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What Does Hunting mean to You

Started by **DONOTDELETE**, January 14, 2008, 07:48:00 PM

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**DONOTDELETE**

I wrote this 2 years ago, So I just wanted to share it with everyone...

QuoteLive to Hunt ... Hunt to Live
 It seems like only yesterday I started hunting, but it's been over 20 years. When I started I didn't have anyone to teach me what to do or how to do it. I just learned on my own. I had started hunting during the "Bad years" of my life; Drinking, drugs and  not really caring what I did or who I hurt.

   Hunting started to mean something to me slowly. More and more the spirt of nature got to me. The drugs eventully stopped and hunting became a larger part of my life.I never felt the peace that I get when I'm in the woods, mountains, or plains. Hunting has become a way of life. I learned to be a part of something more then shooting a gun or a bow, more than  just going out and killing a beautiful animal. I gained more respect of the game I hunted and in return I was giving the game the respect it deserves. Most non-hunters don't understand this and some just don't want to. Ask someone why he/she hunts and you will get many different answers. The only answer I can giveis that hunting gives me peace, and nowadays it gives me life.
   You may ask Why is that? Well, hunting saved me...It saved me from going to jail and from death. BY hunting and stopping the drinking and drugs it added more life to me. I was born with a defective heart valve. The thrill of the hunt is a thrill that no drug or booze can give me. I have  been saying Live to hunt...Hunt to Live  for the past 10 years. Five years before I had found out about my heart. Hunting keeps me alive and being alive is what makes me hunt. Hunters give back more than they take out of  hunting. We as hunters give back to nature what others can only think of giving. Why is it so hard for the so-called animal rights people to see how we as hunters are the ones that help to take care of nature. They feel that hunting is not humane? Well take them to a cattle ranch and then  a slaughter house and then see humanity.

   Not that I'm downing the cattle ranchers or the people that work in the slaughter houses. But look at it this way, a calf is bron a male, 99 percent of which is fixed, and become food for us and we'll also look to see how they are killed. Hunters have the power to bring back what  we have taken, like the buffalo, turkey, elk, and rocky mountain sheep to name a few. I can see that these days everyone hunts in one way or another. We hunt for work, a mate, a car, a house, a way of life. A way of life to live free, happy and at peace with God and ourselves.
           FOR THIS IS THE LIFE I HUNT FOR AND
           I LIVE TO HUNT AND HUNT TO LIVE.
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Gene Roberts

That is great.I love being in the outdooors.Just the initial feeling I get when in tune with nature.I hunt for food and because of the reasons listed above.Your story is truly extraordinary and I enjoyed reading it.
Yea,though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death,i will fear no evil:for thou art with me;thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Psalm 23:4

"Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "           President Theodore Roosevelt

elkkrazy8

Great story Mystic,To me hunting is much more than putting meat on the table.There is nothing more relaxing mentally for me than to be in the woods or the Mnts. of Colo.. Again great story

adkmountainken

hunting and the great outdoors have allways been there for. we are much alike as drinking, drugs and a wild childhood nearly destroyed me yet the outdoors never wavered, it excepted me every time. as i got older and slowed down i could see more clearly how much it all means to me. hunting and the outdoors is the blood that flows through my veins, without it i would be no more.
I go by many names but Daddy is my favorite!
listen to everyone,FOLLOW NO ONE!!
if your lucky enough to spend time in the mountains...then your lucky enough!
What ever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

**DONOTDELETE**

I know there is allot of ppl that can relate to it. When hunting becomes more then just a sport to someone that's when their lives change.This is the part that the Anti's can't relate to.

LEOPARD

Nigel Ivy

"The more I practice, the luckier I get...."

Cherokee Scout

Hunting has a different meaning for me now than it did when I was younger. Then it meant killing something. Now it means being in the woods, sitting and watching. I love to be there, do not enjoy the killing anymore. Sitting on the ground with my back against a tree, sun shining thru the leaves, falling asleep for a while, is a great day.
John

joe skipp

"Neal...is this heaven?" "No Piute but we are dam close". Top of the Mtn in Medicine Bow Nat Forest.

