The Maine Outdoorsman: Women Gone Wild – Interview

by Oct 5, 2011Women Who Hunt

The Maine Outdoorsman: Women Gone Wild – Interview

The Maine Outdoorsman: Women Gone Wild – Interview:

Steve found me via Twitter and we struck up a conversation about hunting and being a female hunter. Here is my attempt to do the sport justice and represent the female side of things. Hope you all enjoy it!

5 Comments

  1. Rabid Outdoorsman on October 5, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    The interview was fun, thanks to you for putting up with me and not punching me in the nose. 🙂

  2. Anonymous on October 5, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Read the interview, that is how I found my way to your blog. nice job.

  3. Erin on October 5, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    Ha! anytime. My goal now is to take photos while Im in the woods – like @Rick has done and post those. I will work to be more hunting focused in the next month!!! Thanks for cheering me on

  4. LB @ Bullets And Biscuits on October 10, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    I came over from Rabid's blog. Great interview! I really enjoyed it …probably because I am a female hunter too and could relate to most of it.

    Nice to stumble across another female hunter…I will be sure to follow!

  5. Erin on October 11, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Thanks so much!!!

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