Eva Shockey tagged posts

By Richard Grant

Originally published on RichardGrant.US and reposted here with permission from the author.

THORNTON, Miss. — Cadi Thompson saw the deer first, but she wanted to give her friend Amber the chance to kill it. It was a frozen winter dawn on the Thompson family farm and hunting property. The two nursing students were concealed in a box stand, a simple wooden structure with openings to shoot through. The deer was a brown smudge on the tree line 200 yards away.

Cadi, a fresh-faced, confident 25-year-old, has been hunting white-tailed deer since she was 7. She lifted up her rifle and checked the animal through the telescopic sights. “It’s an eight-point,” she said, meaning it was a mature buck with eight tines on his antlers and a good deer to shoot...

We loved hearing from many of you via Instagram, Facebook and Twitter during National Shooting Sports Foundation’s 2015 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoors Tradeshow last week!  How exciting it was and overwhelming at times as it was our first SHOT Show ever!!  Here are our top highlights:

• Meeting women of the industry (too many great women to list here but -wow- we have renewed energy for our cause! What motivation!! And you’ll be hearing from many of them as guest posters!)
• Eva Shockey (we’ll be directly delivering our petitions by the end of February.  Final reminder – sign here!)
• Meeting passionate and quality retailers and manufacturers.  And – yep – we’re name dropping a few right here, right now! … Bass Pro (king of the sporting world), First Lite (new women’s line for spring 2015! Ca...

We’re  over 100 signatures on the petition to support Eva Shockey and hunters across the country and we’re excited about it!  Eva has taken notice by retweeting and we are pleased to have the support of Prois Hunting & Field Apparel for Women  and Huntress View! 

Thank you to everyone who has already signed on and if you haven’t it’s not too late!!  Please help us keep up the momentum and share the petition with family and friends – happy Friday sportsmen and women!! Here’s the petition language:

“On behalf of sportsmen and women from across the United States, thank you Eva Shockey for continuing to educate the public about what it means to be a hunter. Like you, we are conservationists who enjoy getting outside and harvesting our own dinner...