Losing my desire to hunt
 

I live in the rockies and moved here to basically hunt. Starting last year, I just didn't really have the desire. This year if it were not for Montana Bob I probably wouldn't have even gone. I could care less about shooting a big buck, and plan on whacking a WT doe with my ES tag just for meat. I have zero desire to hunt elk as I find the effort more then the reward. I don't really know whats going on as I have hunted since I was chasing sparrows with my BB gun. This weekend I pretty much just stayed home even though elk season is in full swing. I just can't get interested and I have been thinking about a different hobby. With all the closures and limited access, hunting competition, focus on trophies, and leasing comming here to Montana, I am thinking of just hanging it all up. I am not having fun anymore, it's time to put away the hunting gear and find a new sport. I went antelope hunting and encountered bad weather. After the storm cleared I got within range of a decent buck, but the long drag back to the 4 wheeler deemed the shot impractacle. Five years ago I would have been thrilled, and the drag not even considered. I would rather be unsuccessful in solitude, than shoot a trophy in high pressure. I didn't come to Montana to run into hunters around every corner.[&o] The desire is just gone, and I don't even know what to do with myself.

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I've been feeling much the same way. I hunt for work and by the time hunting season rolls around I don't really want to face the people, especially the ignorant redneck slob hunters. So, I sequester myself on the edges of the wilderness where there are very few people, and few elk, and the pack is more than most people can handle.

Then when you think about the thousands of dollars you've spent, and the hours of work for about $250 worth of meat. When you could just buy a half a beef for $300 cut and wrapped. I guess since I've already shot two bulls over 320, I've maybe lost a little fire.

I don't know, I still love to go but even though I'm young I already know that "things aren't how they used to be".

I'm lucky though I can do it at work....which is fun.

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Don't feel bad it happens. It seems like the older you get (not calling you old as I don't know your age) the less desire you have to hunt. I know guys that are in there late 60's-70's now that 20 years ago wouldout hunt me in my best year! They just sold most of there stuff and said goodbye. I see you mentioned you said"hobby" well alot of us don't really condider it a hobby but more of a lifestyle. As far as you having alot of hunters to compete with I can totally understand your point but you should try living out East!. Maybe you should just try doing a few hunts each year and really make them count. Also, alot of usofcourse like to harvest game but I hope that wasn't the only reason you were out there? You can stillabsorb and experience the outdoors without hunting. What about the challenge? What about the exercise? As far as the drag thing goes that is alwaysthe best part! You killed itnow its up toyou to take it back to the truck C-H-A-L-L-A-N-G-E! What about the delicious meat (and potatoes of course)Trysome of these things, be ahunting mentor to a child (GIVE BACK WHAT WAS GIVEN TO YOU), buy a camera, get a video camera and film your friends hunting or justgo with the group for the comraderie. I am glad I don't live out West because I would have surely gotten spoiled with all the species to hunt. Oh by the way, did you have any secret spots or leases you want to give up?

What ever you do good luck

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I've been through the same curve, but in different circumstances, as I'm at the other end of the world. We have a lot of hunting here, but once I secured good trophies and had a crack at most hunting options, I started to feel less challenged. Then it was photography. Now I'm more interested in introducing others to the sport.
For my own hunting challenges I travel overseas. Think about doing this, It can be expensive, but there's a lot of hunting options out in the world. Have had great hunting trips to Spain, Alaska, Australia and have one coming up in Utah. I guess Africa will be on the list soon too.
These hunts are what keep me enthused.

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It's all a matter of perception.
For me, hunting is more about persuing the animal,
not possessing it.

It's smelling the pine. Watching the sun riseand set. Reminding myself, as I marvel at the all of nature, just how insignificantme and my problems are. Being in the mountains is almost a religious experience and the primary reason I hunt. Camp. Fish. 4 wheel. etc.

I bet you'll feel different after a strong case of cabin fever!

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I feel the same way. Sometimes I don't even want to pull the trigger. Sometimes I think I've maybe killed too much.

