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Annual Shoot-Don’t Shoot Quiz

A while back I wrote about the similarities between bass fishing and deer hunting. But there is one major aspect where the two activities are different: When you catch a bass and decide you do not want to keep it you simply drop it back into the water, while when you squeeze the trigger and a buck hits the ground, you cannot take the shot back.[…]

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Making things go boom

In all its infinite wisdom, the U.S. Army determined after basic training at Ft. Polk, La., that I needed to be bussed to Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. — a multi-use base about 50 miles from St. Louis — where I would receive advanced individual training (AIT) in my Army skill.[…]

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Illegal night hunting

One dark Friday night in early November 1977, under the direction of an older, more-experienced wildlife enforcement officer, I parked the Bronco overlooking a large area of recently harvested soybean fields.[…]