Author: James L. Bruner
The purpose of this article is to bring awareness to the safety factor when hunting with firearms. Many times the simplest elements are overlooked and for some it comes with a heavy pricetag.
Though many days had passed spent fishing, I often wondered just how much of the outdoors I had instilled in my daughter. At 6 years of age she was as good with a rod and reel as many twice her size and enjoyed watching the fish swim away after we released them as much as catching them. Proud to show off her tackle box to anyone who happened by, she would pry open the tiny lid and spread the trays out revealing her meager fortune of assorted tackle. In a gesture that reminded me of a grown up, she would clench a can of soda in her tiny hands, lean back, and swallow a large drink as the fellow fisherman gazed at the tackle she so proudly displayed. Always courteous the fisherman would compliment her on the arsenal of lures she possessed. One can only suggest that the lures must have looked like precious jewels of many shapes and colors to such a young girl.
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