You know I'm not really very informed about how small displacement bikes can be used in the field but I'd like to know more about how! If we can get enough interest I'd like to see a proper thread on it because I think it's an interesting application of the machines.

My great grandfather Crego was one of the top Buffalo hunters during the expansion west over a hundred years ago. I myself haven't done much hunting aside from blowing the head off a squirrel in Malaysia with a Beretta over-under but have a 30-06 waiting to be properly sighted in back in the States.

I've got mixed feelings about hunting and I suppose have felt the "properness" of it revolved around the relationship between the hunter and prey. I don't think that killing for the sake of killing (as in not eating the meat) is cool and hunting a species to the point of extinction generally ticks me off. Also, I think it's about how much the hunter challenges himself to understand his prey, predict its behavior and work in the same environment. Setting up salt licks and hiding in an air conditioned club house isn't exactly my idea of sporting.

But I recognize that most hunters aren't like that and that they do have a connection between themselves, the land and the prey. Animals, esp. herd animals like Elk, have keen senses and have a sense of what "hunting season" and makes getting a clean opportunity to squeeze one off far from easy.

On a trip around North America several years back I stopped at a campground near Waterton Park in Alberta and ended up passing whiskey with an old guy named Don who converted old school busses into RV's, chopped Japanese cruisers and used to bow hunt. He told me some very vivid stories of how he would stalk prey with a bow and I gotta say that stuff is MAD difficult! Also told me about a staring contest with a Grizzley which he was happy to walk away from. I may have never heard better camp fire stories in my life and I hope he's doing okay.

Then of course, the best meat I probably ever had was marinated venison from Montana cooked over a camp fire grill. I can still taste it! While I prefer to do most of my hunting with a Nikon and a telephoto (which I assure you isn't easy either and requires many of the same skills), I certainly wouldn't object to hearing and seeing more about how bikes can be used in any field application...and some pics of fresh cut venison steaks wouldn't get turned down either!



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