The pot hunter

[GoodOlBoy]

I know I know I am asking for it. Pot hunter's have a bad rep amongst sport hunters, but in the end many of us fall closer to the former than the later. After all we kill cleanly (oops pardon my non PC we HARVEST cleanly) and eat what we take. But in the end how many of use really come home with the old mixed game bag that was once the trademark of a pot hunter? And how many of us use a caliber that would really be considered a pot hunter caliber?

Me I remember coming home from hunting with one great grandfather or another with a shoulder bag of squirrel, rabbit, quail, and other game. Heck if a possum wandered out while I was squirrel hunting it went in the bag as it was good for trade in the colored community nearby. Same thing with a coon. At that time in my life a box of 22 long rifles cost around .60 cents a box, and 20 gauge shotgun shells ran me $1.53 a box. Coon brought $1.25, and possum brought .75 cents (unless it was a particularly fat possum), and that's not counting fur if it was winter. So with a GOOD evening or afternoon hunt I could plug a couple of squirrels, rabbits, etc for home, get a coon or possum on the way back (usually in the trees behind grandpa's old chicken pen) and come home both with food, AND with the means of supplying myself with more ammunition the next time we went to town. We did coon hunt in those days, but I didn't enjoy it as much because no matter how many I took great grandpa kept all the profits from them.

Anyway I ran across a old prince albert tobacco can full of 22s today and just got a little nostalgic.

GoodOlBoy