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eBook details
- Title: World Hunting Adventures of a Life Time
- Author : Jerry Gillman
- Release Date : January 05, 2014
- Genre: Sports & Outdoors,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 17341 KB
Description
Hunting, what is it all about? Why do we hunt? Hunting could be the most misunderstood sport of our time. Modern society struggles with understanding why educated man enjoys the sport of hunting. Anti-Hunters question the need, necessity and legality for the continuation of the right to hunt when hunting for most of us, is no longer required for our basic survival? So why do we hunt? I grew up listening to stories of my Grandfather talking about his childhood days in Colorado with his father and brothers trapping, hunting and selling bear hides during the late 1920's. I remember my Grandmother's story, told with great joy of her best Buck taken in the 1940's with a 30/30 Winchester saddle gun that I still carry today. Her face would glow as she told the story of dropping the big trophy buck with a single shot as he headed up a steep cannon pass. I remember the story of the big Elk shot with my Grandfather's Lever Action 300 Savage that he left for me when he passed, the disaster Duck hunt and so many more that brought smiles to faces, laughter and joy to the room as these stories were told over and over again during my childhood. When I first started hunting, I was happy to harvest anything. A quail, squirrel, a young doe, any success was a joyous moment for me. As I grew older, more accomplished and experienced, I started Trophy hunting, looking for that one special animal that stood above the rest. My hunting success was measured by the size of the horn and the weight of the Ivory. As I filled the walls of my trophy room with beast from the World over, I traveled further and further from home, hunting in more remote regions of the world, spending time with indigenous people that were raised in vastly different environments with vastly different cultures and customs. When you strip away all the wants and glitter of modern society, and travel to an environment where basic needs of food, water and shelter are the first task of each day's chores, your outlook on life can gain a newfound clarity. So many times people will ask, "Why do you hunt, you must like hurting innocent animals and killing things?" Most anti-hunters and non-hunters find it difficult to understand the love of nature, wilderness and the spiritual awareness that occurs over time when one is blessed with the opportunity to travel to faraway lands and experience the wild side of untouched wilderness. One of my best hunting experiences was a 10 day Elk hunt with my father in the mountains of Montana. Neither of us harvested an Elk, but I harvested one of my most treasured memories with my father. With this book there is plenty of how to information packed inside as you travel along from adventure to adventure, Continent to Continent, experiencing the record book harvest, the quest for the spread of the horn and the weight of the tusk, and sometime along the adventure, maybe you, as I did, will discover why we hunt?