Today I received an email with an attached hunting photo, my favorite kind of email. It was of a person who I look up to and has been a great role model and friend to me for the past dozen years or so. His name is Jerry. I first met him when he accompanied my dad and I on a Quebec Caribou hunt. Our bush plane hit the tundra the day I turned 13, which marks the beginning of what has been and hopefully will continue to be a great hunting career. On that trip, I shot two very nice caribou before I had even harvested my first whitetail buck. As you can imagine a kid like me was walking on air for a long time. During that trip I learned a lot, and the relationship formed with Jerry would lead to many more days afield hunting together but also introduce me to the game of trapshooting. Jerry is the manager/chief/president of the Mitchell Gun Club and while other kids my age were golfing I was shooting trap. I came to love the sport and with the guidance and teaching of Jerry and the other guys that took me under their wings' I prospered. Just this past summer, I ended the league season with the highest overall average for the entire league.
Anyway, he drew a South Dakota Black Hills Elk tag this year for the southern unit and the picture above is the result of 5 days of tough hunting. Congrats Jerry! 
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