Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Shooting Straight

Taking Aim: Daring to Be Different, Happier, and Healthier in the Great Outdoors – Eva Shockey (Convergent Books)

Hunting and hunters could be the most mis-understood activity and people on the planet. Anti-hunting types are famous for rolling out tired tropes that go something like this; “How could anyone shoot such a beautiful creature” or “I hope you enjoy having that beautiful creatures – head, skin, antlers, on your wall”.

In this day and age of the Twit-iot, short for Twitter idiot, and high profile hunters it has become all the more easy and vicious to attack something that you don’t understand. One of those high profile hunting celebrities is Eva Shockey, co-host of her father’s Outdoor Channel program, Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures. Eva is out with a new book, Taking Aim: Daring to Be Different, Happier, and Healthier in the Great Outdoors, in which she details her life transition from being the daughter of a high profile hunter, to becoming a skilled practitioner and successful, professional adventurer in her own right.

She outlines the reasons why the preponderance of hunters are focused conservation and enjoying the great outdoors and all that they have to offer. Shockey has been on the receiving end of some brutal pushback by anti-hunting types, and like most idiots who can’t win in the war of ideas, they resort to vicious name calling and threats. While she just has easily ignored this crap or pulled down social media sites, Eva lays out the case why she chose to respond head on and educate this drooling morons about what hunters do what they do and how the multitude of folks involved in the sport actually contribute millions of dollars to conservation efforts and millions of pounds of food to help feed the hungry every year.

While hunting may not be your thing, Taking Aim is a positive bit of roll modeling for anyone, but notably young girls on how they can deal with the challenges that our society throws at them every day.

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