O' Connor could teach you somthing and entertain you at the same time. If there is something he wrote that I haven' t read I' d like to get my hands on it. I like John Wooters and Dick Idol and Zumbo. There are some local guys here in Western Canada that write stuff for local Western Canada mags. that have some good things to say and an ability to say it.

As far as first hand teaching and mentoring I didn' t get much of that. My dad and uncles took me fishing some but weren' t into hunting. I was born with a hunting gene though cause I learned most of what I know from books and trial and error. So far I haven' t gone to " trial" for any " error" .

When I was a small fry I traded an old gitar for an old .177 cal pellet gun with no front sight. I made a front sight with a file and a penny and spent hours hunting animals I' d built out of modeling clay. Then I graduated to hunting small birds and mice and gophers and rabbits with that pellet gun.

Robin