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The Rack Report Blog Contributors - Russell Graves

Russell Graves - Believes whitetails shouldn't be photographed in the back of a truck with their tongue hanging out.
Location - Texas

The Rack Report Blog Contributors - Brian Strickland

Brian Strickland - Has 369,518 acres of land that you can hunt on. Call him at (555) 281-HUNT.
Location - Colorado

The Rack Report Blog Contributors - Tony Hansen

Tony Hansen - Is pretty confident Michigan will release at least 300,000 archers into the woods this fall.
Location - Michigan

The Rack Report Blog Contributors - Jake Fagan

Jake Fagan - He's really just here to hang out, so don't mind him.
Location - Georgia

The Rack Report Blog Contributors - Will Brantley

Will Brantley - Loves hunting in a dorag because it makes him look Ramboish. Some may call it Little Man Syndrome.
Location - Tennessee

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Crazy Love

Hunting whitetails for me is a year around affair. In fact, if you were to ask my wife if I've ever had a love affair outside of our 13 years of matrimony, she would nod and say unequivocally, "bowhunting whitetails!" Like many of you, I eat, sleep, breath and dream whitetails. Regardless of whether it's during the heat of summer, when just thinking about going outside makes you sweat, or the peak of winter when the mercury has bottomed-out and snow is measured in feet instead of inches, I'm thinking about bowhunting whitetails. On more than one occasion my wife has given me a quick nudge because my eyes were glazed over only to find out that I was thinking about a morning on stand last November. I guess you could say it's a crazy love affair, and I'm sure many of you guys have also been bitten by the same bug.

You would think for a guy living in Colorado bugling bull elk, fuzzy-horned mulies and eye-catching pronghorns would be my passion. Although each one of these critters get my undivided attention for a few weeks every fall, my season really begins and ends with whitetails.

It would be cool to hear from some of you guys about this too. Let us know if you're as passionate about chasing whitetail bucks as we on the Realtree Rack Report are, and why. Is it the spectacular racks they carry, their wise and weary ways, or just sitting in a stand on an early November morning taking everything in? I can tell you one thing--if you're driving by a wood lot and bring your truck to a crawl so you can rubber neck to see if a whitetail is skirting its edge, then I would say you've been bitten by the love bug too, the "crazy love" bug!

-Brian Strickland
From the Wild West

Published by The Whitetail Team on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 4:17 PM.

Comments:

Your right on Brian! I can't get enough time in the whitetail woods in the fall. I bet there's not a week goes by that I don't think about my time in the woods last year or what I have planned for this year to.

# posted by Stan : July 17, 2008 10:43 AM

"Bow Hunting Whitetails," there is truly nothing like it. Obsession is the term that comes to my mind when talking about bowhunters. Whether we are in season or out the hunt is always on. New strategies are constantly being developed. I liked how you described it as a passion, because that's exactly what it is. When you can read and article about huntng and you heart already starts pumping, what else can it be but an obsession or passion. I enjoyed your thought about rubbernecking and looking for deer. I drive 40 minutes to work and I'm always looking into the woods to see if anything is walking the edges. I also look for the perfect spot to pitch a worm whenever I drive past a pond. Is that a problem?

# posted by MJ13 : July 18, 2008 5:45 AM