I' ve always believed that we all hunt for different reasons. I even hunt for different reasons at different times of the year. It really doesn' t matter why you do it, if you have a deep need to be out there taking it all in and feeling alive, then get out there and do it. Kill or don' t kill, that is personal too. It is between you, God and the animal.

I can' t imagine not watching the leaves tumble and fall as I wait for a buck, missing the woodies landing in the decoys when it is too dark to shoot and all I can see is their wake, talking at the truck about cutting Joe' s shirt tale, planning the trip to WalMart to buy shells, practicing all summer in the yard, convincing my wife that I just have to get out tonight and that she' ll have to get the kids to practice, finding the best trails for a stand, checking the swamp for scrapes and rubs, drinking coffee in the truck between a morning hunt and an afternoon hunt, my Christmas hunt, oh yeah, the naps...

[:-]sorry, I got caught up in the memories. Either you need it or you don' t. For me, I hope that when I am ninety, I need it just like now...just like twenty-nine years ago. Don' t question why you let him walk. You did. That is a whole new level of being a hunter. Enjoy it!

Greg