... knew that the only way her family would eat that winter was if
her hunting skills were good and her shooting was on target. Starting
out in the family's duck blind along the Susquehanna River "Hillary
the Hunter" was on a mission. Knowing that shotguns shells were
expensive (even though she loaded her own) Hillary waited until
the mallards were close enough together that she could kill two
with one shot. 7 times her Remington wingmaster 20 gauge
spoke with a loud boom and 6 times 2 ducks fell from the grey skies ...
Hillary still was disappointed about the one time she only got one
duck with a shot. "Damn I should not be shooting with a modified
choke and # 6 shot ... Pappy taught me better." Said young Ms Rodham
as her Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Buck, brought her the last drake.
Later after cleaning the ducks and putting the meat in the "smoke house"
Hillary cleaned up and changed into some clean camo after which she
took her "Fred Bear Longbow," down from above the hearth and headed
into the hills looking to harvest a deer from her tree stand in a giant
White Oak tree. Truth be told Hillary always looked forward to spending
time in her tree stand waiting for deer and reading her bible it was
there she felt most alive and at one with the world.
And now all those years later she was back in Pennsylvania and
Hillary felt "the call of the wild," and longed to quit the campaign
trail and head back to the outdoors for spring wild turkey season.