How important is hunting to you?

John Y Cannuck

John Y Cannuck

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It's been a driving force in my life for many years. Something I could think about to take my mind off the #### of work stress etc.
If work had told me I couldn't go, I'd have probably not gone, but I'd have been looking for a new job too.
One of the guys in camp actually told his boss to "#### off" and quit, when he was told he couldn't go hunting. He divorced his first wife under similar circumstances. (He divorced the second :roll: for different reasons)

So how important is it to you?
 
Yeah I spent half of everything I owned to get rid of my first wife... she complained about my hunting once too often :idea:
Hunting is a sport that consumes the lives of many of us... more so than any other sport I can think of. It is more of a lifestyle and a philosophy than a sport for me... I think hunting defines me and it is how I measure myself as a person. :?
 
Spending time with the guys & my son is more important than the actual hunting to me!
That said I did quit a job once when after working 6-7 days a week 10-12hrs a day to get a plant up & running, & was refused even one day for the moose hunt :roll:
 
It is a way of life for me and has been since I can remember. I feed my wife and daughter all year long on the meat I hunt and gather. other than the odd Hutterite chicken, and a few new yorks from the local meat cutter, our diet is pretty much wild game....no growth hormones, no antibiotics and no other factory crap. Clean pure wild meat is what we live off of. My bloodpressure and cholesterol are proof that clean un-bastardized meat is the way to go.
 
For me it is the act of getting out in the wilderness,getting an animal is an extra bonus.Non hunters think of it of just killing,but it is much more than that.There is so much more to experince when you are out in the wilderness.I am looking forward to next years 2 week hunt.Can`t go this year because of a new job.Fortunatly I can be hunting 10 minutes from my house were I am now so at least I can get out when I am feeling the urge for the wilderness.
 
I have quit a job before for being refused the time off to hunt and would do it again in a heart beat. Nothing comes between me and hunting, including my wife. She knows that one September hits, thats it untill December.

I see it all the time, where guys wives ##### all the time about hunting and the time spent away. If I were in that situation, I would take a a life long vacation away from that woman. I love my wife for allowing me to be myself. She knows that the outdoors are the only thing that keeps me from going completely insane :mrgreen:

Growing up in a hunting lifestyle with my old man being a guide in the NWT for about 20 years, nothing else seems normal to me :?. It is in my blood and no person or job can ever take that away from me.

I guess that means it is very important to me :lol:
 
i find that when i'm hunting, i'm stress free. i feel so much better than any other time of the year. I also enjoy hunting as it is the only time a year i see my family (besides christmas) and it the longest time i spend time with them. I only live about 5 hours away, but with work and gas prices, it's either no time or no money.

and i enjoy have the frezzer full of meat, so it keeps my grocery bill down.
 
Hunting is my #1 activity. I take a huge amount of time off in the fall, specifically for hunting. I think this year I have just shy of 9 weeks booked for hunting. Now if my truck wasn't such a gas hog It would be a lot easier on the pocket book, thank god for the ATV's.

The guys at work hate me before I go hunting because I am bugling or moose calling and making gunshot sounds :mrgreen:

My wife doesn't mind my hunting and hasn't complained yet, she actually is starting hunting this year.
Its great having a full freezer, getting out in the woods, I also enjoy cutting my own meat, spending time with your hunting buddy's.

I would say that there is nothing else that occupies my thoughts more than hunting, and certainly nothing else that is worth getting up at 3 am to do :)

Brambles
 
I love Hunting! Next to my children. It's what I love the most. I want to do more and more of it. I get to do about two weeks a year of it. It's no where near enough. In my eyes. The problem is my wife wants me to do less than that. I don't think that's going to happen. The delema I have is my kids are young ages 2 and 5 and not old enough to come with me. I'd like to get the wife to take a life long vacation. That will probably happen in the next while I'm sure. That doesn't really bother me that much. It's being apart from my kids that is the toughest part. The expense is always a big part too. Of course with the expense part I'd have to hunt more so I can eat. LOL. I love hunting and it defines me too! It's who I am and
"I LOVE IT"

Dave.
 
I've been hunting since I was four or five of my 29 years. Whether it's just being a kid with a bb gun or not, it's all just as exciting as you grow up.
That being said it is deep in my blood, it isn't something I do, it is something I am.
I have sold my dirt bikes, trying to sell my guitar and have horse traded too many guns to count but I cannot see myself quiting.

My bride has been very aimiable to let me go most of the time I want. I wouldn't leave her and she wouldn't cut me off.
We have two young kids that demand alot of us so my time afield is cut back a bit till they can go along but I wouldn't count that as a loss either. They are too precious to imagine being so selfish as to leave them for my own play time.
 
I started later in life at hunting as I never had an introduction to it really till I met my wife, but now I have two kids that are keen all be it young, I'm a lifer. I wouldn't quit my job of almost 20yrs but I also have other ways of taking the time I need. I have a lovely wife that supports my habit, I just wish she would come along from time to time to enjoy the beautiful outdoors. There's no nicer feeling than getting to the top of a mountain ridge before first light and watching the sun come up. What work??!!

My sig line pretty much sum's it up :wink: :wink:
 
One of my favorite things. I enjoy hunting, got into the whole shooting/hunting thing myself a few years back when I turned 18. My dad did not want to hunt anymore (in Canada) go figure, he used to in Poland but not here. Oh well. Anyhow, I really appriciate the nice places and things one can see when out hunting. Remeber though, as the c.o.r.e. book says, a true outdoorsman enjoys the outdoors year round not just during hunting season.

Cheers & good luck on your hunts this year.

Alex
 
I enjoy being in the wild better then the actuall hunting. On the other hand there are things that are more important.

My granddaughter was diagionsed with Neuroblastoma, a agressive clumping cancer when she was 18 months old. Now she is three and a half and we have just been told that she has 'hot spots' on her spine. Could be a tumour, either maligant or benign or it could be a lesion, that would be the best result. What ever it is it has to be taken care of and somehow other things seem less important.
 
Sorry to get off topic here....

Gibbs, sorry to here about your grandaughter, this is a perfect example of what else is really important, our families too!

Hope she pulls through, our prayers are with her.
 
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