There is a different feel about a hunting gun. It carries fond memories. Used with skill, it provides special meat for the table, healthy meat, meat that carries the spirit of the wild and has flavors that were known to our ancestors millions of years ago. —James A. Swan, In Defense of Hunting, 1995. - See more at: http://sportingclassicsdaily.c...sthash.NjLRdDRJ.dpuf

The rifle is a noble weapon. It brings us pleasures that no scatter-gunner can ever know. A shotgun takes you into cultivated fields, or into those narrow wastes within sight and sound of civilization. But the rifle entices its bearer into primeval forests, into mountains and deserts untenanted by man. To him in whom the primitive virtues of courage, energy and love of adventure have not been sapped, there is scarce a joy comparable to roaming at will through wild regions, viewing the glories of the unspoiled earth, and feeling the inexpressible thrill of manliness sore-tested by privation and hazard, but armed and undismayed.

Horace Kephart

Great quotes, gentlemen!