Wow! Being a gunwriter is getting to be more and more like being a cop, huh? You're a public figure held to an artificially high standard of abilities and pilloried when revealed as human or your equipment fails to perform like a magazine ad.

If you've never made a bad shot or missed entirely, you've not been hunting or shooting much...or are extraordinarily lucky.

I've taken deer several times that have been wounded by other hunters. How many of those guys do you think told their friends about the one that dropped then ran away when they were halfway out of the stand?

Takes an honest man to admit it in nationwide print. Perhaps so that others may learn?

BTW, any caliber the state game department deems legal is suitable. We all have the right to pay our money and take our choice.

We need to ensure that remains the norm and that we are not all legislated into having but one .30-'06 and 10 rounds of 180 grain softpoints per year issued to us at the state store.

Or maybe we'll simply be told that hunting is wrong and no longer allowed.

Let's all hang together, boys and girls.

�When in doubt, I whip it out.� Uncle Ted
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