Hunting and Other stuff

A couple of weekends ago i got to go hunting! I was actually very excited to do it, i knew i wasn't going to kill anything so i really didnt have a problem with it. plus i am here to experience and see other people lives and people hunt so i had to give it a try and not preach my beliefs on them. ok so i got picked up at like 7.30 and we were in the forest at 8. It was -2 degres that morning, so it was very very cold. So i have never been hunting before so i didnt know what to expect, so let me explain how hunting works (here). so there is a group of people who are in the forest and with the guns waiting for an animal to come, but then there is also another group of people that walk with the dogs, so they let the dogs go in the forest and the dogs sniff and find tracks or animals, then they start barking and the goal of the dogs is to keep the animals in one spot without touching them so its easier to shot i guess. i was in the sitting group at first. so we walked in the forest and different people were stationed at different places. i was on some rocks in the shade. and then you sit perfectly still and listen to hear like the dogs barking and looking for moose and other animals, we sat for like 2 hours and it was really really cold! my feet felt like they were in ice almost frozen buckets of water but i will stop complaining. so then after 2 hours we went back to the meeting spot and fikaed, then we went out agian. this time was better, the sun was coming out so it was warmer and i actually saw some animals. we heard a dog bark then we saw some deer, but one was running and like didnt notice us so it came super close, froze stared me in the eye and ran away, it was beautiful! and we saw a baby deer too. then we went back and ate lunch, then i went with the dogs. we walked and walked and walked back and forth following a dog. it was pretty funny. but i saw a MOOSE!! it was so cool, the main hunter guy was like "freeze, look an elk" i was excited! but we walked for like a good 5 miles i would say. and we saw a wild boar that one of the other hunters shot, then we walked some more and then we saw a baby deer that someone else shot. then i saw it actually get like gutted! it was so nasty, but i kind of like disecting and stuff so it was actually pretty cool! i think i will save you the pics here, i have them on facebook. then we went back and were done hunting for the day. so i hung out at the house and helped make dinner for all the other hunters. oh we were hunting on a farm, so after 2 cows got loose and we had to go like heard them, and it was the funniest thing i have ever seen! they drove a volvo on to the field and were chasing around this cow in a car, so funny! but after that we had dinner and then i went home. it was a really fun day, and i might go again sometime with juliana hopefully though.