How important is hunting to you?
- Thread starter John Y Cannuck
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I'm a shooter than hunts and chasing game falls after clay target shooting. Hunting is one part of my outdoor activities but certainly not one I'd want to give up. I also do a lot of hiking and birdwatching in the off season (otherwise known as scouting). :wink:
I am not trophy or limit motivated. Better a tasty deer than a big buck. I wouldn't know a Boone and Crockett point if it bit me on the ass. I have no interest in chasing something unless eating it appeals to me which is why I don't hunt woodcock.
My best hunting last year was a duck hunt on Lake Erie. It was a magnificent cold clear fall day, not a cloud in the sky and the ducks were well out of range and very call wary. But sitting in the blind, gun in hand, with a thermos of coffee and the dog, just watching flight after flight go over with all my troubles firmly parked on the shore was a sublime experience.
If I didn't hunt I would have missed it and not that it really mattered I even got a duck.
I am not trophy or limit motivated. Better a tasty deer than a big buck. I wouldn't know a Boone and Crockett point if it bit me on the ass. I have no interest in chasing something unless eating it appeals to me which is why I don't hunt woodcock.
My best hunting last year was a duck hunt on Lake Erie. It was a magnificent cold clear fall day, not a cloud in the sky and the ducks were well out of range and very call wary. But sitting in the blind, gun in hand, with a thermos of coffee and the dog, just watching flight after flight go over with all my troubles firmly parked on the shore was a sublime experience.
If I didn't hunt I would have missed it and not that it really mattered I even got a duck.
gibb..as a grandfather here of five....and i hear another on the way...my prayers and thought,s are here for you and your dear little grand daughter...what,s her favorite book or toy??? id like to send out a gift to try and put a grin on her face
Gibbs, as the lucky father of two healthy little girls, even thinking about your ordeal sends shivers down my spine. I can't imagine life worth living without my two and I take nothing for granted anymore.
Like Gatehouse, I had to pursue hunting on my own and was inexplicably drawn to it when no one in my extended family hunted at all. But my folks didn't get in my way. They just looked a little strangely at me when they got my Christmas list
I'm only coming back into the sport and wonder how I ever left. Every hunt, however short, is like a deep cleansing breath.
Hunting for me takes me back to a time when I hunted with my grandfather and my dad. Both are dead. My father passed away, one year ago this past week.
I hunt with my two girls and I hope they feel the same way about me when I'm gone.
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I hunt with my two girls and I hope they feel the same way about me when I'm gone.
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im sure the starter of this thread would not mind...john y cannuck is this ok with you?Gibbs505 said:fogducker said:that will be awsome......but post it here for all to see
Like to but I do not want to hijack the thread that much!
Not sure what to do now that the OT forum is going!!
fogducker said:that will be awsome......but post it here for all to see
I have resized a couple of photos and put them in the photo gallery
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/viewtopic.php?p=847605#847605
I grew up in a hunting family, and never considered living my life without it. My earliest memories are from when the male members of my family would get togethet and inevitably start talking about hunting. The names of the various places and areas they hunted sounded to me like mystical - almost legendary - locales.
I once quit a job after they re-scheduled my vacation to exclude my hunting week - without even discussing it with me (as if that would have changed my intentions :wink: :twisted: ).
I once quit a job after they re-scheduled my vacation to exclude my hunting week - without even discussing it with me (as if that would have changed my intentions :wink: :twisted: ).
- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
Go for itfogducker said:im sure the starter of this thread would not mind...john y cannuck is this ok with you?Gibbs505 said:fogducker said:that will be awsome......but post it here for all to see
Like to but I do not want to hijack the thread that much!
Not sure what to do now that the OT forum is going!!
John Y Cannuck said:Go for itfogducker said:im sure the starter of this thread would not mind...john y cannuck is this ok with you?Gibbs505 said:fogducker said:that will be awsome......but post it here for all to see
Like to but I do not want to hijack the thread that much!
Not sure what to do now that the OT forum is going!!
Thank you, however, I have posted photos in the gallery section now!
