notnksnemor
The Great and Powerful Oz
What means the most to you?
What you harvest or what you experience?
What you harvest or what you experience?
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The animal or the experience...
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buckpasser
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The experience, hands down. There are normally greater/stronger memories associated to kills though! I think I was raised to believe hunting trips were all business. We weren’t there to sleep in, rest our feet, eat indoors, etc, so I don’t remember too many hunts that were complete busts. We looked like Chechen fighters on a mission!
Hoss
Moderator
It’s the experience for me. Seeing the day start or end and all the things that happen in between make for a good hunt. If critters show up, especially a deer, it’s a plus. Actually getting a deer well that just puts icing on the experience.
Railroader
Billy’s Security Guard.
Harvest? I ain't no farmer. Sometimes I flat kill something and eat it! ?
I enjoy the experience of hunting, fishing, trapping, and the outdoors more than anything. "Getting out in it" and away from the day to day, is most of the enjoyment to me. Nowadays seeing my Grandboys The Kid and Little Brother "out in it" and learning is the most important thing.
I enjoy the experience of hunting, fishing, trapping, and the outdoors more than anything. "Getting out in it" and away from the day to day, is most of the enjoyment to me. Nowadays seeing my Grandboys The Kid and Little Brother "out in it" and learning is the most important thing.
Yep. I don't care about antler inches and county records and such. I enjoy hunting and eating deer.
Gator89
Senior Member
Bringing meat home is the point of hunting, for me.
furtaker
Senior Member
Both.
Kebo07
Senior Member
Experience for me. Not just the memories of the actual hunt but in everything that goes into the making of the hunt. The time spent working in the hot summer building up the sweat equity, the scouting for areas where the deer like to travel, the conversations around the fire, and watching the sun go up and/or down and just take it all that the great creator blessed me with.
Kebo07
Senior Member
But I do very much like to kill one every now and then and enjoy some of the finest meat in the world.
Same here. It's definitely the experience in first place but I would be a liar if I told you I don't really care about killing a deer. That's why I go to the woods.
furtaker
Senior Member
I guess I hunt mostly for the experience, but I guess I'd quit hunting if I never killed anything.
kmaxwell3
Senior Member
Younger me killing now that I am older the experience with kids.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
It’s not only the fishing and hunting and being out with the grand boys. It’s about eating muscadines and simmons, seeing baby rabbits, finding arrerheads,picking up shed antlers,looking around old house places, and finding sticks for walking sticks and much more. It’s about sharing experiences with friends and relatives that you can recall years later and enjoy it all over again.
Can't vote on this one. Both have meaning.
Railroader
Billy’s Security Guard.
Yes Sir.
Pig Predator
Useles Billy’s Fishel Hog Killer ?
I'm in the both group. I dont get bummed if I dont even see a deer. That's just hunting. There's always something to learn just by looking around in the woods. I do get annoyed when I bump deer but always try to turn it into a learning experience or I just suck and get lucky every once in a while.
bfriendly
Bigfoot friendly
I’m just having fun enjoying the outdoors, but I do like to bring home the meat. I also enjoy the whole process of preparing it when I am fortunate enough to get some. For me, the meat itself is a special experience from death til it’s eaten. So I kinda think they all go hand in hand. I wouldn’t enjoy one without the other.
I'm a hunter, not a killer. And I'm proud of that fact.
Both are important to me but the experience wins out. some of my best hunts have not involved my taking a shoot.
There was the time that I had a Grandfather, Son, Grandson trio at the farm and put them all on the power line where they could nearly see one another, That morning the Grandson got his first deer and the Grandfather, from Ohio, killed his first GA deer with a modern rifle. I will never forget that day or those faces. Good times mean way more than killing another deer.
There was the time that I had a Grandfather, Son, Grandson trio at the farm and put them all on the power line where they could nearly see one another, That morning the Grandson got his first deer and the Grandfather, from Ohio, killed his first GA deer with a modern rifle. I will never forget that day or those faces. Good times mean way more than killing another deer.
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