Wed, Nov 25 2009
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Teaching grandsons the ways of the outdoor world Alex will be no big problem. He screams and hollers when he doesn’t get his way, and just the other day he stepped on a bug first and then asked me what kind it was. There is little doubt that he won’t mind fishing with worms instead of hellgrammites, and if he has to smoke a squirrel out of his den to get a shot at it, Alex will be up to the task. He won’t mind shooting his first duck while it is sitting on the water, knowing there will be plenty of flying targets to come.
So therefore, Ryan is the one I have to give the greatest effort to at this point, and I am up to the task. I realize that it will take some lying to his mother to get him out there where he needs to be, teaching him what he needs to be taught. It might surprise you to know that an outdoor writer might resort to stretching the truth, but when the goal is lofty, you have to compromise your principles a little. Right now the squirrels are working the hickories, and I intend to take Ryan on his first squirrel hunt soon. He won’t be shooting at them for quite awhile, but I’ll let him carry the ones I get with my .22 rifle, and it will give me the chance to explain why it isn’t bad to be a hunter, and what a hunter’s responsibility is when he hunts. I’ll show him how to clean game and put the meat to use, as God has always intended for man to do, since the time when men hunted with weapons they made from flint rocks and dressed in animal skins and lived in caves. I may even get really deep into philosophy and explain to him that if mankind goes far enough in this advanced world of technology and computer chips, and keeps going to operas, there might come a time when he might have to live that way again. That probably is a little above Alex, but I think Ryan might understand. Address correspondence to Larry Dablemont, Box 22, Bolivar, Mo., 65613. Send e-mail to lightninridge@alltel.net, check the Web site www.larrydablemont.com, or call (417) 777-5227. 
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