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Home Butchering Ain’t for Sissies. . .
It’s been awhile but I promised to talk about our hog butchering, home edition. It wasn’t pretty. We brought my first kill home, along with her piglet, and as I was inside searching the phone book for a meat processor with late hours, hubby was outside in our carport with mama pig across his open…
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Gettin’ Mama Hog and Her Baby Outta the Dark Dark Woods
Well, I promised to tell the story of how Jimmy and I got my first kill, a wild female sow, and one of her babies, out of the woods that February day back in 2010. We were so pumped! He didn’t even realize that I had seen a pig until he saw me raise my…
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Hunting with Hubby
There is nothing so good for bonding as husband and wife than going with your husband on a hunting expedition. Getting up at 4:30 to make it to the deer blind and stand at least two hours before daylight somehow brings man and wife together in a way that sleeping until 10:00 a.m. on a weekend…
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How I Got Started
Way back when I was in college (circa 1978), I met a guy who loved to hunt and took me with him to hunt on his family’s land. I would go with him early in the morning and sit in trees and on the ground holding a rifle I had no idea how to shoot. …
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Hello, Lady Hunters!
It’s never too late to learn to hunt, girls. I tagged along with a boyfriend hunter in college and sat out in the cold woods with a rifle I had no idea how to shoot, just because I wanted to be with him. It has taken me over 30 years to realize that I can…
April Coker, Author 