This
is a funny book! It’s a good laugh for serious hunters
and it’s a vindication for those who would like to be
serious. Heimbuch tells the story of how, over a four year
period, he finally got his first kill. He went from a guy
who had no interest in guns, (when he asked what is it for,
the answer was, of course, for shooting), to a dedicated hunter.
His father had
been interested in guns his whole life and had never offered
him the opportunity to own a gun or to hunt. Then, at the
age of married with children, his father suddenly called him
to the basement one day, opened the safe and handed him a
Winchester over-under twelve gauge shotgun along with five
minutes of instruction. He thought his father had suddenly
contracted cancer and was dying. No, he just thought he was
now of the age to be interested.
His account of
his first few pheasant hunts is humorous. And, how he got
the bug after a winged miss. And then, how he tramped through
brush and found himself on cracking ice, but continued on
to get his kill, one bird. You will laugh at his account of
the dressing and eating of this bird.
This is a Great
Christmas gift for men who like to do manly things and those
who don’t.
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