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I can relate directly to what you are saying. I spent 31 years living breathing ,sleeping, hunting. Every dime of extra money I had went toward hunting equipment, I worked every summer straight through while others did the "beach thing" just so I could take the month of November off. I noticed 2-3 years ago the desire wasn't quite what it used to be. I guess the defining moment for me was when I found myself constantly looking at my watch while on stand! I knew then it had become an effort to go do what I had always enjoyed.
Nevertheless I have diversified and went on a couple of spring bear hunts, and they have been a blast! I have a four year old, and I keep telling myself I'm just gonna take a "timeout", and when he gets just a little older maybe I'll get the spark rekindled. If he shows any interest, I have no doubt I will "come back to life". Besides not enough youngsters are given the chance to ever experience what great outdoors and hunting has to offer!

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Well I made it to Alaska in one piece. I was getting a little bummed out myself about the hunting in and around the Bitteroot.
Well now I have a whole different state and different animals to hunt and the fishing is not bad from what I here.
Mulie get the heck out of Montana and come join me in Alaska:D
Montanafornia has changed and will never be the same.
The outside inflences are happening here to but the country is so vast you can avoid some of it.
I will be selling my over valued house and land in the next few years as I work here in AK and will retire here.
This is bar none some of the most scenic country I have ever scene and can spend my entire life here and never see it all.
So much to do herewith so little time left in life.
Mulie you are young enough to pack up and head out. There is plenty of work here and you should have no problem continuing your business up here.
Anyway have to go and get ready for the newproject Monday, I will shoot you an email ina few days and can send you info on this state as I gather as much as I can for myself.
Head over to the house and kick the kids butts out of the living room Monday night and watch football.
Montana Bob in AK

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My guess is that you are not interested in more than just hunting. Do you still enjoy the other things in life that you used to? Could be the big "D": depression. If so, don't let it just hang there, talk to a professional about it. I am as macho as the next guy, but because my brother is a counsler, I have had the opportunity to get some good advice and counseling several times in my life (not by him, just at his recommendation) and I have to say that it made a big difference.

If that is not it, then you may just want to quit for the time being and see if the fire comes back. Or, as suggested above, try something new or take a kid hunting. Today, I get more out of taking a kid hunting than I do hunting myself. This fall, we are having our second annual Father/daughter hunting weekend. Not all the daughters hunt, but they still have a blast. Going to have 7 dads and 9 daughters.

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I feel the same way as most of you. I've done my share of harvesting animals. The thrill of the hunt is still in me but at the point of kill I just don't have it anymore for most animals. But I'm not going to sit here and rot. If the bear, moose, caribou, etc. is big enough I will pull the trigger. My biggest thrill right now is watching my friends and guests get their animals and helping them get them out. I think hunting should be taught to younger people and if they enjoy doing it they should be helped along with it. I have lots of younger people here on their first hunt, no matter what it's for, and I think they deserve all the experience and knowledge I have to give them which I very much enjoy doing.

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When/where/what was the last time you enjoyed hunting?
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FWIW, and somewhat unrelated....

Iused to go"Bambi popping" in the local deer patch back in Nebraska (usually we had 4 deer by noon opening day) with minimal effort or preparation and being hunting pheasants in the afternoon same day.

Now elk season is a major undertaking involving weeks (in varying degrees)of preparation.
I personally enjoy every bit of it and now Bambi popping is justa distant memory.
Elk hunting (or even deer hunting in the high country on public ground) is noteasy and isn't for everyone.
I've tried to impress that point on some folks in our discussions here on the forumsand it seems most that haven't done it expect it to go down like a Bambi pop.

Elk hunting is typically an epic.

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MtBob and I have a spot, where I can pretty easily get into elk. I have no problem hiking many miles into the back country as MB can attest. I just don't want to. I'm not lazy, and I understand the difficulties of elk hunting, both the hunt, and the pack. Even though I am pretty sure I can get into elk, I just don't want to go. Packing the trailer, loading the gear, etc just doesn't do it for me. Same with antelope and deer. It's rather confusing as I have been hunting for 30 years. The excitment just isn't there.
Montana Bob: I will do some poking around, maybe come up there and work for a few months, get a feel for the place.

