Age is a funny thing. When I was young I was an ardent big game hunter. If I was tagged out I would go with friends to help if I could and nobody turns down help packing an elk out.
My wife and kids lived on wild game for years.
for the last ten years I have not wanted to shoot any big game animal. I have. Nothing against it and encourage anyone who hasn’t to try it. Just not something that I am still interested in doing. It isn’t the work involved that has turned off my drive. It is just that the desire to kill a deer or elk is gone. My dear old dad warned me it would happen and in my mid 30’s when he told me I thought he was wrong. When I hit about 50 the dive started to wane and now it is gone.
Oddly, I still hunt upland bird hard and have no misgivings about it.
I think we grow more sensitive to our activities and more civilized in our endeavors to interact with the creature nature surrounds us with.
I have not killed a fish in decades. However last year I had a hankering for a shore lunch of wild trout and fried potatoes with onions. Had no issue with killing that 16” trout and it was as I anticipated, delicious.
My wife and kids lived on wild game for years.
for the last ten years I have not wanted to shoot any big game animal. I have. Nothing against it and encourage anyone who hasn’t to try it. Just not something that I am still interested in doing. It isn’t the work involved that has turned off my drive. It is just that the desire to kill a deer or elk is gone. My dear old dad warned me it would happen and in my mid 30’s when he told me I thought he was wrong. When I hit about 50 the dive started to wane and now it is gone.
Oddly, I still hunt upland bird hard and have no misgivings about it.
I think we grow more sensitive to our activities and more civilized in our endeavors to interact with the creature nature surrounds us with.
I have not killed a fish in decades. However last year I had a hankering for a shore lunch of wild trout and fried potatoes with onions. Had no issue with killing that 16” trout and it was as I anticipated, delicious.
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