What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
06-26-2008, 02:30 PM
#21
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
I struggle with none of the above.
I am neither envious or arrogant. I care less what someones accomplishments are.. unless he has a really great family behind him.
I do struggle with want. I'm not sure I will want to bow hunt anymore in the near future.. I really don't know anymore. Hunting has become such a pain lately for me.. I still love it.. but not enough to set aside everything else.
My priorities have greatly changed over the past year.. starting with my marriage to my wife. It really is more important to me to have the children we want together.. than to keep hunting whitetail.
I struggle with the want. Sometimes I don't know if I want it anymore.
I'm just being honest.
I am neither envious or arrogant. I care less what someones accomplishments are.. unless he has a really great family behind him.
I do struggle with want. I'm not sure I will want to bow hunt anymore in the near future.. I really don't know anymore. Hunting has become such a pain lately for me.. I still love it.. but not enough to set aside everything else.
My priorities have greatly changed over the past year.. starting with my marriage to my wife. It really is more important to me to have the children we want together.. than to keep hunting whitetail.
I struggle with the want. Sometimes I don't know if I want it anymore.
I'm just being honest.
06-26-2008, 02:40 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Titusville Florida
Posts: 1,727
RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
I don't struggle with it, i'm actually happy for all of you. I am envious though, but only because the deer population where I live is without a doubt the worst in the nation. I had no probablem killing deer on a consistent basis when I lived in the northeast so I know that I'm a fairly good hunter. I've lived in Florida for 19 years now and I bet that I've seen a total of 12 deer in that time. 
06-26-2008, 02:47 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Memphis TN USA
Posts: 3,445
RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
I don't envey anyone and I'm certainly not arrogant about bowhunting in any way. Why would it have to be one way or the other?
P.S. I struggle with both. I am envious of the guys that live in the midwest and other whitetail hotspots and that have access to primetime properties (cause I have hunted some of them and I know how awesome they can be and I can't even imagine living somwhere like that). But I struggle with arrogance too because I know if I lived in the places that some guys do, that I could still hunt it better than they could
06-26-2008, 02:56 PM
#26
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Polk County FL.
Posts: 769
RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
If I had to chose It would be envy jsut because Im not that experieced with bowhunting and dont have a lot to show for it and nothing to brag about. Im envious of guys setups and spots and knowledge and ect.... But Idont covet.
06-26-2008, 03:18 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
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RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
envy - no. I enjoy watching others succeed. Especially friends and family.
Arrogance - no. I don't even carry pics of my deer in my wallet like most do. Few people have even seen my mounts. I don't have my deer scored. I don't want my heads put in any record books.
My struggle is pushing myself too hard every year. At some point during every season I reach a point where I cross over from fun to work. When I push to the point where it's more like a job I have to slow myself down and remind myself the real reason I'm hunting.
Arrogance - no. I don't even carry pics of my deer in my wallet like most do. Few people have even seen my mounts. I don't have my deer scored. I don't want my heads put in any record books.
My struggle is pushing myself too hard every year. At some point during every season I reach a point where I cross over from fun to work. When I push to the point where it's more like a job I have to slow myself down and remind myself the real reason I'm hunting.
06-26-2008, 04:06 PM
#29
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: The OH-IO
Posts: 7,103
RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
This is a real question. Do people REALLY do this?
Arrogance - no. I don't even carry pics of my deer in my wallet like most do.
Very common around here.... Deerhunting isa big dealaround these parts.....
I do not carry any photos in my wallet... Actually, other than on here or speaking with a couple buddies I do not talk hunting at all.... Call it arrogant or whateverbut I do not have the patience to listen to the "average" hunter talk whitetail.
To answer the question of the thread.. I do not feel either way.
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06-26-2008, 04:08 PM
#30
Bartender
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: What do you struggle with more as a bowhunter?
A break helped me out Mike and now you see my new chapter with the boys.
I will have a pics in about 1 1/2 hours of us shooting at the chain.
I also believe with the exception of you and a very few others that most of the stuff people type here in this forum is stuff that has been written and read over the years just with their twist and not the experience behind them. I consider myself an average hunter and I love it that way as I am always learning. If I get way to serious im out that is for sure. Also If I ever lose the patience to listen to someone
chat about hunting in general shame on me.
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I will have a pics in about 1 1/2 hours of us shooting at the chain.
I also believe with the exception of you and a very few others that most of the stuff people type here in this forum is stuff that has been written and read over the years just with their twist and not the experience behind them. I consider myself an average hunter and I love it that way as I am always learning. If I get way to serious im out that is for sure. Also If I ever lose the patience to listen to someone
chat about hunting in general shame on me.
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