GQ’s Rosecran Baldwin Visits Hunting Camp, Learns How to Kill in Seven Days
OutdoorHub 03.03.14
GQ’s Rosecrans Baldwin felt the urge to reconnect with the great outdoors and learn to hunt. He had a long-standing offer, from an uncle in Montana with a propensity for “hunting the shit out of things,” to host him for a weeklong crash course. He took his uncle, Cy, up on the offer and traveled to Western Montana for his first hunting trip.
Some excerpts from the article:
“About guns, about hunting, it’s safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.”
“Now I can see him: eight antler tines in the air. I flick off the safety and fretfully run down my checklist. White-tailed deer: yes. Male: yes. Reasonably old, good-sized: yes. Kill shot present: yes. Gun pulled into my shoulder, crosshairs steady on the target, adrenaline pushing my pulse to a drum solo—My mind empties.”
“I load another bullet as Cy taught me then go to find Charlie before realizing I am running with a loaded gun, safety off, pointing directly at whatever or whomever I I meet next.”
“Ten minutes into gutting, I’m ‘ringing the ass,’ running a four-inch German hunting knife around a pelvic canal while Uncle Cy, an experienced hunter, hisses useful advice in my ear, like ‘Don’t ruin my fucking knife.'”
“Someone hands me a beer. I close my eyes. It is approximately 9 A.M.”
“I realize I’ve figured out why criminals return to the scene of their crimes—I want to relive the experience.”
“Two weeks later, I want more.”
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