many reasons..
1. The challenge..
2. The scenery
3. Alone with God..
4. The victory
5. Processing meat..fillinf the freezer.
6.Seeing the look on my kids and wife's face when I bring somerhing home..very rare but it does happen
7. The moment when it all hangs on that one shot..
8.The call on the cell phone to let my wife know I got something
9. The sound of the animals before dark.
a. whip poor wills
b. coyotes
c. deer and hogs walking by
d.owls
10.The different birds I see when waiting in my stand