What kind of hunter are you?

[DirtTime]

Rob, I'm 56 still curve up the water as good as at 25. Ok my falls may be softer but I'm sure you got many years left!

I was just expressing that I love hunting, but I also love other winter sports.

Water may be softer, but it can still hurt. Not like falling on hard pack when the temps are 18 degrees though. Now that hurts like heck. LOL   Time will tell what I have left in me riding down a mountain sideways.

 

Even the years I wasn't hunting I thought about it, a lot. Every day it seems. Still do. But like I said, I also enjoy other things. Sitting around a campfire talking about w/e and drinking a cold beer is fun. Sitting in the yard with the g/f talking about the house we want to buy is great ( although I do often state I want enough land to hunt on ). I would be a die hard hunter if I had my own land and my health allowed to be out everyday.

 

Maybe I am a die hard hunter with no way to express it physically. 

[Mossberg500Guy]

Pretty dedicated obssed and addicted to hunting, every moment i'm non-stop thinking of it, i'll try to get out before the season to scout if the i get a chance,and i'm pretty crazy when it comes to my gear i'll sew leaves to my jacket and pants to break up my outline buy gloves and hats like their going out of style any shirt with a deer or camo on it i will be leaving the store with it, going to the range as much as possible to get the best accuracy i can, i hunt harder than smarter probably but its a challenge walking for miles to get to my hunting spot, sit on the hardest rocks at my hunting spot, pooring down raining or blizzard storm, trudge through puddles and colonies of ticks, sweat, tears, blood are put in every day of the hunt. All to for an animal? but its worth it.

Edited September 5, 2015 by Mossberg500Guy

[sweet old bill]

at 74 I am a fair weather hunter, does not mean I do not shoot a bow all year long to get ready for the season and or have my rifle sighted in and ready to go. I use to hunt all type of game, my hunting buddies for the most part do not hunt any longer and or passed on. I also have my own ills of COPD, plus now living in a new area that does not have a lot of state land to hunt. SO I take a few trips per season back to North Pharsalia are and hunt for the day. I still love the pre season and checking out the land for deer, by taking my old  bow with wood arrows  blunt tip and just shooting stumps and checking out were I hunted the  prior year for deer sign.

[Mr VJP]

I didn't vote "Hardcore" because it doesn't consume me, and it never has.  It's always been my #1 hobby and pastime, but I don't let it wreck other areas of my life like an alcoholic does by drinking to excess constantly.

 

Given the time, I would rather be hunting than fishing, or most other hobbies for that matter.  But my family and my grand daughter will always be able to ask for my time and get it without regret. (With the exception of opening days or a week already planned to hunt)

 

I spend lots of my free time thinking about hunting, reading up on it, meeting friends who hunt, preparing gear, scouting, shooting, reloading and working with firearms in many ways, but it's done during my "free" time.  Other life issues will always take priority.  I don't use hunting as an escape from any of my responsibilities.

 

All that being said, if I were ever to find myself unable to go hunting at all, I would be one very upset man with huge withdrawal symptoms, constantly trying to figure a way to improvise and adapt to satisfy my need for it.  I don't think that's addiction as much as a real love for it.

[Five Seasons]

I didn't vote "Hardcore" because it doesn't consume me, and it never has. It's always been my #1 hobby and pastime, but I don't let it wreck other areas of my life like an alcoholic does by drinking to excess constantly.

Given the time, I would rather be hunting than fishing, or most other hobbies for that matter. But my family and my grand daughter will always be able to ask for my time and get it without regret. (With the exception of opening days or a week already planned to hunt)

I spend lots of my free time thinking about hunting, reading up on it, meeting friends who hunt, preparing gear, scouting, shooting, reloading and working with firearms in many ways, but it's done during my "free" time. Other life issues will always take priority. I don't use hunting as an escape from any of my responsibilities.

All that being said, if I were ever to find myself unable to go hunting at all, I would be one very upset man with huge withdrawal symptoms, constantly trying to figure a way to improvise and adapt to satisfy my need for it. I don't think that's addiction as much as a real love for it.

Certainly never meant anyone to interpret hardcore as putting the sport above family. Strictly looking at it as a hobby you participate in during your free time

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[Mr VJP]

#2 said "it doesn't consume me", so I thought Hardcore means it does.

[Borngeechee]

Very passionate today but if I can get the amount of time out that I want I'd be an addict.

[stoneam2006]

Personally for me I am in the woods any time of day any day of year with or without a gun/traps it's in my blood grew up in it and wouldn't change it for anything...I will say come October and November I am in my peak and seems like no mountain or river will stop me in the pursuit of a whitetail...hoping my son follows in the passion he seems to love to trap as of right now and can't wait for the season to open in lil over a month....

