Dan Aadland Ph.D. MA BA's The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter PDF

By Dan Aadland Ph.D. MA BA

ISBN-10: 0803206909

ISBN-13: 9780803206908

ISBN-10: 0803210698

ISBN-13: 9780803210691

Since first studying to address a Winchester .22 as a child, Dan Aadland has exulted in hunting—not as a game yet as a calling. during this ebook he is taking readers to Montana’s prairies and mountains looking for antelope, whitetail deer, moose, and the occasional upland chicken as he vividly describes the rituals and camaraderie of looking culture.

In fifteen essays recounting a life of adventures, Aadland spins stories of a hunter whose years were enriched by means of pursuing video game lower than Montana’s enormous sky. He conveys the drama of stalking elk in deep snow, while occasionally simply the opportunity at a shot is sufficient, and describes the tips of bowhunting. He tells how looking with horses was once “the genuine deal”: planting one’s foot within the stirrup and sensing an affinity with nice hunters of the earlier. Underlying his memoir is a deep appreciate for natural world and appreciation for the West.

Sometimes nostalgic, frequently funny, Aadland’s ebook recounts the highs and lows of the quest whereas revealing why the pursuit of video game is still so very important to such a lot of humans. The better of All Seasons depicts looking as a necessary a part of the great existence, suggesting that during our civilized age it but is still a essentially average act. In permitting readers a glimpse into that lifestyles, this ebook at the same time indicates that for Dan Aadland, effective writing comes simply as naturally.

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Almost always it involved the 1947 Ford or one of the Amos brothers’ Studebakers. Only once did it involve a more suitable vehicle, a Jeep, but that was unpleasant, with brother Andy and me stuffed into the rear jump seats, cold feet, moving on two big bucks too early, the friend’s father angry with us for blowing the chance. 22 rifles, walking was not a chore. There was a profound lack of money. Rounds of big game ammunition were counted individually, treasured and hoarded. Food came from Mom: huge slices of her homemade bread sandwiching last night’s main dish, whatever that had been.

The white toward the tops of the peaks had that deep, velvety look, even from twenty miles away. Friday after school Mom helped me make some sandwiches. Then, after checking the oil and the gas gauge level of the old Ford I cranked its flathead six into life and headed up the valley. What a victory; what a release! To be sixteen years old (Montana kids could legally drive at fifteen, and still can), with an aged car to call one’s own, a rifle with which to hunt, and freedom, finally, from four schoolroom walls; to be driving toward snowy mountains inhabited by deer, moose, and elk, pulled toward adventure by the throaty roar of an engine whose oil you changed yourself.

He was not a hunter or a rifleman. “I’ve got some black plastic in the basement. ” And so we did. We appropriated the thick plastic from an old jukebox Dad was salvaging for the amplifier and speakers. He cut it to shape, and I heated a soldering iron and pressed lines into the plastic in a checker18 robert and the basin buck 2. 303 British, with his father’s handiwork. board fashion to keep it from being slippery. I still have the rifle. I was in my first stage of ballistics study, reading voraciously the writings of firearms scribes in the big three, Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, and Sports Afield, subscriptions to all of which Mom, a magazine nut herself, had sent in for me.

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