What is your driving force behind hunting?
08-15-2008, 12:55 PM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 99
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
Bowtech, try hunting with a friend. It makes you accountable to each other for getting up and can save gas if you have to drive. Thats what has helped me in the past, although I cant say ive had any issues in the past couple years due to a growing obsession. Now I have GMMATs problem
08-15-2008, 12:56 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West Ky.
Posts: 1,161
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Can't help you there, BT. I have trouble going to sleep the night before.
Can't help you there, BT. I have trouble going to sleep the night before.
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08-15-2008, 01:00 PM
#13
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
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RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
ORIGINAL: NCBloodtrailer
Bowtech, try hunting with a friend. It makes you accountable to each other for getting up and can save gas if you have to drive. Thats what has helped me in the past, although I cant say ive had any issues in the past couple years due to a growing obsession. Now I have GMMATs problem
Bowtech, try hunting with a friend. It makes you accountable to each other for getting up and can save gas if you have to drive. Thats what has helped me in the past, although I cant say ive had any issues in the past couple years due to a growing obsession. Now I have GMMATs problem
2. My hunting land is 300 yards from my back door
3. I have no1 to hunt with
4. Im going to drive a hybrid to save gas when I do.
08-15-2008, 01:06 PM
#14
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Posts: 565
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
Like 'earlyin' said, "just being in the woods." Even though I am deer hunting, I still enjoy the simple things like identifying different birds and watching the squirrels chase each other. To me,it is just extremely relaxing to sit in a treestand and not be thinking about work and the things in life that stress you out. I am not nervous or tense when I'm on stand...I'm totally relaxed and in tune to my surroundings.
08-15-2008, 01:07 PM
#15
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
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RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
ORIGINAL: Bowtech 360
1. I dont drive
2. My hunting land is 300 yards from my back door
3. I have no1 to hunt with
4. Im going to drive a hybrid to save gas when I do.
ORIGINAL: NCBloodtrailer
Bowtech, try hunting with a friend. It makes you accountable to each other for getting up and can save gas if you have to drive. Thats what has helped me in the past, although I cant say ive had any issues in the past couple years due to a growing obsession. Now I have GMMATs problem
Bowtech, try hunting with a friend. It makes you accountable to each other for getting up and can save gas if you have to drive. Thats what has helped me in the past, although I cant say ive had any issues in the past couple years due to a growing obsession. Now I have GMMATs problem
2. My hunting land is 300 yards from my back door
3. I have no1 to hunt with
4. Im going to drive a hybrid to save gas when I do.
I often find myself waking up 10 minutes BEFORE the alarm with that panic swept feeling of OH **** IM LATE. That little panic makes me alert till around lunch time for some reason, hard to settle back down when I wake up like that.
08-15-2008, 01:12 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SOUTH Carolina--I've moved!
Posts: 2,760
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
What drives me to hunt? All of the things that everyone's already named. I love being in God's creation. Even if I don't shoot a deer, I love to watch them. Or watch the squirrels, birds, or whatever comes by. It's such a peaceful time...there's nothing like hearing the woods wake up in the morning. And when a shot comes, be it a buck or a doe....that feeling is unmatched in the world.
It's funny though, getting up to be at work by 8:00 is damn near impossible. But if I have to get up at 4:00 to go to the woods, I almost always wake up before the alarm...especially in the early season. Yep, I've got my priorities in line!
It's funny though, getting up to be at work by 8:00 is damn near impossible. But if I have to get up at 4:00 to go to the woods, I almost always wake up before the alarm...especially in the early season. Yep, I've got my priorities in line!
08-15-2008, 01:12 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Finger Lakes, NY
Posts: 1,613
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
1) Spending time in the woods
2) Quiet time to clear my head
3) The taste of backstrap
4) My wife telling me if I don't get her some, she won't give me none!
(Ok, just kidding on the last one.)
2) Quiet time to clear my head
3) The taste of backstrap
4) My wife telling me if I don't get her some, she won't give me none!
(Ok, just kidding on the last one.)
08-15-2008, 01:18 PM
#18
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Polk County FL.
Posts: 769
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
I just love beeing in the outdoors experienceing God. And the fact that nature happens around you and you are practitcally invisible to them is amazing to me.
I also have trouble going to sleep the night before. Im lucky if I get to sleep by 1 or 2[
]But I also have no trouble waking up any time I go hunting.
I also have trouble going to sleep the night before. Im lucky if I get to sleep by 1 or 2[
]But I also have no trouble waking up any time I go hunting.
08-15-2008, 01:25 PM
#19
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
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RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
I was just thinking to myself and now youll think I just went to a shrink but I just thought of this, I think I dont want to get out there for fear of failure? When I get home my whole faimly is there asking, what you did you see, nuting..
08-15-2008, 01:27 PM
#20
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Posts: 21,043
RE: What is your driving force behind hunting?
I was just thinking to myself and now youll think I just went to a shrink but I just thought of this, I think I dont want to get out there for fear of failure? When I get home my whole faimly is there asking, what you did you see, nuting..
You and I need to talk!....lol
