paintballdude902
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now i know that im not old at all only being 19 but i have begun to notice a change in my feelings towards hunting in the last year. i began hunting when i was 16 and taught myself everything i know just by getting out there and doing it.
this is the first year since then that i haven't killed at east 3 deer, in fact i didn't kill a single deer. I let several deer walk this year as they were either small does or button bucks. i did use one of my deer tags when i took my 14 year old niece hunting and she shot her first doe but that was it.
now the change that i have began to encounter is both a good and a bad change i guess, I find that i enjoy hunting smaller game, like ducks and squirrel, more than i do deer. it just seems a tad weird that im almost reverting just being happy hunting rather than to be going for "the big one" or shooting any animal that was in season like i did in previous years, i have been deer hunting a half dozen times since i got home for the semester but ive hunted everyday so far (except sundays) since the 15th.
has anyone else encountered such a change? i still love being in the field and seeing the deer, but i am beginning to think that my camera is just as important as my rifle.
this is the first year since then that i haven't killed at east 3 deer, in fact i didn't kill a single deer. I let several deer walk this year as they were either small does or button bucks. i did use one of my deer tags when i took my 14 year old niece hunting and she shot her first doe but that was it.
now the change that i have began to encounter is both a good and a bad change i guess, I find that i enjoy hunting smaller game, like ducks and squirrel, more than i do deer. it just seems a tad weird that im almost reverting just being happy hunting rather than to be going for "the big one" or shooting any animal that was in season like i did in previous years, i have been deer hunting a half dozen times since i got home for the semester but ive hunted everyday so far (except sundays) since the 15th.
has anyone else encountered such a change? i still love being in the field and seeing the deer, but i am beginning to think that my camera is just as important as my rifle.