My friend Tony Atwill did a story for Sports Afield maybe 25 years ago, profiling how several huge-antlered whitetails were taken, including the rifle (or bow), ammo, scope, clothing, scents and any other accessories the hunter used.

Tony has a sense of humor, and it showed in what could have been a boring article when he listed the "scent" used by one of the hunters, a woman from Texas, as "Chanel No. 5." She also didn't wear any camo into the blind, in fact the photo of her with her buck looked like she was ready for a hard afternoon of shopping at the mall.

Of course, that sort of flippancy simply wouldn't do in today's hard-sell world, part of the reason Tony doesn't bother writing for today's hunting magazines.


“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck