Basic Simple Question
07-17-2007, 05:17 AM
#11
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: Basic Simple Question
Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the descendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter. - Finn Aagard
07-17-2007, 05:22 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Southeast, VA
Posts: 2,119
RE: Basic Simple Question
All kidding aside, I hunt because I am a hunter. Not to oversimplify your question because I definitely enjoy hunting for many reasons (i.e. getting away, enjoying the outdoors, time with my dad/my kids, etc.) but I truly believe it is something more basicthan that, something primal inside that makes us (myself anyway)want to hunt.The overpowering urge to hunt all the time,no matter the season. I'm either hunting or waiting (impatiently) for season to open. But even when season is closed I never stop hunting (mentally anyway) constantly scanning fields, analyzing patterns, swimming in aerial photos/topo maps,scouring Hunting.net for trail cam pics ofeveryones potential targets and hunting threads to chime in on, shootingevery weapon I own from every angle I can think of, watching hunting dvd's (some for the 100th time), schedulingevery possible bitof time off between Oct and Jan. that I can.Now that I think about it, it might be an addiction, a sickness even, a form of buck fever that lasts long after an encounter with a deer, a form of buck fever that entrenches itself inthe soul and only grows stronger, a sickness with no known cure, only thetemporary relief provided by the properly prescribed hunting seasons. Yeah, that's it, that's why I hunt, because I'm sick andthe medicine I needcan't be found at any pharmacy, it'sin the huntingwoods.
07-17-2007, 05:25 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Southeast, VA
Posts: 2,119
RE: Basic Simple Question
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Sounds good to me.
Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the descendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter. - Finn Aagard
07-17-2007, 05:34 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Hardin County Ohio
Posts: 191
RE: Basic Simple Question
The outdoors is my life. I love being able to get away for a few hours and not have someone right in your ear all the time. There is nothing more relaxing then the sweet sounds and cool breeze of the outdoors. I want to just become a bum and live in the outdoors my whole life, i swear if i could do that my life would be complete.
07-17-2007, 09:12 AM
#15
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 198
RE: Basic Simple Question
There are so many reasons to hunt.
It is relaxing alone in the woods.
There are no work problems.
There are no money problems.
There are no marriage problems.
There are no kid problems.
There is me, nature, and God. I have found that for me, the two closest places to God are flat on the ground on my face, and 12-20 ft up a tree.
There is the beauty of a sunrise on a foggy morning, and a sunset on a crisp evening, that no man could ever hope to duplicate.
It is the rush of harvesting a magnificent creature, knowing that no drug could ever compare to the high you feel at that moment.
It is all of this and so much more. It is something that has to be expereinced. And once it is experienced, if someone still has to ask, they will never understand.
It is relaxing alone in the woods.
There are no work problems.
There are no money problems.
There are no marriage problems.
There are no kid problems.
There is me, nature, and God. I have found that for me, the two closest places to God are flat on the ground on my face, and 12-20 ft up a tree.
There is the beauty of a sunrise on a foggy morning, and a sunset on a crisp evening, that no man could ever hope to duplicate.
It is the rush of harvesting a magnificent creature, knowing that no drug could ever compare to the high you feel at that moment.
It is all of this and so much more. It is something that has to be expereinced. And once it is experienced, if someone still has to ask, they will never understand.
07-17-2007, 10:01 AM
#18
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 818
RE: Basic Simple Question
1. I enjoy being outdoors
2. I love going one on one with a whitetail deer
3. I love the peacefulness
4. I Absolutly love the feeling just before and after a kill
5. The best of all is being with your friends and family
2. I love going one on one with a whitetail deer
3. I love the peacefulness
4. I Absolutly love the feeling just before and after a kill
5. The best of all is being with your friends and family
07-17-2007, 09:52 PM
#19
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location:
Posts: 7
RE: Basic Simple Question
For me,
It's the adrenaline rush that you get when you see that deer. No other feeling in the world like the one I get when I see a buck out of my treestand.
I've been bowhunting for over 20 years and still get that feeling every time I see a buck. Hope it never goes away!
It is very satisfying to scout, prepare, practice and then harvest a deer.
It's the adrenaline rush that you get when you see that deer. No other feeling in the world like the one I get when I see a buck out of my treestand.
I've been bowhunting for over 20 years and still get that feeling every time I see a buck. Hope it never goes away!
It is very satisfying to scout, prepare, practice and then harvest a deer.
07-18-2007, 03:49 PM
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location:
Posts: 171
RE: Basic Simple Question
I can't imagine life being any different! It is my life. It goes farther than just being out there it goes to reading and educating yourself, hanging out at sites like this frequenting stores looking at products you can't afford that you save up for to buy. It truely is LIFE!