ORIGINAL: HuntinGUS

WOW![:-] This topic has took off huh?

In my world the top Priorities are God, Family and then Hunting.

1. If not for the blessings from god, I would not have anything....nuff said!

2. Family covers a lot.I am the sole provider for my wife and my little girl. Ican'tonly make choices based on what I alone want. I have to consider the 2 ladies in my life inevery decision I make. What gets effected by this? Everything....not just hunting. Less money because my wife and I decided that her staying home withour child was more important than anything that the extra $$ could provide from her working.

Rather than limit my hunting time, I eliminated basically everything else that I used to do or spend my money on. My wife has also made similar sacrifices.....

No more............Two4 day trips to Bristol TN each year to watch em race @ roughly $400.00 per trip........no more new Bow every other year............no more buying a new gun every year..............no new ATV, Truck, Camper or Boat.

No, I do not have these new things to enjoy, but I have the most important things covered.......

I can hunt with my old Bow/Gun.....both are still killin deer. I can still ride my old ATV to carry em out of the woods...... and I can use my re-built 2003 Trailblazer to get it all back home. The camper and boat are not missed too much because I spend most of my summers now planning my hunts and hanging stands.....

At the end of the day I don't feel like I have sacrificed anything for hunting. I sacrificed other things for my family and that's OK with me.

As for work......all I can say is that it does get in the way from Oct to Dec. every year!

Lighten up fellas! Hunting is supposed to be fun!