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zines about hunting in general, about deer hunting, about whitetailed deer hunting; and even hunting magazines specific to sections of the country or to individual states. Multiply the number of magazines by the ads in each for hunting arms, and you won’t be as inundated with information as the Internet BY TALKING to local hunters about turkey calls, the inquiring search, but you’ll under- hunter, besides obtaining a brand and model stand the saying that recommendation from them, might also get calling once you’re in deep instruction, a valuable bonus just for the asking. enough to drown, how much more water is above your head re- eral manufacturers that he had been conally doesn’t matter. sidering, but he knew it was the right one Certainly, information is necessary for for him only because of the finishing touch us to make choices on how we enjoy the supplied by recommendation. outdoor sports. But somehow that ocean It doesn’t matter what type of hunting of information has to be reduced to just I’m doing, spring gobbler, summer groundone drop. hog, fall archery or winter flintlock, each Several years ago, my husband and I brings with it a flood of information. Right were looking for a new deer rifle for him. now my question is what mouth call should We didn’t go the Internet search route and I buy to entice a turkey tom this May? The get slammed by the information tidal wave, information out there (“Results 1 - 10 of because he already had some preferences 3,700,000”) says I have a wide array of in mind. He had condensed the choices to manufacturers producing mouth calls in several gunmakers, so we looked up just single, double, even triple reed, for makthose on the Web to see what they had in ing soft and sweet to mean and raspy calls, bolt action models of lighter carrying in a range of prices. If I read the magazines weight, in his preferred caliber. We com- and Internet review postings, I can find out pared specs on their rifles, choices of stock which mouth calls the experts, the turkey materials, barrel and overall length, carry- hunting writers and Joe-Hunter-with-aing weight, caliber availability and more. Web-connection uses and likes, as a sort The information stream was now down to of midway point before I make my pura trickle, but he wasn’t yet ready to make a chase. Lastly, I’ll ask around my own huntdecision. ing circle, talk to those who are also after So he sought recommendations from Pennsylvania birds and who know my friends who hunt like we hunt, in the same hunting style and my calling abilities. I’ll types of places we hunt, in the same con- not only get a brand and model recommenditions. Finally, out of all those firearms, dation from them, but I’ll probably get all that raw data he had been swimming mouth-calling instruction, a valuable boin, he at last came to ground on a specific nus just for the asking. rifle. The Remington Mountain Rifle had As hunters, we’re always sorting through been one of the several models from sev- information and taking recommendations
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