/or recovered in somebody's yard, do you think it wouldn't have been a completely different story?
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You are putting way to much emphasis on what other people think…
 
Buzzard Breath said:
Our right to hunt and fish is going to be controlled by the 90% of the population that is neutral towards it. We really need to be concerned about what they think if we wish to continue what we're doing.
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I'm not an elderly man but I've lived long enough to have seen rights and freedoms disappear. Just as it relates to hunting, my father used to carry a rifle to school and kept it in the classroom with him, then would hunt on his walk home. When I was a young man I could keep a gun in a rack in my truck window, and hunt after school. Then some kid took guns to school in Colorado and shot a bunch of people. I had less rights than my father and suddenly had even fewer. And there was nothing anybody could do about it. My son has even fewer rights than I had.

Point being is hunting isn't an inalienable right. It's a privilege that can be taken. And once the general public turns on hunting, there's nothing we can do. It only takes one catalyst being triggered to start the storm. What other people think absolutely matters when we live in a society where every voice is equal.
 
batten_down said:
Good post. Thanks for trying to bring it back around to some legitimate conversation.

So, Hendersonville has opted for taxpayer funded management, presumably part of this is sniping deer at night?

If enough of us keep belly-aching, more and more (liberal) city councils will go this direction. We are providing them with the ammunition they need to push through change. (*65+ page threads*) Once they start taking away opportunities, where will all these city boys end up??

Some folks here haven't thought this all the way through.
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after killing big bucks in the backyard they arent going to Yanahli or any other public land i would bet on that. i had no idea who they were until this thread started. i looked them up on you tube. first video i clicked on they killed a gobbler. took them 3 guys and a decoy to get it done. no thanks, wont be subscribing or watching them again.
 
All these people still defending these clowns are the same ones who hate politicians that stay in the gray area. Just because something is legal doesn't make it ethical, that's the same area politicians stay in. Defend it, like it, hate it, what ever you want to do. But if you honestly think they are a net positive for hunting, you're living in a hole. And all the ones saying you shouldn't worry what people think the government is pulling funding and programs as we sit here talking about idiots.
 

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