​The best wingshot we can be – we owe it to the birds

Isn’t it peculiar that we happily take lessons for pretty much anything we want to take part in – dancing, golf, singing, tennis – everything under the sun – yet when it comes to bird hunting, we pick up a loaded gun and tote it around among our friends and loved ones (including our dogs) with no clue what we’re doing, yet don’t consider taking a training course beforehand!  That’s how I started, anyway.  Worse, I’ve started others the same way.  Then one day I woke up with one of those vocation-type convictions that I wanted to teach people to hunt.  Properly!
 
Don’t we owe it to the birds … and fellow hunters, our dogs, and to the noble sport itself… to be the best we can be: conscientious, capable and humane hunters?  At the very least, we owe it to ourselves. ​

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