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Why Hunt?

From time to time we are posed with the question of why we hunt. Generally the answers are laced with explanations where genetic disposition and conservation are combined in an effort to justify the endeavor. While this might be a scientific explanation of reality, it falls short in explaining why we are driven to the woods. Why do we hunt? In hunting there are no …

Terrorists and Silver Bullets

Let’s imagine for a moment there’s been a widespread outbreak of Lycanthropy. OK, if you don’t know what that is, its werewolfism. You know what that is, right? It’s were people who seem otherwise ordinary are afflicted with a disease where they turn violent and at unsuspecting moments attack and kill in mass fashion. Now, let’s also imagine these werewolves have attacked …

Closed for NOTHING

This past weekend Bat and I traveled the 250 mile trip to our family hunting camp in eastern West Virginia. The route we took is one I have been driving for my entire life. It winds through the hills and hollows of West Virginia on a two lane road. There is a faster and easier way to get there but none as …