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Here at MeatEater, we love to get notes from our fans. They are all special, but this one has a certain cadence and freehanded poetry that keeps me reading it again and again. There’s a writer in each of us. -Steven Rinella
Steven, you’re show is awesome. I am 65 and have been hunting since I was 8 in the East Texas river bottoms and now in North central Texas. I was raised on quail, squirrel, hog, and deer. One of my son’s got his first deer when he was 9 (he is 18 now) with my feather weight 30.06, me holding back of stock, scope gets his eye bad, but I had taught him to break their neck, can’t run off, blood dripping off his face, no problem. At 14 he and my neice same age see 60 hogs 700 yards away, run through the woods for a close enough shot, both get there first. First coyote at 14 also, running through a field at 150 yards, did a hay pow on him, says hay, it stops, pow broke his neck with his .243. When this son John was 5 he walked to a tank on our property alone for three days and caught 107 crappie. Now he also loves bow hunting, but hog hunting the most. I love the decal with the forks.
Yep! I must agree with you………as usual!
Steve, my son Sawyer is so excited about your upcomming season. Living here in Montana he is ready for his first hunting year. He wants to hunt the right way also. He also said he would love to go on a hunt with you he only wishes he was old enough to enter sweapsteaks to try to do it. Happy Hunting.
This is an awesome show!!!!!! Please keep it going, as I was addicted to your first show/Wild Outdoors(?).
Going to Alaska this August! What kind of rainwear do you recommend? I feel that if it’s waterproof/breathable, then it’s right…correct?
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Charles
I’m getting ready to take my fraternal twin daughters on their first duck hunt this fall right before they turn 8. Two years, deer hunting (legal minimum age is 10 in MN). Great to see a letter about getting very young kids involved. Gives me encouragement for this fall.
Which moves me to the topic that originally motivated me to write. My daughters love you, Steve, but YOU HAVE to get some women hunters in the show. The big majority of hunters are still male, but the world is changing…300,000 girls under the age of 16 in the U.S. are hunters, about a third of that generation. The show has to be a little less “guy oriented”.
It has helped my girls to see women hunters online, in magazines, and in conservation groups I’m in. You gotta get on this !
Best,
Erik Jensen, Minneapolis, MN
There may be 300,000 girls in the USA that are hunters, but there are only about 20,000 clowns worldwide (see – http://nationalclownweek.org/frequently%20asked%20questions%20on%20clown%20week.html – ) and as a conservationist myself, I find those numbers troubling…the number of clowns that are hunters are too low to estimate, but it’s probably fair to say that most are in the East and are probably archers – if it’s not, what is? So Steve, break out that clown suit and face-paint – young man, there’s work to be done!
Thanks for your show. You would pass for my cousin, but I would like to know if rubber boots are a must for hunt in south Ga. Thanks Again For Your Show. Wayne
Just watched your Arizona lion hunt it was Great! I been hunting lions for 20yrs and this told it like it is, These guys now there stuff handle the dogs good and love the sport! Thats why I enjoy your show you tell it like is and its not always about the kill. Keep it up!!