Sunday, September 20, 2009

PULLING THE TRIGGER IS NOT THE BEST PART OF HUNTING

If you are new to hunting, please read this blog. You will be on your way to being a great hunter. Great hunters have spirituality within themselves to appreciate and be thankful for all of the gifts given to us by The Great Spirit.

As a young hunter, no matter what you are hunting, you can’t wait until you get an opportunity to shoot your rifle, your bow, or your shotgun at your quarry. That is the ultimate goal of hunting…the harvesting of a game animal. The fact is, you will not reach that goal every time you go hunting. But, even if you do not bring home any game, your spiritual game bag will be full EVERY time by appreciating some of the following gifts that make hunting such a wonderful passion to enjoy.

The excitement of waking up early in the morning
The smell of breakfast being cooked
The anticipation to get to your hunt location during the hike to your special place
The feel of the breeze on your face and determining the direction it is coming from
The comradeship you share with other hunters
Sitting in the early morning darkness
Looking high above and gazing at the moon and stars
Hearing the woods come alive when the birds begin to sing and the squirrels begin rustling about in the leaves looking for nuts
Listening to the wind as it moves through the colorful leaves of an autumn day
Listening to the rustle of leaves as the breeze moves them across the ground
Listening to a nearby stream
Being amongst various kinds of trees all living together peacefully
Feeling a closeness to The Great Spirit you can never achieve elsewhere
Seeing the sun rise and the magnificent colors reflected on the horizon
A time to be thankful to have a place to hunt

These are but a few gifts we receive every time we head out in pursuit of wild game. There will be days hunting a field we won’t have an opportunity to pull the trigger or let an arrow fly, but we will still come home with an abundance of gifts only hunters get to enjoy.

Copyright © 2009 Craig Cribbs

2 comments:

  1. I have always been drawn by the aspect of self reliance and the connection I feel with god when I participate in his natural world. I believe that the "shot" is so exciting because it is the moment of success. That point in time when all you have done pays off and you know that your dinner table will have meat on it and you can feel like a man. Yeah I said it and it sounds a little sexest but I believe that we have to hide our testoterone driven instincts in the polite society so much that it is nice to do something hard (kill another living creature) and provide for the ones we love.

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  2. By the way I like the way your blog is headed, you should check out the Outdoors Bloggers Summit. tons of outdoor blogs there to check out. I have a link on my blog to get you there. tell them I sent you and join up, it will increase your readership

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