I enjoy all aspects of the outdoors - hiking, camping, 4WDing, hunting, shooting, fishing and everything that relates to those things, including some politics! Of course, other stuff might occasionally crop up here but that's just how things are.
For this first post, I'll leave off with a little poem I've always liked. I'm sure you'll see why.
If a sportsman true you’d be
Listen carefully to me. . .
Never, never let your gunPointed be at anyone.
That it may unloaded be
Matters not the least to me.
When a hedge or fence you cross
Though of time it cause a loss
From your gun the cartridge take
For the greater safety’s sake.
If twixt you and neighboring gun
Bird shall fly or beast may run
Let this maxim ere be thine
"Follow not across the line."
Stops and beaters oft unseen
Lurk behind some leafy screen.
Calm and steady always be
"Never shoot where you can’t see."
You may kill or you may miss
But at all times think this:
"All the pheasants ever bred
Won’t repay for one man dead."
"Early Instruction"
By Carl Kauba
c. 1902
