Meet Shyanne Roberts.
She’s a 10-year-old competitive shooter with a custom painted purple and black gun.
Today, she’s competing against 200 of the top women shooters at the Brownell’s Lady 3-Gun Pro-Am Challenge in Covington, Georgia.
She said she wants “”to be an inspiration to other kids and be a leader.” As the youngest competitive shooter at today’s event, we think she is.
Good luck, Shyanne!
Read the article about her on CNN.com.
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Brandon Butler is back on CITNB to share another story – this one on how hunting dogs have a sneaky way of becoming family. Read his first post here.
Brandon Butler and Junior
Junior was born the son of Bocephus. He was destined for greatness. Having a renowned retriever for a father sets expectations high. Junior may have never won a world title, but he was a champion. The tears of two little girls prove it.
From the first time I read Where the Red Fern Grows over 20 years ago, I dreamt of owning a well-trained, highly-functional hunting dog. Time and attention kept that dream from becoming a reality for too long. Opportunity struck when I was presented the chance to buy Junior as a three-year-old field trial washout.
Finished retrievers aren’t cheap...
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Dan’s first birds.
Recently, I read Leigh Newman’s essay What a Camping Trip Taught Me About My Marriage (and Myself) in Real Simple and it got me thinking about my own relationship to the outdoors and my husband Dan.
Like Leigh, I come from a family deeply rooted in the outdoors and the sportsman and woman community. So when I traded in my smaller hometown for the big city and stayed my family was a little in shock. And then when I fell in love with a city boy who loved to mountain bike they were welcoming but a little surprised. While Dan loved the outdoors and worked at outdoor camps he had never been hunting or exposed to the sportsman community. My brother joked that Dan had to “kill something” before becoming a part of our family...
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Who doesn’t love a nice fire? You can build your own fire pit by following the step-by-step guide in this infographic:
Source: eReplacementParts.com
I have a confession to make – I’m not much of a morning person. It’s not that I like to sleep late, (typically I can’t stay in bed later than 8 a.m. and most days I’m up by 7) but I definitely am a creature of the sun, and if it isn’t up then neither should I be. At least that’s my rationale...
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