11/15/2025
So this post comes with great feelings, feelings that I never thought that I would have again as just earlier this year I had posted about getting outing of hunting as I had lost my passion after moving back to Michigan almo two years ago.
I started hunting again last year with a bow at my brothers property because it was easy and I didn’t have to do anything I didn’t feel the chase, drive, heart pumping action nor the sadness that comes when you end the life of a animal the Lord put on this planet for us to consume.
This year comes along and it’s the same way. Go out with my bow don’t have to try just go sit in a tree. My best friend and also partner in the hunting community would tell me it’s still there you just have to find it. I would always deny him and say I just don’t care anymore about it, I don’t feel it. He then told me to go to state land and get some cams out and scout I’m like yeah whatever, I’ll just do it to appease him. So I did. I went out scouted on my phone and started bouncing pins back and forth with him.
Slowly I’m starting to feel it again, as daytime photos of bucks and does are showing up from state land that I scouted and put the work into along with seeing these bucks on hoof during daylight my spirits are lifting higher.
Thursday I was talking to Anthony and he asked if I was gun hunting said probably not don’t own a gun anymore, he said I’ll ask some buddies and see if they will let you borrow one. That night I went and bought a 450 Bushmaster from the store and got the scope put on in that night. At this point I text Anthony with extremely high spirits and actually for the first time in a long time i was excited. Friday I went and sighted my gun in and did a little more scouting trying to figure out where I was hunting opening morning.
I settled on a place that in the years past I have scouted multiple times put multiple cameras out and figured this spot will be good. I didn’t get discouraged at all and went in with the orange army everywhere and was able to harvest my first gun deer.
The emotions after the harvest had been on a different level. A level that I truly have never felt before. For me this wasn’t about chasing a monster it was about letting go of monsters that held me down for the past few years. After fully placing my faith in the Lord life is truly turning around.
Through Christ all things are possible.
P.S. I wish you could watch the video and see the excitement.
