I whitetail deer hunt, consider it part of my total yearly meat and depend on it. I have hunted the deer for 40 years from Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, back to Bama now and my reason's for doing so have changed drastically thru those 40 years. I now fill most of my time as the manager of every deer hunting property that my closest hunting friends[5] and I take on. We stay in our home state of Alabama to lease our hunting grounds and though we may move to another lease we stay together as a group of hunters who share most of the same value's when it comes to hunting deer. Long ago we found that as a tight group we could afford most any reasonable size deer lease we wanted.
I myself will for the 1st time try my hand at using a crossbow to deer hunt. I've always enjoyed the extremely long gun season's of the southeast and met many bow hunters I found truly in love with their experience with bow's of every kind. My reason's are very simply to get a jump on our deer season by legally deer hunting 30 day's prior to ever hearing the 1st gun shot go off and the fact that our oldest and largest bucks turn into ghost shortly after the 1st gunshot rings out.
The job of manager is a 12 month commitment that drives most humans into the ground with it's ever changing obstacles, dangers and pure work involved. I myself find overwhelmed often but determined to do better. With my physical limitation, I sometime think it's what keeps me alive and partially sane because I love it so very much and the rewards I receive from all my labor. Even when missing large portion's of my responsible duties when I can't drive to work on the lease, due to seizures. I truly think it gives me purpose to carry on.