These are my Lifetime statistics for The Hunter so far. Note the total time played:
Time Hunting 16 Hours 33 Minutes 53 Seconds
Distance Travelled 27.93 miles (44.95 km)
Shots Fired 66
Shots Hit 46
Hit Accuracy 69.7%
Favoured Weapon .243 Win Bolt Action Rifle
Species Tracked Spotted Harvested
Mule Deer 22 35 21
Whitetail 3 7 5
Turkey 2 1 2
Elk 3 13 3
…this is now officially a sickness 
I’ve played this game pretty much at the exclusion of everything else. Eve Online is in maintenance mode as my shuttle industry chugs away and other blueprints and large skills keep training. I should be doing missions…but I’d rather hunt deer and elk. W…T….F!?
The awesome content that CoH players are creating is going to have to wait as I pick up deer poop to see how warm it is. Don’t worry….it’s for tracking only and I wash my hands before I blog about it.
I haven’t played FreeRealms, FO3 or farmed pages in LOTRO all because I want go grab my .357 magnum and bag me a turkey. Seriously…what is wrong with me? 
(…of note, the second turkey I “bagged” was the smallest thing I’ve ever seen and weighed a hearty 10lbs…)
I’m sorry to you, dear reader, as I sit in this tree stand making sure that I’m downwind from a recent call I picked up on my little HunterMate doo-hicky…I know you are all quietly suffering from that lack of MMO-ness that you expect from this blog. Take comfort in the fact that at least I’ll have lots of variety at the dinner table . Also, you should be proud that I’d still representing (/fist pump) over at the GWJ website in their contest. As of now, looks like I’m in the running for 1st place in two categories:
GWJ Free-for-All Tournament – 4/22-4/27
Current Standings
Mule Buck
Rack Size
1. darrenl – 185 2/8
2. Gaald – 182 5/8
3. Jalertic – 182 2/8
4. OrgunUK – 181 (time)
5. Rezzy – 181
6. Vega – 178 3/8
7. bennard – 176 5/8
8. Montalban – 173 1/8
9. Jerrak – 171 7/8
10. docvego – 169 6/8
11. TempestBlayze – 147 1/8
12. sithload – 142 1/8
13. Desram – 132 1/8
14. Hemidal – 91 5/8
15. Stengah – 82 2/8
16. camnipotent – 78
17. Ravenlock – 65 3/8
18. docvego – 60 4/8
19. rabbit – 56 6/8Whitetail Buck
Weight
1. darrenl – 220.2 lbs
2. docvego – 217.8 lbs
3. camnipotent – 217.3 lbs
4. MisterStatic – 204.8 lbs
5. Stengah – 202.8 lbs
6. bennard – 179.3 lbs
7. Desram – 175.7 lbs
8. Jerrak – 171.3 lbs
9. Montalban – 169.2 lbs
10. Gaald – 163.9 lbs
11. Certis – 159.9 lbs
12. Vega – 158.9 lbs
13. rabbit – 144.4 lbs
Don’t worry though. I’m hoping that this is just a fad and that I will be back to my normal, “non-violent-to-digital-animals” self. Unless…of course…they come up with a baby seal clubbing game.
/fear
D out.
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April 27th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Ummm, baby seal clubbing game request completed ….
http://www.dr.dk/spil/dolph/popup.html
April 27th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I see you still can’t pick on pixels your OWN size, eh?
What’s next? Hunting after Pickachu and friends? WHY man, WHY?
Beau
PS: Is that how you spell Pickachu?
April 27th, 2009 at 10:02 am
*Ethically* clubbing baby seals.
Congrats on winning the GWJ tournament! I thought I had a shot at your rack size title last night, but I came in at 177 7/8. It’s cool that you don’t know the rack size until you finish your hunt and check your stats back on the web site. I was bouncing with eagerness to see if my buck had a shot at the title, but alas, it was only good enough for 7th. I hope they have another tournament!
Yeah, I have no interest in playing anything else at the moment either. LoTRO is sitting and waiting, my regular TF2 servers are getting ignored…I’m hooked. I wonder if we’re going to get anyone else interested? I know some people are probably saying “A hunting game? Man, that’s SO not me,” but that’s exactly what I was saying until the GWJ guys talked it up so much that I had to try it. Who can pass up free?
April 27th, 2009 at 10:12 am
I’m suddenly and unresistingly drawn to remember the late great Richard Pryor describe hunting…
*crunch*
*crunch*
shhh, stand in my foot prints, I know what I’m doing…
in my foot prints, not on my feet…
*crunch*
*crunch*
right, there is it, see how beautiful it is… right hand me the rifle.
*crunch*
what rifle?
*crunch*
the rifle I handed you at the car.
I didn’t know you wanted me to carry no rifle.
well, if you ain’t got a rifle, we’re in big trouble.
Why’s that, it’s only a deer.
forget the deer, there’s a bear stood right behind you.
Oh sh*t. Which way you running?
what difference does it make?
because I don’t want to run over your slow a$$.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:40 am
[...] not the only one completely sucked in by The Hunter. Darren over at Common Sense Gamer can’t play anything else either, logging 16 hours of play time over the weekend. I’m not much better. Here are my [...]
April 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Check out the size of Darren’s rack!
April 27th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
…Wil….I’m going to pretend that comment is within the context of the game.
/adjusts man-bra
April 28th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Less shooting poor, defenseless, virtual animals and more reviewing FreeRealms please! It’s supposed to be out and so far I’ve heard from two different bloggers. One was negative (which I sort of expected from that blogger) and the other was positive (again, expected from that blogger).
What’s your take?
You know my son is a gaming addict when I start saying to him,”Hey bud, there is a game coming out tomorrow…” and he quickly interrupts me with, “Can we buy it?”.
January 9th, 2010 at 3:58 am
I like your site. I’m looking forward to more visits here. Thanks!