when your driving down the road and you see an animal(crow, deer, squirell, etc.) and you form yourhand into the shape of a gun, point at it and say boom.

If you have a deer mount in your living room

If you have climbers in your closet

If you have Borax unscented washing detergent by your washing machine

If everyone you work with ask."Well, did you get one?"

If all your kids and wifecan define the followingwords.
a. Scouting
b.backstrap
c.bleat call
d.climber
e.rubs
f. scape
g. rut
h. shooting window

...you eagerly wake up at 4am to go hunting, but can't stand waking up at 6am for work.

... you can spot a shed laying in the woods, 100yds from the road, while doing 65 MPH .

if every fall and winter you wife complains cause the house smells like HS Dirt Cover Scent.

if the biggest figth you have with your wife is because she washed your hunting clothes in Tide instead of Scentlok.

if your friends can tell hunting season is coming up by the clothes you wear.

if you find yourself checking the HNI forums everyday just to see what has been shot.

You might be a hunter if......

you spend your last couple dollars on a deer tag instead of your utility bills.

you see hunting seasons as irreplaceable, but not your wife.

every cup holder and glove box in your vehicle is full of empty and loaded bullet brass and shotgun shells.

you have more documented paperwork on file for your hunting dogs than you do for your kids.

you do not attend weddings or funerals during hunting season, so you warn friends and family to plan accordingly.

you have about 100dollars into your living room furniture, but over 10,000 into the mounts on the wall.

you have automatic alert emails sent to you from your state game agency for rule changes and news, and read those before opening anything to do with work.

you reference the past based on what you killed in the fall of that year. "96' hmm you mean the year of my 6x6 whitetail."

You spend more on your hunting clothes than your church clothes, or consider the woods your church and skip them all together.

you get lost in shopping malls, but never get lost in the woods even though you sometimes try.

when you hear someone tell their horror story of a bear coming in their camp in the middle of the night you think "lucky, why don'tbears ever come into my camp, I even leave food out on purpose, save me all that hiking and glassing".

you run to-wards the sounds of wild animals while others flee.

your attitude on weather is, the worse it is the less competition there will be.

Your local fish and game officer knows you by name.

you spend a couple hours out of your work day on this site, hoping to someday post enough to no longer be a Fork Horn.

if you get post-partum the day after deer season ends

If you spent less time on internet message boards and more in the woods.

if as soon asyour seasonis over with, you start checking on other states that you could still hunt

....if you spend hours and hours on a forum debating which bow is better