{"id":15457,"date":"2019-01-18T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2019-01-18T20:47:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:47:36","slug":"wife-mom-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wife-mom-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife, Mom, Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve said many times that I believe the secret to passing on the heritage of hunting is with moms. If dad is the only hunter, kids consider it a hobby. If dad and mom hunt, kids regard it as a lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Click HERE<\/a> to read the story of my wife’s first successful hunt – a hunt that changed her life and the lives of our children.<\/p>\n

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Drema having fun while on safari in Africa.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Drema’s first animal, which was taken on her first safari in Africa. She used her Mossberg rifle in 243 Winchester and a Nosler Partition.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve said many times that I believe the secret to passing on the heritage of hunting is with moms. If dad is the only hunter, kids consider it a hobby. If dad and mom hunt, kids regard it as a lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2522,2820,2815],"tags":[391,361,275,464,120,648,506],"class_list":["post-15457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hunt","category-latest","category-nras-american-hunter","tag-africa","tag-hunting-families","tag-linda-powell","tag-moms-who-hunt","tag-mossberg","tag-safari","tag-women-hunters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Drema-Africa-3.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-41j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7812,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/mom-the-hunter\/","url_meta":{"origin":15457,"position":0},"title":"Moms Matter","author":"gunwriter","date":"December 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Crisp fall days never fail to flood me with memories.\u00a0I can remember lying in a pasture field beside my Mom, in the dark, looking at the stars, and listening to coonhounds sing along behind a ringtail headed to his den.\u00a0I can remember sitting on a log, rifle on my lap\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "HUNTING"","block_context":{"text":"HUNTING","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/category\/hunt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DD.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DD.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DD.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DD.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14414,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wife-mother-hunter-i-hit-the-jackpot\/","url_meta":{"origin":15457,"position":1},"title":"Wife, Mother, Hunter – I hit the jackpot!","author":"gunwriter","date":"August 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks 23 years of being married to the most amazing woman in the world. 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