Why men go hunting and why it should still be a holiday.

This might get me and a lot of men in trouble, but it just might give some information to a woman into why men are like they are. 

Have you ever wondered why a man goes and sits in a tree for a week in freezing cold weather?  Sometimes it even rains and freezes ice on the man while sitting in a tree.  Now there are men who just have more sophistication (that really means more money to burn) and sit in one of those nice boxes on top of a tower with a heater and windows to block the cold wind.   There are also those with less sophistication (money) who sit in a 55-gallon metal drum sitting on top of a tripod about 15 feet in the air.  Now I will have to tell you that barrel is cold, but it does stop the wind.  The other bad thing is you have to stick your head out of the barrel where it is windy and cold to shoot.  Of course, there is a seat in the barrel so you can at least relax a little but there is NO leg room in there and it is not made for tall or fat folks like ME. 

Now there are men who actually hire/pay someone to take them up into the mountains on horseback where it is cold and windy and miserable by most folk's standards to hunt deer or elk. If you are more sophisticated (more money) moose.  There on that mountain, you have paid more money to be more miserable and more sophisticated.   

Well with all this said let’s examine the why of this sport. 

1. Men are not like women – does that resonate with anyone?   

1. Men dip, chew and scratch and women don’t like any of it normally.

2. Men pass gas (fart), tell off color jokes. 

2. Believe it or not it is fun and refreshing to be outdoors. 

3. I personally would rather take the pictures, but it is a thrill to hunt and kill just like our ancestors did years ago.  Just to make it clear it is not that I don’t want to shoot the animal, but I don’t want to clean it and carry it and I really don’t like to eat it unless you are like Larry Travis or Rich Kanaly or Rich Jefferies who have the meat made into sausage or jerky. 

4. Now there is one reason which is the motivation for this article and that is men need to get away from the women. 

Let me explain why men need to get away from the women.  First, if you stay home, they are going to tell you to do something.  Second, if they don’t tell you to do something, they are going to make you feel guilty for not doing something.  Third, if you don’t feel guilty and they are DOING while you are sitting you should feel guilty and therefore you are guilty.  So, the number 1 reason for sitting in the cold and freezing weather is to get away from the women. 

 So, what do you learn in the Osage? 

1. Men like to relax and not get in trouble for it. 

2. Hunting allows men to do what men do best, sit, spit, tell stories, pass gas etc. 

3. Not 100%, but women don’t hunt. 

Thanks for your time, 

Gary

gary.olson@finaciti.com