An old boar black bear is a trophy of a lifetime for any hunter, and for good reason. Those who pursue him would do well to consider their quarry has spent a lifetime avoiding the moment.
The only hunters in his family were his grandfathers, one of whom he never met and the other too old to take to the field by the time the author came of age. So the offer by a family friend to take him hunting was too good to be true for a youngster.
A chance to follow in his father’s footsteps on a moose hunt in Finland proved to be irresistible to the author, who may never have become a gunwriter without his father’s pioneering trip 33 years ago.
Federal Ammunition has continued its support of youth shooting sports as a Silver Level Sponsor of the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) for the 2023 season.