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Maybe you should hunt whatever you haven't hunted before.Is there anything you haven't hunted? Have you hunted billy goat or bighorn sheep? (Wait, that's even harder than elk hunting, right?)

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Hey, sometimes, a guy just has to find other interests in his life, but you cannot have any regrets whatever you do.

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Muley. I've noticed many of your posts in the last year now & this thought or feeling you have isn't new, it's been sort of eating at you for sometime now. But you're fighting it, plain & simple. Or else you would've been more positive in your thoughts to us here & more confident in your decision. I also feel that hunting isn't the only thing that you feel confused about, it's just the subject we here can relate too.

Certainly nothing wrong with hanging up the killing part. But your knowledge & presence here would be very useful to others. There's ways to be involved in the aspects of hunting without hunting yourself, being here is one example.

There is no black & white answer to your feelings, I too think you have a form of depression. But hey don't fight it & worry about what others think, except the fact you don't have strong desires to hunt & this will be a stepping stone that's a foot in the right direction. Sounds like you have great kids there & just maybe they require more of your time than hunting does at this time.

I think there's times we all have to stop take a deep breath & let it out. Pull out our hearts & examine it to see why we feel the way we do. Only we ourselves can answer that question, but we must be honest with ourselves. By doing this we may be able to make a rational decision for improvement in our way of thinking & heading in the right direction to once again have a positive outlook on the things important to us no matter what that might be.
Remember, we're always here!!! (grin)

ElkNut1

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I think one of the main things about hunting is keeping things fresh. You say you have a spot where you can get into elk. Well, havn't you already killed that elk then? I personally have grown tired, as have my hunting partners, of hunting out of the truck for ragheads around Helena. Now a lot of people would do anything just for a crack at a legal bull, but we've all already killed small 4 and 5 points out of the truck. I enjoy hunting timber, so I've spent a great deal of time working on that challenging aspect of hunting. So that way I've found to escalate my hunting experience. This year We really got into the horse thing, which is really what I thing hunting elk is all about. Going in 15+ miles, setting up wall-tents and killing wilderness bulls has been one of the most rewarding hunting experiences I've had so far. If it's the work you want to avoid, however; I don't know how much advice there is to give you. take care.

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I feel much the same.

Since moving from Colorado and working in the gun/ archery business I have almost no desire what so ever to go hunt these whitetail deer. I am not sure if it is because I get to hearfrom all the slob, idiot, poachers that come in the store and talk about how they kill deer at night, with .22lr's, etc... would at least 50% or more of the deer they shoot at with their bows, have the same idiots come back time an again with the same problems but refuse to listen to advice, etc... etc... I honestly didn't think it was possible to wouldn this many deer. We wonder why we hunters have such a bad public image.

Or if it's just the fact that whitetail deer hunting has got to be the most boring form of hunting known to man. At least down there in Florida/ Alabama where you can't see but 20 yards if your're lucky. I went hunting yesterday (Sunday) till about 9:00am and then came home cause I was bored out of my mind.

It's just not fun.

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Muley, I chased hog dogs for over 45yrs and if I could go tomorrow, I'd sleep in the truck overnight.

I understand where you're coming from, it ain't how it use to be!:)

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What about trying small game hunting, such as hunting rabbits or squirrels with a .22? A very low investment of preparation time is usually associated with this kind of hunting. It is comparatively easy. It necessarily removes the trophy element (what would qualify as a trophy squirrel or rabbit?) and competitive macho element, if those are part of the problem. Maybe hunting something verybasic like squirrel huntingcan reawaken your love of hunting? Just an idea.

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While I guarantee that I haven't been nearly as long as most of you guys I can sympathize with what your saying. It seems that Hunting has gained alot of attention in recent years and most of the descent land tracts are going the corporate ($$$$) lease route which hurts the common folk who want to throw their gear together and head out for a couple of hunts a year[&o].....Alaska sounds great but my wife would never go for it[&o]

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The same thing happend to my grampa who maybe 20 years before would get out his gun and hunt. but now he has lost desire and doesn't hunt at all maybe you should just take one final hunt see how it goes and enoy yourself.

