Although I grew up in a family that had no interest in the shooting sports, I've been hunting for as long as I can remember. As a kid I'd make slingshots for my neighbourhood chums, and we'd head down to the creek after English sparrows, starlings, and grackles. In my early twenties I moved to the Prairies and have never been happier.
I'm a rifleman, but I like to match the 'firearm' to the species being hunted. I encourage the use of any legal means to take varmint species. For me that includes bows, spears (including atlatls and harpoons), slings, airguns, shotguns, throwing sticks, throwing nets, sophisticated pea shooters, slingshots--the list goes on.
For years I've wanted to record my hunting. Now, in my later years, I am finding my video camera particularly enjoyable and have been filming videos for this site.
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I chose AWOL Hunting Varmints as the name of the website because I'm one of those people that could spend nearly every day out hunting or shooting. AWOL, in military jargon, means Absent With Out Leave. At home, that's me sometimes. I'd rather hunt varmints than just about anything else. In fact, I tend to let other responsibilities wait for another day when an opportunity to hunt or shoot arises. Some might say that I should be old enough to know better but, personally, I think I'll always be too young to resist.
I'm certain you will feel that you have arrived at one of the best online sources of media and information for varmint hunting techniques and practices. Feel free to browse our hunting videos, our clips of scenes that didn't make it into our full-length video, our online store, our photo gallery, the forum, and/or our articles. Feel free to tell us your great stories or just ask some questions on the forum. And, please, drop us a line when you have something to share with me privately: KenE@awolhuntingvarmints.com.
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