Legolas

"We take life in order to learn how to live life"   Charlie Lamb
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Paul
Things seem to turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out-Art Linkletter

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are probably right-Henry Ford

Shawn Leonard

Other than my family, it means everything to me. It is what keeps me sane when life throws me those terrible curves, which it has done a lot lately. It is my saviour! Shawn
Shawn

JoeM

Always nice to have somthing in life that you can totally bury yourself in when you need a little escape.  Joe
"...there are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm."  Teddy Roosevelt

mcgroundstalker

What does hunting mean to me? Hard to explain. I just couldn't imagine my life without hunting. So much an inner part of me and a motivation to keep myself fit enough to stalk and stillhunt in all conditions.

When you talk about being "saved" from the bad life I understand completely. My kid brother still carries the monkey and, well, although I've never been down that road, I sure know where it leads.

Thank You Sal

... mike ...    :archer:    ...
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"

Bone lake

I wish I could just put it in words and tell you what it means to me.

J-dog

Being around friends, good times, laughs at friends misses, being laughed at for my misses, just being around friends.

Then there is the side of me that usually hunts alone. when with the bow, woods have always been a place of refuge for me.

J
Always be stubborn.

Captain hindsight to the rescue!

Bonebuster

Instinctively, naturally, we are all hunters and gatherers. Even if some of us try to deny it.

For me, it puts my life on the natural cycle of
winter, spring, summer, and fall. I know who I am, and what I am because of it.  

The farther we as humans get from our instincts, the less human we become. Acting on instinct, provides the greatest sense of tranquility, and peace that life has to offer. I believe this is why so many of us look to hunting as an escape, and rejuvination. We naturally NEED to act on instinct, to be truely happy. This is why so many people are so unhappy. They use none of their instinct.

Babies chase butterflies and grasshoppers, when they play in the yard. Take them to the beach, and they will chase minnows. Instinct.

To me, hunting is indeed, chasing butterflies and grasshoppers.

joe c.

Besides my wonderful wife and kids & dog's It is what keeps me saine. Dreaming about the next hunt or outdoor experience is almost as good as the hunt itself. I dident grow up in A family of hunters but we were campers,my dad was in A scuba club that took us to diffrent parts of the state every weekend.
Now not A minute goes by without thinking of deerhunting in some sense,or my next adventure.

Biggie Hoffman

Aw it's just something to do between golf outings......
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"If you are twenty and aren't liberal you don't have a heart...if you're forty and not conservative you don't have a brain".....Winston Churchill

Gene Roberts

"Babies chase butterflies and grasshoppers, when they play in the yard. Take them to the beach, and they will chase minnows. Instinct.

To me, hunting is indeed, chasing butterflies and grasshoppers."

Bonebuster is exactly right.
Yea,though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death,i will fear no evil:for thou art with me;thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Psalm 23:4

"Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "           President Theodore Roosevelt

adkmountainken

Gene,
     i am reading Mary Summer Rain right now, great book!!! her writting style and are very own Killdeers are very similiar and the chose of words is awesome!
I go by many names but Daddy is my favorite!
listen to everyone,FOLLOW NO ONE!!
if your lucky enough to spend time in the mountains...then your lucky enough!
What ever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

buckeyebowhunter

The Thrill of doing what our ancestors did to survive. The peace that mystic mentioned, being with my dad, grandpa , uncle. And sharing hunting stories and lessons learned in life with them. Theres nothing better than hunting or fishing in my opinion. While other kids at my school are interested in parties, drinking , drugs, etc. And gettin into trouble I'm usually in the woods or on the bank at my nearby lake doing what I love to do and having the time of my life. And when someone asks me why I hunt or fish they're usually the people who have never experienced the outdoors.


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