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
I plan my vacations around it seeing as I can't hunt here as a resident until April 14th 2007. Only costs about $1400 to fly back to Saskatchewan for goose shooting. It's a great time to spend with family and friends. Fortunately I haven't had to quit a job for hunting. Luckily all these jokers want to take their kids on summer vacations so that leaves fall wide open for me.
I got into guns and shooting when I was 18, then lost interest for a few years.
When I was 25, I somehow got the idea in my head that I wanted to try hunting. Nobody close to me in my family was a hunter, so I'm not sure where it came from, but luckily I found a kind hunter on another board who was willing to take me out.
I shot 2 does on the last day of the season that year, and I was hooked.
Over the next couple of years, I couldn't get enough. My girlfriend at the time couldn't believe the amount of time I spent online, and reading hunting mags to learn all I could.
THis year has been hard for me as posted in my other thread, and maybe I'm getting wiser as I approach 30 next spring, but I'm taking steps to change the way I live my entire life so I can focus on the outdoors.
Hunting and fishing are the 2 things I can think about to keep me sane, while struggling with near bankrupcy and major depression in the last year.
In 2001, I fished over 100 days (not full days mind you, but even an hour or so in the evening was OK) and I remember how great that was.
My goal in 2006 is to spend at least some time persuing outdoor activities every day. Be it scouting, hiking, camping, shooting, fishing or WHY, this is a goal I'm more committed to than anything since my disasterous experience with Vancouver 2 years ago. (That thread's long since gone I'm sure.)
I've run a financial plan that should allow me to come out of Fort McMurray at the end of '06 or first half of '07 with enough money to purchase a piece of land for a small farm or ranch (another something I know very little about right now...) here in Alberta or BC.
I'll carefully select an area rich in game and sparse on the kind of people I'm growing sick of in the cities.
I guess what I'm feeling is a deep desire to live a quieter life. Hunting and fishing and outdoor activities are the best way I've found to foster quietness of the mind and spirit... so I suppose it's important enough for me to begin changing my lifestyle to gain that quietness.
When I was 25, I somehow got the idea in my head that I wanted to try hunting. Nobody close to me in my family was a hunter, so I'm not sure where it came from, but luckily I found a kind hunter on another board who was willing to take me out.
I shot 2 does on the last day of the season that year, and I was hooked.
Over the next couple of years, I couldn't get enough. My girlfriend at the time couldn't believe the amount of time I spent online, and reading hunting mags to learn all I could.
THis year has been hard for me as posted in my other thread, and maybe I'm getting wiser as I approach 30 next spring, but I'm taking steps to change the way I live my entire life so I can focus on the outdoors.
Hunting and fishing are the 2 things I can think about to keep me sane, while struggling with near bankrupcy and major depression in the last year.
In 2001, I fished over 100 days (not full days mind you, but even an hour or so in the evening was OK) and I remember how great that was.
My goal in 2006 is to spend at least some time persuing outdoor activities every day. Be it scouting, hiking, camping, shooting, fishing or WHY, this is a goal I'm more committed to than anything since my disasterous experience with Vancouver 2 years ago. (That thread's long since gone I'm sure.)
I've run a financial plan that should allow me to come out of Fort McMurray at the end of '06 or first half of '07 with enough money to purchase a piece of land for a small farm or ranch (another something I know very little about right now...) here in Alberta or BC.
I'll carefully select an area rich in game and sparse on the kind of people I'm growing sick of in the cities.
I guess what I'm feeling is a deep desire to live a quieter life. Hunting and fishing and outdoor activities are the best way I've found to foster quietness of the mind and spirit... so I suppose it's important enough for me to begin changing my lifestyle to gain that quietness.
- Location
- Richmond hill, Ontario
I quit my Job about 2 months ago cause they didnt give me the time off......and id do it again if i had to !
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- Location
- Aldergrove BC
No way to describe the feeling when the temperature starts to change and leaves start turning color. I have had many relationships suffer, work takes a back seat and my planets start to align.
