drew - I live in NC near Winston-Salem, any time you want i'll take you. The reasons I hunt are many, but killing isn't at the top. Have you ever sat in the woods when the sun was coming up, and listened to the world the way it was meant to be, before "we" changed it to fit us? Have you ever had a bird land on your hand because he thought you were a tree? How about a squirrel jump on your knee? How about having an owl land on a limb beside you, so close you can see him blink? Or a bird that is so close you can see him breath? When I was younger, I sat on a deer trail, and 5 doe came down the trail, I decided that I wanted to see how close they would get, holding real still, the lead doe actually kicked my foot. Those are things that you won't ever get to see or experience, without being in the woods. Yes, there is killing, and the adrenalin rush from it is something else. The sheer satisfaction of getting everything right and being able to harvest an animaland have that nourishment for my family, I take pride in. It's kinda sets you in mind like how the frontiersmen had to feed their family. A few years of my younger life, I actually had to feed my whole family with the deer I harvested. 25 years ago, on Mount Morris, Pa I harvested my first squirrel with State Trooper Donald Corbett, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Walk a mile in another mans shoes. If you have the interest I will find someone to help you, I have friends all over NC. If these thoughts keep coming up to you, then maybe you should try it.