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I understand the point that you guys made and I agree with alot that has been said. I still enjoy hunting and look forward to the fall each yr. The part that concerns me is that now when I'm on the stand my mind always drifts to work. I use to just put everything except the hunt outof my mind and concentrate. However, now I seem to alway be worrying about the opportunity cost of all the time i have spent. Does this ever quit???
Maybe retirement?

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Me too. I been here in Colo livign for six yrs and aint kilt as much as a squirrel despite spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on tag and groceries to say nothing of the thousands of dollars of western slope gas (always .35 a gal more) I have bought. Somehow the law of diminishing returns is playing out here. I hunted 30 yrs in PA andspent less than a thous dollars in all that time on tags. Now I go out at 5am and by 9am I am thinking "why am I here alone?" Everywhere I go now is coyote tracks and coyote tracks and coyote tracks. I really dont think Colo has HALF as many deer and elk as they say they have. ANd they have three times as many coyotes as the game warden( bless her heart) will admit to. Six yrs of tag soup has left a bad taste in my mouth.

Or hell, maybe I am justt gettin old...

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Muley,
I asked earlier but maybe it got lost in the mix....
What and when was the last hunting trip that was great?
(And it don't matter where or for what.)

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I think what you are going through is a natural progression as a hunter. I think after you have killed a lot of animals, the excitment wears off a little.

Myself, I have found that I really enjoy taking different people, especially kids. This year, I took my cousing moose hunting (his first time), and I never really even had the intention of shooting a moose, but I sure enjoyed watching him kill his. Me, I enjoyed planning the hunt, getting the gear ready, tending camp, handling the raft, and butchering a moose under the Northern Lights with a bunch of wolves howling around you until the wee hours of the morning has to count for something.

I have also found that training the dogs is a lot of fun and challenging as well.

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For me ..the poaching, idiots,trophy mentaility, and the whole macho air of the big dollar circus that deer hunting has become has seriously drenched my enthusiasm as well. Most times I go now..I dont even consider picking the bow up when deer show up.

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My "killer instinct" is still going strong.I guess I am arguably blessed with being a reasonably simple "meat hunter" that whacks the big boys if they get in the way (and I have a license) and otherwise "first legal elk" works fine for me (usually have two licenses). For me it is a military operation and I'm there to kick arse and take names.... they provide the arse.

I huntNational Forest and I see lots of other hunters, more than ever back in Nebraska; no problem --- they are just one more competing factor to be dealt with and I'vekinda figured out how to work them to my advantage. I'm just a formerole ranch boy and this is just another harvest with a different twist.

I think about the past hunts and the hunt coming up all thru the year.... the camping, the scouting, the strategy, mother nature, violent weather, field dressing, packing with horses, butchering/freezing meat as a group right in camp, visiting other camps and renewing old friendships on banquet night during the scouting period. Meeting new friends from all over the United States. The excitement elk crashing thru timber and the jubilation of my camp/hunting mates when they score. The musty sharp smell ofelk. I also relish thinking about the moment of the kill, the power of heavy rifles, the K-THUD of a heavy bullet impactingand a pancake clean kill. God, I do love it. All of it.

I must say that after "getting away" from day hunt deer hunting in Nebraska and getting onto elk hunting in Colorado using a remote/away from home base camp/spike camp set up and using horses to pack them out instead of pickups like we did in Nebraska for deer has opened up a whole new world that isn't showing any signs of getting old.... yet.... when it does it will be time to "move on" to something else.... again.

Maybe I should take up golf just as a back up plan!

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Muley, I lost the so called thrill with the rifle, unless its a huge mule deer buck. I have made the switch to archery gear, and it has put the sense of accomplishment back into the game, when I can put it all together. Hell, I lost count of the big game animal killswhen I hit around the 50 mark, but I still get worked up when an animal is laying on the ground because I got it with a stick. The hills are quiet and the weather is warm. The challenge was put back into the game. When the feeling goes away, I will switch to a longbow, just to put the challenge back into it. Good luck.

