Getting to your stand in the dark, when everyone else is sleeping, sitting quietly in the stand waiting for daylight and wondering just how big the deer under you is, watching the woods wake up as day breaks, observing God's creation undisturbed, seeing things that non-hunters never see--all of that is good to me. Seeing a huge racked buck working his way towards me will surely increase my pulse rate dramatically though
Dave H,
well put!! I think about that as well. In the dark everyone asleep. Seeing things non-hunters will never see. Sometimes I sit back and say "WOW".
I think when it comes down to it everyone here rants and whines about something at one time or another. Things that go wrong, things that piss them off, how they screwed up, etc............
When it comes down to it though, deep down inside we are all secretly loving it or we wouldn't be here. At the time when "unfortunate"things are happening throughout the season, it seems like the end of the world and you get all worked up about it. When you're sitting someplace in the middle of June thinking about the past season, you reflect on how awesome it reallly was.
My shining moment this year was that monster buck I spent 3 hours stalking only to blow it in the last 10 seconds about 25 yards away. I couldn't sleep for days. Sitting around with visions of his rack in my mind. Replaying it about 17 zillion times. Now over a month removed, it was an absolute awesome hunt and experience.
BOWHUNTING = THE ULTIMATE SPORT!!