1-10 SS Becoming Hunter
Becoming an outdoorsman. A process that can evolve out of childhood through a relationship with a parent, or can come from an epiphany moment, or grow from a relationship with magazines. The latter is the case that we will discuss next. Terry Heneghan came to the Northwest from family roots in a rural setting in the East. Once here, he became a proficient sportsman. Here’s a kind of sit around the campfire story about a 1st hunting experience. “This has sort of evolved over the years. I am from the East Coast originally, so I never hunted it all. I moved out here for a year to take some time off after college in 1981 and I had never been hunting a day in my life. I was working for a painting crew and I had a buddy asked for a Wednesday off and asked him why he needed the day off and he said because I want to go deer hunting. I had always sort of lived my life vicariously through Outdoor Life and Field and Stream, we had a cabin when I was a kid in Maine and I used to go there to fish a lot but I never hunted. I asked him if I could come along and he said sure, my dad has an extra gun and we went out and shot the gun and we went out on opening day and I got my deer and he didn’t (chuckle). He was out in front of me and he spotted the deer, I didn’t want to catch up to him because I didn’t think I could and so I went to the other side of the ridge and he ended up pushing the deer over the top, it came right to me in the timber and it was a start to a long relationship with the outdoors.
