Aug 27, 2026 · 19 min · 20 segments
This year, I’m changing the way I deer hunt. After years of chasing mature bucks, scouting, running cameras, trying new gear, and constantly looking for the next piece of information, I’ve realized…
I just, as I get older, I just like think more about, like, happiness and what God would want me to be doing right now.
[laughs] And the more I think about that, the more I think about how I feel like for a lot of years I was deer hunting for the wrong reasons.
Um, I mean, it ran through my mind from time to time, not from time to time, a lot, like, "I wanna be the best deer hunter." Like, I want to be the best deer hunter, like, a- for my ego.
Then it got to the point where like I, I wanna kill multiple big bucks every year.
And then you just realize as you become a better hunter that the goalpo- the, the, the goal just keeps getting pushed back.
Um, and your satisfaction of what kind of deer hunter you are kinda never satisfies what you, what your, your goal is.
You wanna sit here with me? [laughs] So that's what's changed for me this season, is like I just...
I, I've been thinking about, like, what in life actually makes me happy, and it's never really been pursuing big giant bucks.
And like some- I know some people don't understand that, that, "Hey, um, why would you go out and just try to harvest deer or fill tags or..." Uh, you know, I, I don't know, I don't know what it is about me, but, like, it's almost kind of ingrained in me too.
I just, as I get older, I just like think more about, like, happiness and what God would want me to be doing right now.
[laughs] And the more I think about that, the more I think about how I feel like for a lot of years I was deer hunting for the wrong reasons.
Um, I mean, it ran through my mind from time to time, not from time to time, a lot, like, "I wanna be the best deer hunter." Like, I want to be the best deer hunter, like, a- for my ego.
Then it got to the point where like I, I wanna kill multiple big bucks every year.
And then you just realize as you become a better hunter that the goalpo- the, the, the goal just keeps getting pushed back.
Um, and your satisfaction of what kind of deer hunter you are kinda never satisfies what you, what your, your goal is.
You wanna sit here with me? [laughs] So that's what's changed for me this season, is like I just...
I, I've been thinking about, like, what in life actually makes me happy, and it's never really been pursuing big giant bucks.
And like some- I know some people don't understand that, that, "Hey, um, why would you go out and just try to harvest deer or fill tags or..." Uh, you know, I, I don't know, I don't know what it is about me, but, like, it's almost kind of ingrained in me too.
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