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Well, I would say three years ago when I hauled my camper up to a little spot I stumbled upon while taking my kid grouse hunting. I took 6 weeks off that year. I passed on several small bulls and chased this huge 6 point. I caught up with him several times but he always gave me the slip. One morning, just as the sun was slipping over the ridges, I let out a locate and got a bugle from right below me. I reconized that bugle, that was my boy, and this time I had him. I peered over the ridge, and 60 yards below he was tearing up a tree. I slipped to within 50 yards and let out a soft cow call, he bolted. Still can't figure out why I didn't just sneak down there and stick him, oh well. After that day, it all seemed to just get blurry. We had an early snow, and the elks' track betrayed them. In poured the hunters, a sea of orange and I hated it. The next season bowhunters crawled all over the mountain, camps were everywhere, the elk were not. A year prior I had my camper in there and never even saw another soul during peak rut weekend. The taste has never left my mouth. I guess I'm too much of an idealist. I really don't want to shoot animals that scurry about running from other hunters. I want to hunt them in a more natural state, by myself, away from the masses. Priorities have shifted, the pressures of running a business, a family, and surviving in the Bitterroot valley play heavy on my mind. I seem preoccupied and as others have stated, I am thinking about other things while hunting, my focus is lost. I am a spot and stalk kind of hunter, like to glass a lot, and that's hard to do when your not focused. I still love being in the mountains, especially in the summer. Last August, I threw the sleeping bag in the truck bed, grabbed a 12 pack of Coors, and went up to watch the persiads meteor shower. When it comes to hunting, however, I just have lost my desire to go up there.

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I think there are times that all of us go through changes that can leave us feeling empty and down whether in our work, hunting, hobbies and part of life.

It helps me to step back sometimes and ask myself and my maker what is important and ask for help to keep things in the right perspective.

Give thanks for all the good times you have had in the fields and else where. Look at the wonder of the creation around and not just the next animal to shoot and be amazed. If you can show a young person what there is to learn about hunting and the outdoors who may not have a dad or someone to teach them those things, it could open a new side of things to you.

Some guys are too busy or don't have the interest to show their own kids the wonders and the how-tos of hunting and how to be in the outdoors safely and have fun. With the knowledge you have, you might be the one who unlocks that hidden world to such a young person that they can enjoy for a lifetime.

Whatever you do, know you'll get through the down times just like you have the good times. I think you'll find your way through this time, too.

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I hear you Muley!

While I'm just a deer hunter from PA, I too have been feeling the urge to quit. I've taken more than my fair share of deer in 30 years of hunting.I hunted PA and West Virginia. I was obsessed with filling all my deer tags. Many years taking 6, 7 or 8 deer a year. After several years I could feel my interest fading. I got burnt out. I got burnt out on the killing part of it. I loved the pursuit of it, but started hating the killing part. A few times, I actually kneltbeside the deer, I'd just shot, with tears in my eyes. I felt guilt. But the next year, I'd be back at it again. It was like an addiction. I started losing interest.Until the kids were old enough to hunt

I have a daughter and a step-son that both just turned 17 this year. I've taken them hunting the last few years and it did help getting my interest back into hunting, but only for a little while.

The daughter has taken about a dozen deer in her few years and she has stated that this is her last year hunting. She lost interest and doesn't care to go.

The boy has been playing high school football and hasn't went much this year and says he doesn't even miss hunting. He's taken about 18 deer while hunting with me, his father and his uncle. He doesn't seem to care about hunting anymore now.

Next year I'll probably be hunting myself and I am also feeling the urge, again, to just hang it up.

I did go on a moose hunt last year and found that hunting a different game animal brought back my interest. I also went black bear hunting in my home state of PA in 2003 for the first time ever. I connected with a bear and it really perked my interest for a bit.


I guess what I am trying to do is give you some ideas of the kind of things that brought back my interest, while I've been fighting this same battle you are. Taking a beginner and hunting a different species will work, if only for a little while it does perk your interest.

Maybe taking a year or 2 off will help get it back.

The one thing that keeps me in it is my love for venison. I like making jerky and smoking roasts.


