Just don't have the urge...

[lightsoutcalls]

  They're a pain to drag out

I threw my back out 2 weeks ago and had to take a week off work to recover.  Only 2 days after starting back to work, I took my second doe with the muzzleloader.  She dropped about 150 yards from my truck, but most of that was uphill.  I went by myself and left my game cart at home.  I looped a webbing strap around her neck and the other end around my wrist and went for it.  She was heavier than my first doe this season, but I enjoyed every yard of the drag. 
I took my first deer only 7 years ago, so maybe that's part of why I still get so excited about it.  When I took my doctor's note in to work (to be able to use sick leave time), my boss, with a smile on her face, said, "you're just going to have to give up hunting".  Later I told her boss that if I had to give up hunting, I probably wouldn't be nearly as easy to deal with at work.  I made sure she understood that being able to hunt makes my day job much more tolerable. 
I don't even mind dressing deer for the folks I hunt with.  I just love to hunt.

[mossy835]

Quit deer hunting many years ago bad back and knee made it too hard to pack them out. Not against it and I have had a lot of fun helping friends get started with the sport. Started turkey hunting not for the shooting or killing but to get out in the woods and enjoy life a little in retirement.

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

We Eat. Sleep. Drink. big deer and turkeys.

There is nothing more gratifying than putting your hands on a mature deer after all the hard work that goes into it.

Until turkey season arrives and you start sawin' their heads off morning in and morning out.

[renegade19]

Took up bow hunting this year at the ripe ole age of 48.  Killed a doe for meat and now I'm hooked.  It still ain't quite the same as spring turkey, but it made me almost forget fall turkeys.

[misfire]

Most of you guys not in the mood anymore, I know how to change that. I will loan you my wife for a week, bet you do your best to get out of the hosue at every opportunity like I do

[Spring Creek Calls]

There is nothing more gratifying than putting your hands on a mature deer after all the hard work that goes into it.


Amen brother!

[slamman]

I have to hunt deer, elk, quail etc......makes the time between seasons go by faster.

[Neill_Prater]

Time certainly changes one's perspective. I started both deer hunting and turkey hunted at about the same time in my life, my mid-20's. Prior to that, I chased only small game, most importantly, bobwhite's. I can truthfully say I was as nuts about deer hunting as turkey hunting for several years, but, gradually, the passion began to wane. Twenty years ago, I would double up on work the last couple of days before our Saturday deer openers just so I could get done earlier and head for the woods.

Now, I'm retired, and can go every morning, if I want to, but often wind up sleeping in. I did hunt most of the day yesterday, our firearms opener, and saw a decent 8 point briefly in the morning. I saw him again just before dark, but couldn't get a shot. I lost sight of him, and heard a shot about 10 minutes later over on the neighboring land, so I don't know if he bit the dust or not.

Rain was forecast this morning. I got up around 4:30 and checked the radar. Looked as if I would probably have maybe an hour after daylight before rain reached my hunting ground. If I had known for sure the buck didn't get shot, I might have, the emphasis being on might, gone, but instead went back to bed. The only time I have ever gone back to bed during a turkey season was if the rain was coming down in buckets .