[Doc]

#2 said "it doesn't consume me", so I thought Hardcore means it does.

Yeah, I guess I gave that first choice (hardcore) the same interpretation. The fact is that I do know some that are so devoted and consumed by hunting that it does push aside all other priorities and responsibilities. I guess I do have other non-hunting activities and hobbies that share my interests and pastimes with my needs to hunt.

[Elmo]

I picked passionate.  It is one of my top hobbies but it is not a priority for me.  I certainly don't put it above friends and family.  I am very lucky that I have a wife who understands my passion for hunting and lets me go whenever I can but if an event comes up in which I have to attend (her sisters birthday party, etc.) then keeping my wife happy is more important than an extra day of hunting.

[Pygmy]

Elmo Ol' Buddy... Let me know the next time your wife's sister has a birthday party during hunting season.. I'll get you off the hook..

You go hunting and I'll go to the birthday party...

I'll jump out of the cake in my lizard skin thong..!..

[Elmo]

Normally, it's not an issue. It's just dinner and done. But this year is her 30th so she wants to make it grand.

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[wolc123]

I am probably about as much of a pure meat-hunter as you can get. I live to kill and eat, whether it be deer, small game, birds, or fish. "Hardcore" is almost an understatement. I was just blessed with limits of smallmouth bass each day for this three-day weekend, taking 20 minutes the first day, 2 hours the second, and 1 hour today. I couldn't be more thankful to live in a state where one can easily provide all the protein his family needs, legally off the fat of the land.

Fishing for the year is drawing to a close, the crossbow is sighted in and I am ready to start chasing deer when that season opens in the Northern zone next month. There was all kinds of sign up there this weekend and we saw lots of turkeys also. All those deer up there help me catch fish. They keep the trees trimmed below 5 feet, all the way around the lake so I don't snag up too many of the jigs I make from their tails.

[shawnhu]

Normally, it's not an issue. It's just dinner and done. But this year is her 30th so she wants to make it grand.

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[Pygmy]

Normally, it's not an issue. It's just dinner and done. But this year is her 30th so she wants to make it grand.

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I'm not sure if GRAND is the proper term, but I guarantee that if I spring out of her birthday cake in my thong, it will be a birthday she'll never forget !!

[SCbklyn]

If I lived out of the damn city I would be completely obsessed

[Elmo]

If I lived out of the damn city I would be completely obsessed

It would be awesome if I can just step out my backdoor, walk a few hundred yards, and start hunting. But there are still so many things the city does offer that I enjoy so even if I were to move out of the city, I still wouldn't move very far. For one, all my friends and family are all here. I guess that is why I label myself passionate and not obsessed. There are things in my life I wouldn't give up just to hunt more.

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[BizCT]

Elmo Ol' Buddy... Let me know the next time your wife's sister has a birthday party during hunting season.. I'll get you off the hook..

You go hunting and I'll go to the birthday party...

I'll jump out of the cake in my lizard skin thong..!..

Wearing the thong backwards right?

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Edited September 8, 2015 by Biz-R-OWorld

[Five Seasons]

It would be awesome if I can just step out my backdoor, walk a few hundred yards, and start hunting. But there are still so many things the city does offer that I enjoy so even if I were to move out of the city, I still wouldn't move very far. For one, all my friends and family are all here. I guess that is why I label myself passionate and not obsessed. There are things in my life I wouldn't give up just to hunt more.

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And maybe thats the difference. I've bought 2 houses now based on access and land and not really based on anything else. Of course they checked most of the other boxes of what we wanted, but I could have certainly had a newer nicer house on a postage stamp if the land wasn't so important.

[gjs4]

Why don't you ask how many days of the year you scout or work on whitetail related projects... Think all of the pros would be demoted a few notches fast

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[nyslowhand]

Would have checked all the boxes if I could have!! Depending on....when in my life I've hunted (deer), the time of year, whether I'm sitting in a stand opening day or after numerous hunts w/o seeing any BBs I've caught on cam during the summer. In my early hunting days, all day hunts were pretty typical. Anymore, 3hrs is about the length of my attention span! After my annual withdrawal period (Jan -> March), I'm super enthused to begin prep'ing for the fall hunts. By August, it becomes more of a task or chore moving stands, mowing, etc. Early season I'm super psyched and will sit thru most anything. Further into the season, I'd rather sit at home & look out the window at the high winds, rain, snow, cold temps, etc. 

 

So what am I? It depends on when, where, how or who you ask...

[Five Seasons]

Why don't you ask how many days of the year you scout or work on whitetail related projects... Think all of the pros would be demoted a few notches fast

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Does my time on the internet count? Lol

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[gjs4]

Absolutely- it makes the best hunters out there. After all most everyone on this forum is in a league far above legendary near those of Arrow Gance and Tooshbaggery

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