Great vid Chris, hit a nerve I didn't think I had, I'm lucky and don't suffer from mental illness but I deffinatly suffer from convenience as it turns out, thanks mate just booked a hunt for me and the young fella this weekend in the hills for a challenge away from private property, can't bloody wait , keep up the good work legend
Michael, you're a legend mate. What a great response. Getting out with your son is the best thing you could do in response. Well done. Awesome work brother! Keep growing and pushing!
Hey Chris.. Your eloquent explanation had more of an impact on me than I thought it would. I to must be suffering from the disease “superfied convenience”. As soon as I finished listening it inspired me to ring my 83 year old father in law in Perth and extend a hunting invite.. (he has long desired to harvest a sambar in Victoria)….now I/ we have the challenge to bring this to fruition… So…. I’m definitely going to need to reach out to others in the hunters club for some guidance.. inner smiles come from assisting others achieve their goals and their subsequent joy👍. Cheers - Marc
Marc you're a legend! Your response is inspiring! I hope you and your father get your sambar and more, that you deeply enjoy the time you get to spend together doing it! You've brought a smile to my face tonight brother. Thank you. Let me know if you have trouble finding someone from the club to assist you with information and ill try and help out :) bless you again brother. - Chris
Very DEEP Chris. The willingness and ability to SUFFER and put oneself thru pain is being lost. As I've said for years, ''youth is wasted on the young"
It's a sad reality, that you need to spend a good portion of your early years before you realise how to use them, and how valuable they are. Many people don't even realise then and continue to waste them. You're right, the willingness to suffer has almost completely evaporated from society. Yet we are still comfortable making others suffer. VERY strange. Thank you for your encouragement, clearly there are still a few of use willing to show kindness and grow ourselves :)
Such a typical boomer comment, because young people of today don’t have to go through the same shit people went through half a century ago they are weak or inferior, or because you had to they should too. You say youth is being wasted on the young, I say old age is being wasted on you.
Jars i think you've misunderstood us. We are not saying that young people are weak or inferior. We are identifying issues in our society which is limiting people. We are also not suggesting that people need to suffer, or will suffering on people. We are suggesting that embracing a challenge is a good and healthy thing. I'm also not a Boomer (but that's neither here nor there). It's not a matter of extremes, it's about balance and taking control of your life.
@@Jars1996 You've taken my coment incorectly, obviously you've been attacked by some one in your life because of your age. My comment means that by the time you go thru the lesons life teaches us the youthfull energy, enthusiasm and physical capabilities are in the past. And I think the youth of today are suffering much more than I did growing up, I would hate to be young in this day and age but I still want the youthfullness.
Thank you Carmen :) I hope people can be both challenged and encouraged by it. Ultimately I hope they can get out there into the wild places and enjoy life.
Well spoken Chris, I realised this about 18 months ago and took up hunting, funny coincidence. Unfortunately the world is on a non sustainable pace and I feel very comfortable going backwards and learing old world ways. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Mitch :). It is sad. But all we can do is encourage the people who are willing to listen that maybe some of the 'old word ways' are still the best ways.
For myself I have to overcome the fear of reaching out to others. I find it funny in my own head that in my personal life i am bit socially awkward, always the quiet one and take time to warm up to new people, yet ive worked in customer service based jobs for 20 years and deal with people all the time amd have no issues. I want to learn to hunt and I know that the people I would be connecting with in the club are like minded people and genuine. Dont know what the mental block is, but its the challenge I want to overcome sooner rather than later thats for sure.
Shaun you're 100% correct, it's a great challenge to overcome. One that will open up doors in other aspects of life too, not just hunting. None of us want to feel stupid, or embarrassed. But we cant let that stop us from growing, learning and experiencing all that life has to offer. At the end of the day, you just have to take a chance. Don't forget that a community and club like ours is FULL of people facing the exact same challenge, looking for the same connections. Dig deep brother.
Thanks Chris for the wise words. I know once I pass the first hurdle I'll be good. I guess if it was easy then it wouldn't be worth doing in the first place and just become convenient.
My pleasure @HillDogTV. It's important we all do our bit. I've certainly benefited from the good will and wisdom you've put out there. P.S congrats on the new woman! Hope she's treating you well :)
Wasted 39 years of my 40 living like this because I knew no better. Now at 40 my wife and I live off grid ( not trying to save the world but fell in love with the property with no utilities) work at local dairy farms and just starting harvesting our own meat which include Roo, fallow, rabbit and duck. Pig hunting is still to come. Loving life more than ever
@@Thehuntsmanshow originally we wanted more room to rescue more dogs. But then getting locked up for two years sealed the deal. We needed more room, fell into a rut. We always loved camping so sold up and bought a piece of land where we now have a tiny home. I see comments where people think it's easy but reality is it's bloody hard sometimes....thanks for the content
Very true. It's not easy. But it's fulfilling and that's what life is all about :) Convenience is ok in small doses... But too much of it creates a rot in your life thats hard to shake.
