Once Upon a Hunt

December 2020( During a time of crisis due to Covid and the ever rising demands for social distancing), I woke one morning and thought to myself. What if I can take my hunters education class online and can finally get my hunters license? At the ripe age of 30, I had been hunting with my husband, maybe, 3 times total. In our 5 years of marriage I think he only hunted probably 5 times.
I remember as a young girl I would stand around the evenings my uncle would come home from hunting and his hunt was successful. They would take the wooden swing off the swingset and set up the gambrel right there. Watching my boy cousins receive praise for their firsts harvest and honestly just all around wanted to be one of the boys. My mom was a single mom so I didn’t have that hunting father figure. I lived in central Mississippi and unfortunately most males weren’t looking to take a young girl to the woods due to possible accusations.
Attending an 8 hour course as a mom of young kids (and I had my children fairly early in age) just wasn’t much of an option. I pulled my computer out.. a few taps of my finger… a card number.. SUBMIT… I was registered for an 8 hour hunters education class online and I had to discipline myself to complete it.