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Teach Them Young, Teach Them Often


Yesterday I was asked to be on a discussion panel for a very popular news website discussing the importance of teaching young children about guns. After thinking long and hard and smelling a set-up, I turned them down. But the topic of that discussion got me thinking more and more about why I even before I was a father, I…

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Any Hunt With Your Kids Is A Successful Hunt


With the end of all of the Illinois deer seasons wrapping up yesterday, I spend a minute and reflect over what was accomplished threw the whole season.  I look back at the summer and remember setting several goals for myself just for deer hunting.  They ranged from breaking in a couple longbows I built the year before with their first…

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The Religion of Hunting


“Would you shoot a 180″ 3 year buck?  You would!!!  Well that is just wrong and you are going to ruin hunting.”  That just sounds silly to me, but the sad thing is, conversations just like that go on every day all over the web. Why would someone say something like that?  Well I think one part of it is…

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