NY TIMES - Women & Hunting Article

[1776 Rebel]

I believe this is about the third or fourth article recently in the NY Times that is non-judgemental and actually a very positive treatment of hunting. I don't know what has gotten into them commie bastards lately but I will take what I can get.

For the better part of a decade they have not really had anyone covering hunting or fishing. Back in the day they did have a staff writer Nelson Bryant that covered the outdoors. That was when 'the outdoors' was part of the SPORTS DESK. He stopped writing three or four years ago. He was part of the WWII generation and had that background of being a kid in pre war America. Of fighting in the Big war. Great stories and coverage of hunting and fishing. As a kid I would volunteer to get the Sunday Times for my family from the candy store around the corner. I would then dig for his articles in the sports section. Buried between baseball or football stories would be the Maine woods and deer hunting,  the Florida Keys and tarpon fishing or some small Catskill NY trout stream hanging out with Lee Wulff. If you want to read something of his here is an article on the D-Day Invasion.

http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/508/508_memories.html

But I digress ...

This article today is about a group of middle class ladies in Mississippi that go duck hunting together. It also has a slideshow assoc. with it. A couple of nice photos there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sports/othersports/05hunt.html?_r=1