Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Your hunting heritage...where did it come from?

Both my parent's families were hunters and fishermen but my dad (RIP) was an athlete and a soldier without any interest in either. He did teach me to shoot and be safe with firearms. Being an Army Brat we moved a lot and I only met my relatives briefly a few of times in my life so it didn't come from them. I have two brothers and neither is a hunter. Always read everything I could find about Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, mountain men, Kilimanjaro Bill and the rest and day dreamed about hunting. You old guys (my age) will remember the old Sears and Robucks catalog. As a boy I would sit with it for hours and make lists of everything I'd need to order for that next African safari, tiger hunt in India or hunting and trapping expedition into the Yukon. I am still teaching myself to hunt and, to a lessor degree, fish. I have had some decent success but still a lot to learn at almost 60 years of age. My biggest success so far was archery season of 2009 when I killed a 7x8 public land bull elk. I hope take my last breath in the high country with my boots on and my rifle in my hand.