Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do you hunt to make memories?

I don't recall ever hunting to make memories, but some of my best and most cherished memories are from hunting.

And how has that been working out?
Any pics to share?

Aaaaaaannnnd....ignore.

Dont think I’ve ever seen a kill pic posted by mannlicher. Almost like getting Elkslayer to post a pic.

The holy grail in other words.

I have an excellent memory and mannlicher has made no dead animal memories in my mind.

Fireball2: "I Hunt - therefore I am"!
Hunting is one of the top three things in my life - first is loving my family and second is providing for my family - I've accomplished those two things and will keep at them.
I will be Hunting til the day I die - God willing.
I will say this of all the Hunts, and all the trophies and all of the amazing experiences I've had Hunting, and of all the friends I have made who I Hunt with - the beauty of the places I have Hunted Big Game and Varmints (Alberta, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Texas and some places in between I've forgotten) in is what I remember most vividly and most often!
I guess I could just go somewhere and walk around in the foothills, woods, prairies, rain forests and river bottoms and just enjoy that - and I have - a million times.
But the "Hunt" is ingrained in my psyche and my life style to such an extent it sometimes concerns me?
I am a Hunter - and I am proud of that.
But some of my most enjoyable and memorable Hunts have me bringing no game or Varmints to bag at all.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Billy is pretty badazz with a 8mm mauser I bet.
Other than that ..
"Pics or it never happened" bytch........

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Nailed it.

I remember the events, the places, the weather, the people with, the scenery, way more than the kills.

isnt it time to forgive and forget and cut the camper some slack? God’s grace and alla that?

Started hunting with a pellet gun. Stepped up to a .410 before I was a teenager. Then my Uncle gave me a minigun. For me it’s more about the thrill rather than the food. I will admit that I do love me some fried quail.

Nope.....
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Once we moved to the west, I began teaching myself to hunt and it has been very important to me ever since. Except for a few hunts with dear friends early on, for the past 50 or so years I have been a solo hunter - mostly in the NF mountains and big high deserts of the southwest. I hunt to find and identify game that we will eat and to kill it as quickly and humanely s possible - and to get rid of varmints. There are only one or two photos of me and/or killed game. Many wonderful memories have ensued.

Good thing your not Shaman Slummy. I will post my apologies the Shaman now sorry but it was to good to pass up

A lot of the stuff from 'ago' that is etched into my brain is/was from hunting......

but that's not 'why' I was in the woods..................

A memory was 'created' this morning.... sitting in a wood line with my BIL, watching a pasture, Big gobbler, a jake, 4ish hens, easing our way. Lead hen starts walking with a purpose, straight for us.... beeline to right in front about 4 yards, stops and eyeballs us, then putts herself away..............

I like gravity on squirrels and dove.

I hunt to spend time with my friends and my son. Memories is are part of the deal.

Nothing says “bear meat” like a 2 day bath. Lmao

The best part of the shift from making meat to making memories, is you get to sleep in....

I have.