10/28/2026
Back at it!
After more heartbreak, a few really tough hunts, family activities, work obligations and just lack of give a crap I’m back in the blind.
Why is it we get tested so frequently?
Patience, motivation, and drive has all been tested this season.
It’s so easy just to give up, drive to the grocery store buy meat and call it done.
So why do we do it?
Mostly because meat in the grocery store is just not for us. We’d much rather be a part in the harvest and have a much clearer idea of where it came from.
Those tube ground beef’s that I believe come in a 10 pound meat tube, handy and mostly affordable, however how many different cattle are in those 😬. Have I used them? Yes. Did I get ill? No. But that was before we understood the value, pride and skill it takes to do this part.
Anyone whoever feels bad for the animals we hunt, just know we absolutely had to work for it. You can’t just put out corn (if allowed in your area) , walk in and take anything you want. Nope doesn’t work that way. These creatures are freaking smart. .
You have to understand, wind, scent, sound, vision, thermals, travel corridors, what time of the year it, what they do in certain weather, what their current motivation is, and even it moon phase! 🤯
So easy? Nope
Then that’s just part of it. Practice your bow or whatever method you choose. Over and over and over some more. In the low light, sitting, standing, leaning, sometimes on the odd side of a tree, hanging from a tree (if you saddle hunt like my boys), it’s all so much at times.
So yeah don’t tell me I’m in the wrong for harvesting helpless creatures.
Why is this sitting with me so hard today you might ask? Well at a training thing today with my job an instructor was upset with me for even trying. They said how many animals have you k***ed this week? I said well my freezers nearly empty so not enough. Just didn’t set well with me. They are not vegan btw just someone that doesn’t know what they are eating.
No hate from me. I’ll educate my friends and new best friends any chance I can
Heather 🫶