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Hunting Translates into Art

• The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
  -- James Swan

The Evolution of "Gillie" -
Our Wirehaired Pointing Griffon

Sportsmen and Preservation

• In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
  -- Theodore Roosevelt

Ernest Hemingway, Wingshooter

He loved the warm sun of summer and the high mountain meadows, the trails through the timber and the sudden clear blue of the lakes. He loved the hills in the winter when the snow comes.

Best of all he loved the fall … the fall with the tawny and grey, the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods, leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills the high blue windless skies.

He loved to shoot, he loved to ride and he loved to fish.

Now he will be a part of them forever.

More Hemingway:

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying."

"They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

-- Ernest Hemingway

From Henry David Thoreau

• We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
  -- Henry David Thoreau

• When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes - remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education - make them hunters.
  -- Henry David Thoreau

For Your Reference

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  Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

  http://wildlife.utah.gov/

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  Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks

  http://fwp.mt.gov/

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  Idaho Department of Fish and Game

  http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/

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  Wyoming Game & Fish Department

  https://gf.state.wy.us/

More Hunting Quotes a la BIFF

• At home a friend will ask, "Been bird hunting?" You will say that you have, and when he asks, "Have any luck?" You will think of what you have held in your heart instead of your hand, and tell him that you certainly did - without a doubt.
  -- Gene Hill, Field & Stream, 1990

• I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
  -- Ed Zern

• If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
  -- Aristotle

• I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its implications. I also hunt without killing - whether by accident or design - and I do not apologize for that either. There is room in longbow country for a spectrum of tastes and attitudes, and that is as it should be.
  -- E. Donnall Thomas, Jr.