| Why do we hunt? It is not because hunting is boring | | | | intensive. We practice and fire many rounds |
| and does not make our heart | | | | of ammunition to prepare ourselves for just that |
| race. Most of us spend weeks and months doing | | | | moment. For some of us that moment |
| things that usually do not interest us. We | | | | arrives and everything that we have worked for has |
| punch in on a time clock and have to listen to the | | | | fallen completely apart. We see the |
| rants and ravings of the bosses. We drive | | | | biggest buck of our lives and our nervous system |
| to work usually accompanied by bad actors in traffic. | | | | goes into overdrive. We get the shakes |
| Our lives are harried and we operate | | | | and sweats. We cannot accomplish anything which |
| that way by means of a schedule which usually adds | | | | we have spent months preparing |
| insult to injury. We have | | | | ourselves for. The blood pressure goes up and our |
| responsibilities to our wives, children and mortgages. | | | | chances of hitting the buck with a good |
| We tolerate unhappiness most of the | | | | shot goes down. The barrels of our guns shake so |
| year. How many times during a brutal work day | | | | badly that we could not hit a barn at fifty |
| have you dreamed of the solitude and | | | | yards.In situations like these practice controlled |
| the freedom of an outdoor experience far from the | | | | breathing and good trigger squeezes. Get your |
| maddening crowds? Some of us tolerate | | | | breathing under control along with your nervous |
| bad behavior by bosses, wives, children and | | | | system. Do not look at the animal's horns |
| acquaintances most of the year in order to pay | | | | Concentrate on shot placement. Your mind does not |
| for a week or so of peace in the deer woods. We | | | | need any extra distractions. Keep it |
| work our tail off to make everyone happy all | | | | simple. Most people who have conquered buck fever |
| year long in order to finance a few days of peace | | | | wait until the animal is down before the |
| and happiness for ourselves.Some of us are not | | | | shakes arrive. One reason for hunting is that most |
| hunters. The outdoor experience is available to | | | | people can get in touch with feelings |
| everyone who has a | | | | that have lain dormant since the last hunting season. |
| hobby or past time relating to the outdoors. Bird | | | | Boring jobs with boring people do not |
| watching is nice. Camping is better. The | | | | usually elicit huge happy variations in our emotions. |
| water sports offer real excitement. Fishing is fun. | | | | Hunting can bring emotions to the |
| Hunting can involve all of the above. Many | | | | surface that we have not experienced in months. |
| hunters bring fishing gear along with them to use on | | | | That is part of the reason to go deer |
| that special area of water near their | | | | hunting. We need to feel those emotions. The trick |
| camping space. Many hunters make use of boats | | | | is to keep those emotions in check until |
| and water craft to get them to their | | | | after you know that the animal is down. One |
| special place.Much preparation and expense are | | | | problem solving tactic is to practice firing at life |
| required to put the hunter in just the right spot for | | | | size targets of your quarry. Visualize in your mind |
| the shot | | | | actual hunting situations. Prepare in |
| of a life time. Hunting leases are expensive. Guns, | | | | advance for that buck of a life time.Stephen |
| scopes, camping gear and travel | | | | Graham: Avid hunter and fisherman, writes from life |
| expenses make deer hunting even more dollar | | | | experiences and his own opinions. |