It's About the Experience!

It’s about the experience. There is something about waking up at 2:30am to prepare for the day’s hunt. Whether you are waking up early to load your truck, make a drive, then sneak into your stand undetected or walk a mile through flooded timber, the adrenaline begins to pump as soon as the alarm rings. This is a much different experience

than if the alarm was waking you up for work. Why is that? My answer to this question is because of the unknown. When you wake up for a hunt, you have no idea what you are going to experience that day. It could be the day that the largest buck of your life gives you the perfect shot, or it could be the day when you knock down your first banded waterfowl. The unknown excites us as hunters to continue to do what we love.

The memories you create hunting are ones you’ll never forget. These are the stories you share with your family and friends or the hunter you just met at your local sporting goods store. You’ll always remember that Thanksgiving morning when you sat in your stand for thirty minutes and shot one of the biggest bucks of your life. You’ll also remember the day you fell in the lake, filled your waders with water, and sat through freezing temperatures just to knock down a single duck. Was sitting in the blind, without a heater in subfreezing temperatures, just to see a doe with her fawns and a couple of fork horns worth it? You betcha. Creating memories like these, whether exciting or unpleasant, is what hunting is about.

These life time memories open the door to an exclusive community: the hunting family. Whether you are a big game, small game, or waterfowl hunter, you’ve shared similar experiences with hunters across the world. As you share your memories with other hunters, you get the opportunity to share tips of what has helped you be

successful and what has not. Likewise, it presents the opportunity to learn from others experiences so that you may become a more successful hunter. There is always something new you can learn from another hunter.

Most importantly, hunting allows us to enjoy what God has created for us. Job 12:7-10 states, "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.” When we hunt, we are blessed to experience an abundance of God’s creations. From the sunrise, to the animals, to the ground we walk on, God’s hand created it all. It just takes a few seconds to stop and truly think about what God has created for us to enjoy. Regardless of where you hunt, the experience wouldn’t be possible without God’s creations. Hunting is more than a sport, it’s a lifelong experience.

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