Hunting Aerobics: An excerpt from
Guns, Ted Nugent's God & Rock'n'Roll
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...Yanking the little gun between popple saplings and tag alders, the barrels swung and covered the second bird just as he cleared the understory and bang-puffed him cleanly...
...I was so happy, I was drunk on life...
...Excerpted from God, Guns, & Rock'n'Roll by Ted NageT,t, with permission from Regne O, Publishing...
...The best exercise is woodchopping, treeplanting, or just cruising the wild...
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...Both birds were brought to hand simultaneously, and I stuffed the soggy prizes into my game bag and hugged and kissed both dogs wildly...
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...My dogs have been encouraged to tree squirrels, too, so a .22 handgun and a few magnum 6's are always handy...
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...Every pocket of brackenfern, popple, and alder-choked cover represented a gold mine of birdencountering excitement, and I plodded on, unstoppable...
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...You will put in the miles, and you won't feel a bit of fatigue because it is so exhilarating humping from cover to cover...
...Deadfalls, beaverponds, and muck-bottomed creeks were negotiatI stuffed the soggy prizes into my game bag...
...And I do mean chase...
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...As the wet birds and occasional bonus duck, goose, rabbit, hare, and squirrel filled my vest, the weight and bulk pulled it back down below my fanny and, in combination with my saturated clothes, represented quite the ballast...
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...As the word "fetch" left my lips, a second doodle winged hard and fast behind me and to my left, and I had to shove the safety forward just as it clicked back...
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...The weather went from great to awesome (bad to worse for a nonhunter) and the building nor'wester brought with it visions of migrating timberdoodles, my favorite game bird in the world...
...You are driven by-alm0st blinded to-the effort...
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...Any breed dog will do if you spend adequate time training it with birds and guns, but setters, labs, and spaniels are the favorites for the job...
...It was one of those mystical days where I quit my morning bowhunting treestand earl} on a hunch...
...We hiked, climbed, waded, stumbled, trudged, and walked that day, like so many others before and after, for mile after sopping mile, and I never felt tired for a minute...
...But treadmills, stairmasters, and rowing machines...
...The training is fun, the shooting is fun, and the hunting is absolutely amazing...
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...You will, like myself, find yourself trudging up another spectacular, firecolored ridge somewhere far from the truck and the pavement as the day comes to a close, not realizing your legs have carried you far bcvond what you thought was their limit }lad it just been a normal stroll...
...Having learned long ago to load the gun immediately and shut the door quietly, I was ready...
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...And my God is it fun...
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...Right now, the grouse population is peaking again after a nearly twenty-five-year slump, and though woodcock are scattered, there are still plenty of birds to chase...
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...With the truck only twenb~-five yards behind us, the flutter of wings erupted to my right as the mottled 'cock catapulted for open, dark sky, a red setter nipping at his tailfeathers...
...My hat brim was pulled as low as possible to save my eyes, but I looked up, down, to and fro anyway, scanning every direction for the form of an exploding grouse or woodcock against the small openings to the gunmetal grey sky...
...To this day, I am not sure whether the cardiovascular benefits of the hunt outweigh the spiritual upgrade, but I do know this: I come awav a better man following every walk on the wild side, soul to soul with the good Mother Earth and all her season of harvest glory...
...Ted Nugent Celebrates the Aerobic Benefits of Killing the Food You Eat T ae-bo, step aerobics, kick boxing, jogging, Hi-Energy workouts...
...You will learn to naturally identify the best bird holes after a while...
...Forget it...
...I always carry some magnum steel loads for the occasional beaverpond full of mallards, wood ducks, and sometimes Canada geese...
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...I would not want to have lived a life without Johnny B. Goode--or without compositions of the Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds, Hen&ix, Cream, Aerosmith, Van Ha]en and Christina Agnilera--I love 'em all...
...I would have to give a great salute to Samuel Colt and Mr...
...That's how it was for me, the rain whipping sideways and peppering my face like microscopic birdshot...
...Me and the setters could barely stand it...
...The more impenetrable the terrain, the better the birding...
...You need to get out when the rain is as close to snow as it can be in October...
...They are unquestionably in hound heaven, working furiously to find a bird for dad...
...The caliber of decent, caring, thoughtful human beings I have raised: Starr, Sasha, Tob> Rocco...
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...But with the incredible stimuli of dogs and birds and wind and nature, buoyed by the challenge of wingshooting, you won't even realize you've had a workout...
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...And they actually pay to do it...
...They need the perspective of this guy who's out on the wonderful streets of this country without apologizing, without compromising, without backing off--'cause I'm one bad motherf---er...
...Now, lnind you, I'm all for anything that resembles exercise or any good workout in an embarrassing world of 5o percent obesi~', especially among children...
...Young threeto five-year-old aspen growth where it meets patches of ferns bordering low, wet, alder-clumped thickets are nearly guaranteed birdzone for both grouse and woodcock...
...I was so happy, I was drunk on life...
...And God bless the Chinese for inventing gunpowder...
...Nugent argues that we not only have a right to protect ourselves and our loved ones, but we have a duty to do so...
...But if you want the ultimate productive workout, lace up a pair of waterproof hunting boots, grab a shotgun, fill your pockets with shells, call the dogs to heel, then head straight into the nastiest sawgrass marsh wildzone you can find and prepare to magnahump and sweat up a storm...
...If you have never tried upland gunning, now is the time...
...His new book God, Guns, & Rock 'n' Roll offers an unapologetic argument for complete and unequivocal gun rights, plus a new attitude towards protecting our individual rights against the onslaught of big government...
Vol. 33 • November 2000 • No. 9
