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Article: Stranger than fact. (hunting myths and tall tales)
- Article from:
- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 1984
- Author:
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Down in central Mississippi I grew up hearing so many superstitions that even today I sometimes have difficulty separating fact from fantasy. My childhood shooting companions assured me that to shoot a snake would cause a gun to start snapping. It seems that one of their daddies had once shot a snake and from that day on the gun would never fire, only snap. I was told that one shouldn't shoot straight up such as at a squirrel in a tree or at a bird directly overhead. This would strain the gun and it would never shoot as well as it had in the past.
Hogs were supposed to have the ability to see the wind--it appeared red to them. A particular brand of shotgun ...
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