[Terriergal]

It is better to have it come after you. Trust me. LOL

You don't want any of those aggressive bossy beavers-lib beavers though...

[skepsel]

LOL! Well I was being silly while thumbing through "Meditations on Hunting", by Ortega y Gassett for something pithy.
Didn't come across anything that condenses well so in a nut shell I would say there are probably as many reasons to hunt and fish as there are hunters and fisherman; food on the table, communing with nature, getting back to our primeval hunter natures, the thrill of the stalk, pride in one's fieldcraft.
I mostly fish these days and pull triggers at the range, but the thrill of the stalk was what I liked.
The feeling of a sucessful ambush or of spotting and breaking the ambush (only in training, I've never "seen the elephant") is very much like that in hunting, all one's senses at the highest pitch, everything one sees and hears takes on a crystalline clarity, heart thudding in the chest, and all is combined with a lethal clarity and focus.
There isn't much else like it. Perhaps it is primitive, but so what? The pursiut of happiness is for you or me to determine not Mrs. Grundy, as long as we aren't harming her.

skepsel

[MacDorcha]

passive-aggresive beaver is good enough for me... wait, all beaver is passive-aggressive ;)