Hunting..a number 1 priority?
06-21-2008 | 03:20 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
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I'm with ya Chris....
But it is amazing how many people thump their chests when they talk about doing ANYTHING family oriented during hunting season. No getting married during deer season. No family vacations (if, indeed, they take a family and not a hunting vacation). Nothing....during hunting season.
I wonder how many families have been destroyed via deer hunting mentalities.
I could go on....but I won't.
My family is my life.
The day I give any hunt, priority over my family would be a day I would need a good beating.
But it is amazing how many people thump their chests when they talk about doing ANYTHING family oriented during hunting season. No getting married during deer season. No family vacations (if, indeed, they take a family and not a hunting vacation). Nothing....during hunting season.
I wonder how many families have been destroyed via deer hunting mentalities.
I could go on....but I won't.
My family is my life.
06-21-2008 | 03:23 PM
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I'm with ya Chris....
But it is amazing how many people thump their chests when they talk about doing ANYTHING family oriented during hunting season. No getting married during deer season. No family vacations (if, indeed, they take a family and not a hunting vacation). Nothing....during hunting season.
I wonder how many families have been destroyed via deer hunting mentalities.
I could go on....but I won't.
My family is my life.
The day I give any hunt, priority over my family would be a day I would need a good beating.
But it is amazing how many people thump their chests when they talk about doing ANYTHING family oriented during hunting season. No getting married during deer season. No family vacations (if, indeed, they take a family and not a hunting vacation). Nothing....during hunting season.
I wonder how many families have been destroyed via deer hunting mentalities.
I could go on....but I won't.
My family is my life.
06-21-2008 | 03:29 PM
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
I would consider it my primary RECREATIONAL priority. But certainly not above the responsibilities I have to my loved ones. I've heard plenty of horror stories of spouses/girlfriends who go absolutely ballistic ifa guy doesn't devote 110% of their freetime to family. That's every bit as unhealthy as the schmuck who calls off work and forgets s/he has children during the deer season. It's all aboutcompromise.
06-21-2008 | 03:34 PM
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
Family is priority number ONE. Above and beyond anything else.
BUT.......... why on Earth would someone agree to planning a wedding during hunting season? What would the difference be if they had it after?[:-] Also that means x amount of anniversaries which would fall during hunting season. I'd be talking my significant other into a summer wedding.
BUT.......... why on Earth would someone agree to planning a wedding during hunting season? What would the difference be if they had it after?[:-] Also that means x amount of anniversaries which would fall during hunting season. I'd be talking my significant other into a summer wedding.
06-21-2008 | 03:54 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
No getting married during deer season. No family vacations (if, indeed, they take a family and not a hunting vacation). Nothing....during hunting season.
06-21-2008 | 04:04 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
Family is first, there should really be no question here.... but describe to me at what point do you guys decide that your going hunting?? I know that this will pertain to very few, but with somehting like a 51% divorce rate in the US. Somebody on here has a nagging wife. and thats what im getting at. You love her to death... but you cant take a dump without her fussing about how many sheets of toilet paper youve used.
what about you guys?? do you just go and bear the burden afterwards... maybe this has nothing to do with intended thread... im just curious.
what about you guys?? do you just go and bear the burden afterwards... maybe this has nothing to do with intended thread... im just curious.
06-21-2008 | 04:11 PM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
Oh ok, I missunderstood. I thought people or you were saying that its bad of hunters to do that.
But we all know the guy who would NEVER take his wife away for a weekend during hunting season.
We all know that guy who has children with crooked teeth, but he has a new bow.
We all know someone who has a home full of mounts, a cabinet full of guns....a new 4 wheel drive in the driveway.....and his house still has the wheels that it usedto get to its homesite on.
We all know that guy who's single, now....because he made it very clear, at some time during his marriage, that his hunting time would NOT be compromised by anything other than hunting.
I'm not passing judgement on him. He's made that bed. He's identified his "priority".
I lnow them....you know them.
06-21-2008 | 04:17 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Hunting..a number 1 priority?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
It's not my place to say what's right for anyone else.
But we all know the guy who would NEVER take his wife away for a weekend during hunting season.
We all know that guy who has children with crooked teeth, but he has a new bow.
We all know someone who has a home full of mounts, a cabinet full of guns....a new 4 wheel drive in the driveway.....and his house still has the wheels that it usedto get to its homesite on.
We all know that guy who's single, now....because he made it very clear, at some time during his marriage, that his hunting time would NOT be compromised by anything other than hunting.
I'm not passing judgement on him. He's made that bed. He's identified his "priority".
I lnow them....you know them.
Oh ok, I missunderstood. I thought people or you were saying that its bad of hunters to do that.
But we all know the guy who would NEVER take his wife away for a weekend during hunting season.
We all know that guy who has children with crooked teeth, but he has a new bow.
We all know someone who has a home full of mounts, a cabinet full of guns....a new 4 wheel drive in the driveway.....and his house still has the wheels that it usedto get to its homesite on.
We all know that guy who's single, now....because he made it very clear, at some time during his marriage, that his hunting time would NOT be compromised by anything other than hunting.
I'm not passing judgement on him. He's made that bed. He's identified his "priority".
I lnow them....you know them.