Calls from the wilderness....... What drives you!

[MJB]

For me one is elk bugling all night in elk camp the night before you fuck them up!




Or they do it to you

 

[GUNDOGLOVER49]

Sitting around a well stoked campfire listening to the night forest come alive. listen, is that a wolf? what was that noise just outside camp, could it ba a Mt. lion drawn to the fish we just cooked over the campfire.

 

[MJB]

The moan from a bear in his last breath........ chilling

 

[HATCHET1]

The coo from a dove the evening before the opener!!! nothing better!

 

[ilovesprig]

Gobbles at daybreak, whistling swings cupped and committed, the cackle of a rooster flushing…Love it

 

[GUNDOGLOVER49]

The coo from a dove the evening before the opener!!! nothing better!

the effects of the Rona are wearing off, your thinking normal now.

 

[BOWUNTR]

Lying in a warm, dry sleeping bag inside a small tent when it's sh!thouse weather outside... knowing that the weather is clearing and it's gonna be a beautiful day tomorrow with deer everywhere. Ed F

 

[RKE]

Ditto on the campfire GUNDOGLOVER49. Also, the flush of a covey of quail from all around your feet.

 

[GUNDOGLOVER49]

I sure wish Larry would come back. He would go on for volumes about what drives him.

 

[Lungpopper]

The sunrise. Absolutely love watching the sun come up.

 

[longbowhunter2]

sitting under a large pine tree and it's day break , and all the animals , birds, squirrels, turkeys, start calling. as the forest wakes up.

 

[Hunter527]

Being in the duck blind just before shoot time, hearing wings whistle and trying to spot the first groups passing over. Also, listening to coyotes from my sleeping bag never gets old, especially if they’re real close.

 

[Hunter527]

Not a call from the wilderness, but the thread reminded me of this. One morning in D14, my Dad and I were hiking up a fire road at first light and the National Anthem started playing below on highway 38 for a race. My dad and I stopped and removed our hats. Listening to it in the quiet of the mountains was incredible. That was a real special moment for my dad and I.

 

[Creeping Death]

The got damn woodpeckers, yup...those bastards are bitchen. Hard headed sumbitches.

 

[WaterDawg]

For me one is elk bugling all night in elk camp the night before you fuck them up!




Or they do it to you

So many things. When evening shade finally overtakes the desert heat, meeting up with buddies in the IV the day before dove opener, bass crashing on bait fish at dawn, the loud ZZZZZ of a jig strike when you’re just about to fall asleep on the stern.

 

[garlicsalt]

The Essence of two=stroke oil burning in the wee hours of the morning on the south end.

 

[ilovesprig]

Pretty cool sound at sundown in the IV.

 

[Cali Ridge Runner]

Open Gates

 

[Lifesaver832]

The silouette of the Sutter Buttes from the rice fields at sunrise. The commotion of the grind getting up. The excitement of whistling wings at daybreak. The horn at San Jacinto. Cooing doves at shooting time on opening day when you can barely see them. Cackling of a flushed rooster. Gobble after scratching the slate. The sound of the waves crashing against the side of the boat. Most importantly, the silence of the outdoors when I'm just sitting in the blind before the hunt or after the action has cooled off. So many things keep me getting out there and trying new things.

 

[The joel]

For whatever dumb reason wanting to know what’s on the other side of the next ridge.