A GATEWAY TO HUNTING

We all want our kids and grandkids to hunt with us, don’t we? I’m an outdoor writer and get to hunt all over America. And yet to this day, the coolest hunts I ever had were as a kid with my dad. I had the best dad and mom in the world, and want to build those same kinds of memories with my kids and grandkids, don’t you?

But where did I start out hunting? Bear in Alaska? Elk in Idaho? Deer in Texas? Hog in Florida? No! It was with a BB gun. Then I graduated to a Benjamin pump-up pellet gun. I think a huge percentage of us started out with airguns. With them I learned to stalk the wily English sparrow and cottonmouth snakes in the creeks