All kidding aside, I hunt because I am a hunter. Not to oversimplify your question because I definitely enjoy hunting for many reasons (i.e. getting away, enjoying the outdoors, time with my dad/my kids, etc.) but I truly believe it is something more basicthan that, something primal inside that makes us (myself anyway)want to hunt.The overpowering urge to hunt all the time,no matter the season. I'm either hunting or waiting (impatiently) for season to open. But even when season is closed I never stop hunting (mentally anyway) constantly scanning fields, analyzing patterns, swimming in aerial photos/topo maps,scouring Hunting.net for trail cam pics ofeveryones potential targets and hunting threads to chime in on, shootingevery weapon I own from every angle I can think of, watching hunting dvd's (some for the 100th time), schedulingevery possible bitof time off between Oct and Jan. that I can.Now that I think about it, it might be an addiction, a sickness even, a form of buck fever that lasts long after an encounter with a deer, a form of buck fever that entrenches itself inthe soul and only grows stronger, a sickness with no known cure, only thetemporary relief provided by the properly prescribed hunting seasons. Yeah, that's it, that's why I hunt, because I'm sick andthe medicine I needcan't be found at any pharmacy, it'sin the huntingwoods.