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...hunter, Teddy Roosevelt was a sort of bully Magoo, blazing away in a spirit of exuberant approximation...
...spray ammunition at a beast until he struck a haunch or horn or dewlap. And then he'd wear the poor thing down. The godfather of American conservation and founder of the national parks was capable of gleeful sacrilege and atrocity when he got the scent. In "The Wilderness Hunter," Roosevelt records this moment: "On the way an eagle came soaring over head, and I shot at it twice without success. Having once killed an eagle on the wing with a rifle, I always have a lurking hope that sometime I may be able to repeat the feat. I revenged...
Kalbfleish watches the shooting from a small hill while registering members and handing out club literature. The V.H.A.'s logo, printed on window stickers and patches sewn onto hunter's shirts and caps, shows a prairie dog encircled by the motto "Courtesy. Camaraderie. Conservation." To Kalbfleish, varminting means all of these, but mostly it's about "accuracy." And fun. "Is there any nobility to it? No," he says. "But I don't see any nobility to the other side either, which is, Don't shoot them. My position is, You go do what you want to do, and that...
Their sport yields no meat, no trophies, just pride in one's marksmanship and that freeze-frame moment of annihilation. "Varmint vapor" it's called by hunters. "Montana mist." "Dakota droplets." Apparently unconcerned about p.r. or the tender feelings of nonhunters, varminters have a taste for sick humor and grisly imagery. The 54,000-member V.H.A. sells T shirts that feature cartoons of exploding rodents. Its headquarters in Pierre is lined with snapshots of happy hunters and their diminutive kills. There are images of coyotes, badgers, gophers, and one large close-up of a prairie-dog carcass tumbling through...
JAMES E. ROBINSON 1868-1932 A farmer's son who became an Ohio supreme court justice; was an expert fisherman and hunter...