Love the video, mate. If you haven't already, I'd highly recommend reading "The Comfort Crisis" by Michael Easter. In short, it covers exactly this topic. A brilliant read.
Great video, it's good to challenge peoples perspective and I totally understand having been there and fought through it. For me it's not even about hunting, it's about getting out there. Be it camping, fishing, hiking ect. For me though getting into hunting was a challenge I set myself, for years I was like i'll get there one day and I tried a few time but never quite got there for whatever reason. Now having put all the work to get my gun licence ect I fully intend to connect with people this includes my old man who is a hunter himself and my next challenge is to go on a hunt with him and reconnect a bit.
Spot on Matty! My advice? Give your dad a call now, or send him a text to try and find a date to go for a hunt. There is no time like the present. Strike while the iron is hot! Thank you as well for commenting, I'm sure it will be an encouragement for others. Also comment back if you do make that call, or send that text. Keep us in the loop.
G'day mate, good point your making here. On another note though, I'm interested in the video where you shoot a dingo and claim it's a wild dog in the description. Why are the comments turn off? I think what you did in that video was totally wrong. To shoot an alpha dingo to protect feral deer is pretty counter active in managing biodiversity especially given the status of the dingo is vulnerable to extinction. The law seems to be pretty vague but I think that's actually illegal. Please respond. Thanks
Hi Kim. Thank you for commenting. I'm more than happy to answer your questions and clarify some points you made. Firstly, I've never shot a dingo or wild dog. The hunter who shot the wild dog/dingo in the video you are referring to name is Tyson. I was however there when it happened. You'd have to ask Tyson why he shot it, but personally i believe he did it to protect us given the amimal was incredibly agressive and a potential threat to our survival. There were things that Tyson could have to avoid shooting the animal (warning shot for example), however it all happened very quickly and in the heat of the moment when your life is being threatened you need to make a quick decision and that was the decision he made.i have a wife and 2 children and im glad i was able to come home to them after the event. As to the legalities of the event, it was 100% legal, as confirmed by the relevant authorities. Wild dingos can be shot on private property in Victoria where they are a threat to the livestock. They cannot be shot in state forest We were hunting on private property with livestock when this occurred making it legal. This is all assuming that the animal in question was a "pure" dingo too, which is difficult to confirm in the moment. If its genetics were sufficiently "wild dog" according to Victorian law it could be shot anywhere. Allow me the opportunity to clarify my position with a few dot points. I love dingos I have never shot a dingo or wild dog I think we need more wild dingos It was regrettable that the hunter shot the dingo in that video but I'm glad I'm alive. I hope that helps clarify a few things. Happy to answer any other questions you have :)
Thanks for your reply. That's great to hear you love dingos. Thanks for clarifying all that I just sort of thought you'd set out to kill dingos because at the start you say you're going out to see what you can do about the situation so it seemed like you kind of went out looking for them but I didn't realise you were on private property. In NSW the laws are so lame it's like kill wild dog's but not dingoes but land holders are legally obligated to kill wild dog's and dingoes. It just makes me sad too see this iconic Australian animals being persecuted so heavily. Thanks again for your reply. Keep up the good work. Cheers
Kim you 100% correct, the laws are contradictory and poor. There is a similar impetus for land owners in Vic. The governent has a bounty on wild dogs and say shoot all wild dogs, but sometimes there will be dingo and wild dog hybrids so they get shot (with the dingos too). The truth is that our wild ecosystems in Australia are out of balance and we need more preditors like wild dogs and dingos. On your last point about dingos being an iconic Australian animal, did you know they are an introduced species? They are not native to Australia and their introduction actually led to the extinction of a few native Australian animals that they outperformed. So they are iconic, but not Australian. (Well i still think they are, but biologists would disagree i think). I personally love them not because they are Australian, just because they are an interesting animal worth enjoying. Interesting though how our cultural insights can affect our opinions though :) all very fascinating.
That's a good reason to wait (I'm all for ethical hunting), but whats stopping you going out next week for a scout without the bow? That way you can scout large areas of the SF, find the animals and then come back the week after with both knowledge and finer tuned skills? Hope I'm not being too pushy, haha. Im just wanting to help push people to get out as i know that things always come up and id hate to see you be robbed of your experience. Otto let me know how you go on your trip!!
@@Thehuntsmanshow Not being pushy at all.In fact it’s been a year since I first went hunting for hare at my uncles farm and fell in love with hunting and this is the type of encouragement I need to fully get into hunting.
That's the spirit Otto. I hope you can get out and add some fuel to your passion. Finding the time to get out and hunt is hard, even for someone who is obsessed. That's why it's important we continue to motivate each other. Does your uncle hunt too?
