Re-entering society after hunting

[cal30_sniper]

Yes to all of this. For me there’s also a compounding effect coming back to the city. At first, you come out of the backcountry into some little town to grab gas and a bite to eat or a cup of coffee and it still feels quaint and comfortable, the people usually seem bearable, etc. That kind of setting usually ends up giving me a strong sense of nostalgia for the environment and people I grew up around.

Then a few short hours later you’re hit with billboards, traffic, road rage, junk music on the radio, homelessness, box stores, and the general sharp unpleasantness of modern society. That’s always the biggest shock to me.

 

[justinspicher]

I’ve never experienced this hunting, but definitely after a deployment.

I don’t do a lot of back country hunting, I live in a small town butted up to tons of NF so I’m out and about quite a bit. I don’t talk to most folks to start with so I don’t have to deal with them in the first place.

 

[hunt1up]

It has always been a problem for me. Once you're hunting for a couple days, reality sort of shifts to "this is what I do now." It's worst when I go somewhere remote, but it even happens to me when I deer hunt here in the Midwest. I took off a few days and deer hunted 5 days straight last week, all day, 5 days in a row. I'll get so immersed in it that the first day back at work is horrible. People irritate me quickly and I'm generally just foggy and disinterested with the task at hand.