They steam at home just enough to blow up when we get back.
Second that for bachelor parties out of town and the odd bit of binge drinking followed by a 3 day hangover....
My wife was brought up hunting. She understands it, she has done it (both with her dad and with myself). She has put both big game and birds in the freezer. But is has been at least 5 years since she has been pursuaded to tag along.
I have no idea what she does with herself when I'm gone. I imagine she gets up in the morning, goes to work etc.....
Usually we (my dad and her dad are my 2 main hunting partners, third hunting partner is in diapers
) put in for draws. Moose, Elk, Mule deer & Antelope (no antelope draws in SK for the foreseeable future
) as well as the weekend excursions for Whitetails.
This usually nets one 1-2 week excursion out of town hunting. We have friends and family all over the province so we usually wind up staying with someone we know when out of town hunting. So it's not like it costs alot of extra cash. But it does impact on the available spending cash.
It (hunting costs) still detracts from other things financially, for instance we have not had a warm destination holiday in winter since 2003! That may have more to do with her occupation than anything else, but I digress.....
I am/was planning a northern Quebec caribou hunt for 2014, $3000 + airfare to montreal. That may or may not happen, but that would only be because the season was/is closed due to herd numbers being too small..... NWT or NT would be options but the hunt costs more as well as airfare is triple......
I was invited to tag along with a co-worker to South Africa this August/September. $7000 + airfare and trophy fees...... But with relocating to a new city (this spring), starting a new job (last fall) and building a new house (this summer) it's just not in the cards!
A hunt in Africa is definatly on my bucket list, but it isn't in the cards for a few years yet. I will likely wait untill my boy is mid teens. Perhaps he will be as excited as dad is to go????....... Gawd I hope so, my current hunting buddies ain't getting any younger!
Geez..... I just realized I wrote an essay, mental diarea! I could edit this and take out all the extra info but this was typed with one finger on an iPhone, so it stays!
cheers!
