RE: New hunter - am I normal?
1.) You have not provided me with enough information to know whether or not you are in fact "normal."
a.) Is normal a good thing or bad thing for you?
b.) If normal is good, then I think you have found enough affirmation from this forum to continue your obsession without any further questioning of your sanity.
c.) If normal is bad, then I must assume that you are massochistic and thereby find all this humiliation (inherit in the terrible notion that you are "bad" by being normal) quite pleasing to you.
2.) I will say that the symptons you have describes seem like quite normal behavior for someone with a bowhunting dissorder. I find that turkey hunting is the most addictive and acute of our ailments.Obsession is a sympton of being a bowhunter. You most likely are infected and will probably have a greater struggle with balancing your career, family, and relationship with God than most of the "normal" people out there who seem only to care about a postmodern world.
oh well...forget all that. Welcome aboard!