I hope all goes well for you and you find a way to deal with all this. It's a tough situation. Good Luck!

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Give that spot a few years Muley. The new will wear off for them after they quit killing anything and you can move right back in. I have learned to just enjoy the scenery and the trip more and it does help...I couldnt care less anymore if I kill anything. I dont really have the stomach for it anymore.

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BigBulls,

If I didn't know better, I'd almost think you were referring to different "classes" of hunters (coming thruthe store) and the pursuit of a different "classes" of game (Southern whitetails versuselk)....

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Find another women or hit the cat house.What can one say.You ever heard the song,Can't keep a good man down.Alabama sang it.Pop a viagra hunt pill and you will be ready to hunt again. Maybe turn to God and see how he can help you.

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I only read the first page of this so sorry if its a repeat.

but what i would do is take a break. and wait until the desire is back... trust me it should come back ill give you an example I played Proffesional poker for 5 years and have played poker for 10 any way i was good at had 4 consecutive winning years (the first year wasnt a winning year:D) anyway about 6 months ago i started just going through the motions cause i needed to do it to make money. so about 3 months ago I told myself "seth why do it if your not happy doing it?" so know I am going back to school to get my Bachleors degree for business. but now im starting to get that flame back after about 3 months so dont give up i havent i just took a break. So im starting to practice so i get that killer instinct back. well Goodluck and PS probably just a midlife crisis. youll pull out of it :D

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Wow little off there, okay, where are ya, we need to come over there and smack some sense into anyone who losing desire. So you have a couple of bad seasons or days, don't like that ruin your desire in any way shape or form. Keep them guns and/or bows clean and ready for the next season:)

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i live in the rockies as well you think you go around every corner and see a hunter come to colorado there are so many hunters. i hunt unit 11 the area were the biggest elk heard in the country comes through. It is packed yet i have still killed 2 elk in my last three years i have gone there. you just have to be smarter than the other hunters get up there early set up camp plan everything out.

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Your missing the point. It's not about success or not, it's about the expierence, and it just isn't there. I'm not asking anybody to join me, in fact, I hope you don't. It's just when you've been hunting your whole life and it is a way of life, then suddenly you wake up one day and say "hey, this just isn't that much fun to me anymore", it is an astonishing revelation. There is no depression, no mid life crisis, wife is not cheating, kids are great, all things are pretty good. I've just started getting a bored with hunting, and tired of killing stuff. It's not easy to say that on a site like this. Frankly, I think too many people take hunting way to seriously to begin with, hence the commercialization of hunting today. I still plan on shooting a WT doe for the freezer, but strictly as meat. I just think perhaps the time has come for me personally, to pursue some other hobbies and hang up the hunting gear. I just wanted to see if others had gone through this, and what their reaction was. I have read every post and listened to what others were saying. Lot of good information in here, right now, I just am not sure why I have lost the desire.

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Iknow where you're coming from. I've not quite lost the desire to hunt, but the urge to kill is gone. I've read severalarticles on the subject and they all agree that it is a phase of maturing as a hunter. Many great hunters have reached that point and written about it in their chronicles. I now go to try and take photos of all the things that most other people never get to see and my satisfaction now comes from seeing how close I can get to and turn down trophy game and just being in the outdoors among wild game. It amazes the rest of my hunting friends that have not reached this point in their lives. I also now enjoy taking new hunters out and being their guide. Last week I got my 48 year old sister-in-law her first deer after just last year deciding she wanted to give hunting a try. After seeing the pictures of her sister, (my wife), beaming with her trophy deer, she realized that their was more to living than the hectic city life that she had lived all her life.The rush I receive after they get their first trophy is as good as any that I used to get after taking one myself. We eat lots of venison so I take does for the freezer also. I will continue hunting for our food as strange as that may sound in this day and age. There is no other place that I am more at peace and would rather be than in the wild and thatkeeps the year round anticipation of hunting season alive in me and keeps me sane.Hope you get something from this.

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With me the older I get the more the desire to hunt. But for me it has never been about the harvest. It's the pursuit and time spent in the woods. It's a part of me and I hope I never lose that desire.