Great story posted by Texas Fish & Game by Ted Nugent: A hunting buddy of mine doesn’t bowhunt, he likes his old 30-30 for his backstrap dreams. Another friend prefers his great grandpa’s buckhorn-sighted Kentucky flintlock squirrel rifle for aim small miss small deer during the muzzleloading season.
A bunch of my US Marine Corp sniper brothers live to kill elk at over 1000 yards each fall with their Barrett 50s. They’re something else.
A classic bowyer artisan I know wouldn’t think of drawing a compound bow instead of his handmade yew wood English longbow and hunting with his hand cut natural turkey feather fletched cedar arrows.
A whole bunch of die-hard deer hunters join me each year with their handguns to have pistolero fun and get backstraps and share campfires.
I’ve been hunting deer for more than 60 years, and I’ve seen it all, done it all, enjoyed it all, and shared it all. And it is all good.
Being the omnivorous consumer of the written word on hunting, I try to read every publication that has anything to do with hunting in every imaginable way, shape, form, and methodology.
I often come across letters to the editors in some of these publications by certain weirdo’s that piss and moan about others’ choices of hunting styles and methods, and it never ceases to amaze and confuse me that such doofuses actually exist. Continue reading at Texas Fish & Game….
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