Why do you hunt dangerous game?

I dont think you can explain why you hunt dangerous game to even another hunter, who has no desire, or has not had the oppertunity to hunt dangerous game! I believe it to be imposible to explain it to a non-hunter, or anti-hunting person. It sinply does not compute, with them!

IMO, for what it's worth, is that man has pitted his brain power against the brawn of dangerous animals as long as people have been in existance! Man is a surviver, and the reason man has control of the world, as much as he does is because of that need to apply brain over brawn! In other words, it is in man's nature to take on what ever he percieves as a barrier to his progress, be it animal or dangerous terrain.

For myself, I find that I'm a natural born risk taker, and it shows when one delves into my activitives over my fairly long life time! I have hunted most things, at one time or another, but only the animals that can bite back really interest me. I consider an animal dangerous only when you get in close, where if you make a mistake, things could very well get you killed. Anyone can sit off at 200 yds, and snipe any animal without risk, however no animal is dangerous to an armed hunter at 200 yds. I don't see the point.

This is like drugs to me, and the high it gives me is addictive. The confronting of an animal that your firearm doesn't give you all that much of an advantage, is where it is , IMO!
I guess I'm an adrenaline junky, and nothing gives me a fix like getting into the weeds with a big buffalo, or brown bear, when both you, and he knows what the outcome will likely be, depending on which of you makes the first mistake!

Anyone, who has been there, will tell you, everything goes, suddenly, into SLOW MOTION, and there will never a time in your life where you are more aware of your own mortality, but strangely not scared! That fear factor changes once things are concluded, however!

No prairie dog hunt will give you that BRASS IN THE MOUTH taste you get from being in close to an animal that can, not only kill you, but would be quite happy to do just that!
IMO there is no activity that compares!