How important is hunting to you?

Brambles said:
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
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+ i've got the ''chance'' of having a girlfriend that works crazy hours, so I doubt she has a word to say about my hunting...
 
ive been hunting sence i was 10 and im 18 now and i hope to able to hunt for the rest of my life. nuthing is going to stop me i would do anything to hunt.
talk to ya all later
Riley
 
I didn't mind what color the invitations were. I didn't mind what wine went on the table. I was glad she picked a nice Church song that she liked for when she walked the aisle.

But two months before we were married I explained to her that I was not negotiable on one thing.....I will go hunting every year, probably several times per year. I agreed I wouldn't be gone adventuring for months as I did when I was single. But I would go nonetheless. Timing was negotiable except during moose calling season and the deer rut. After 20+ years, I haven't had a lick of trouble about it.

Just a tip for those fellas thinkin' a gal won't try to change you ....set some things straight right off and don't back down.
 
huntinstuff said:
I didn't mind what color the invitations were. I didn't mind what wine went on the table. I was glad she picked a nice Church song that she liked for when she walked the aisle.

But two months before we were married I explained to her that I was not negotiable on one thing.....I will go hunting every year, probably several times per year. I agreed I wouldn't be gone adventuring for months as I did when I was single. But I would go nonetheless. Timing was negotiable except during moose calling season and the deer rut. After 20+ years, I haven't had a lick of trouble about it.

Just a tip for those fellas thinkin' a gal won't try to change you ....set some things straight right off and don't back down.
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Sounds like something "The Duke" would say:cool:
As for how much hunting means to me. Well......when I am not hunting, I am on many different forums dreaming of hunting.
 
It all started when I caught wind of a conversation between her and her friend....."You aren't going to let him go hunting are you"? was what I heard and I figured I better settle that matter right now. I did and it hasn't been an issue since.

If I don't care, I don't add my 2 cents worth. If it makes her happy, then so be it. If I need to say something I do, but I don't sweat the small stuff.
 
Life is hunting for us Inuit, unfortunately weekends only for me unless taking time off work. I hunt mainly caribou, at least a dozen for drying meat, as much as we can in the fall when they are fat and cache them and try to have meat all throughout the year.
 
Hunting has took over my life, at times I wonder if I made the wrong choice , but its kinda to late now. The outdoors is just a part of me , and meeting people along the way is another part I like about hunting. Others that do the same as I ...BT
 
The more I learn, the more I love hunting ... it's great to clear the mind! Cheers CGNer's,

Otokiak ... :cool:
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA

p.s. jebus check out this hero ... :rolleyes:

It is more of a lifestyle and a philosophy than a sport for me...
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BIGREDD said:
Do you Barbeque right on the Altar.........:cool:
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DO I!?!?!

It is written in stone that the day of the kill (for big game), the tenderloins are to be removed immediately and cooked on an open flame. (preferrably hickory).

Other than that, the breaking of bread, the chugg'n of wine and all other ceremonial raule apply...
 
Yes we're quite fortunate to be able to hunt freely, just a few restrictions on polar bear & narwhal quotas, fox-trapping season to name a few. Otherwise, we have no limits for other animals but just take only what we need.
Was planning to go caribou and polar bear hunting this weekend but we have blizzard most of this week and on Saturday, may go only for a day trip on Sunday "weather permitting".
 
If the girlfriend said that I couldnt hunt, I would tell her to go find somebody else.

Priorities always come first.

dating women is like fishing. Some are keepers and some are the catch and release species.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
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?
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For me personally, not so much at this point in my life, but it's important to me that people be able to continue to to do it and enjoy it.

It's how we've gotten our food since the beginning of time, and as long as we eat meat, it's something that'll be part of us. There's also something important about being able to pass on the knowledge and teach your kids how to hunt, too.
 
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