I think at first its just a sport,but after you do it for a while you love it so it is a lifestyle. Its a lifestyle for me.

It's definitely a lifestyle, and I don't think alot of people realize how much some of us put in.

For at least a couple days every month of the year, I'm in the woods doing something that has to do with whitetails. Whether it's scouting and snooping around bedding areas in February, trimming trees before Spring turkey season, running cameras when it's boiling hot in mid-Summer, hunting every available day in November or making one last attempt at a late-season doe. It takes hard work to be regularly successful, there's no way around it. And for alot of us it's a labor of love.

It is not a competition (sport) it's a way of life. If you want to call it anything else try...."pastime" but never a sport!!!

If you didn't have the thrill of the chase, the years of practice it takes to become great, the growing as a hunter, etc... etc... Would you still do it?

If you knew that you could go out into the woods and that big ole buck was just waiting for you to shoot him would you still do it?

No matter how you look at it hunting is a sport. It can also be a lifestyle, a way of life, a passion, a obsession, etc... but it is definitely a sport.

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its pretty much all I think about! haha Probably not healthy Deer and deer hunting had a great article about this topic.

To me bow hunting is a sport (competition between you and the prey). I pretty much only bow hunt now days, because it feels like more of a challenge to me. Some could also say it is a lifestyle because it takes so much time and preperation to seek the rewards that we all want. I think I spend more time in the woods during the fall then with my wife, so I guess it would be considered a lifestyle after all

You obviously missed the point of the entire post.

Definatly a life style as I have hunted 44 years with a bow and harvested just about everything in north america. Major addiction.

It's my only pass time, so it invariably has changed my lifestyle. I believe as far as hunting sports go, bowhunting is the closest to an art. Which is why it's my only pass time.