Life Of A Woodsman

The Hungry Dog Hunts The Best

Story

Bill Woodsman

I have found that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. - Mark Twain

Ihave often wondered why it is that during eat beanie weanies, sardines, cheese, bologna and other the period I think I feel mysterious foods that come most active, I seem to gain in small, round cans, invarithe most weight. It has been ably packed in oil or grease my contention that during to tempt the tastebuds and hunting season when I am fill the tummy. By the time either hunting quail or out I get home thoroughly exin the duck blind or doing hausted from sitting and ridsomething very active, I ing the back roads in a four should maintain my weight by four, I am usually starvor lose some. By the time ing. Needless to say, I fail to spring gets here, I am usucomprehend the fact that ally 15 or 20 pounds overI have already consumed weight and must go on a over 8,000 calories and exrather strict diet. I am now pended approximately 400. on one of my diet binges Be that as it may, all hunters and, while counting calohave to come in very hungry ries, I have discovered that and tired, and I assure my perhaps there is some reawife that I am no different, son behind the apparent and I sit down to a full fourfolly that has occurred durcourse supper. ing the winter. Dr. Billy Ogden and his black Lab, Babe. Thank God I only hunt

During one of my early once or twice a week durmorning excursions to hunt turkeys, I had ample oping the season because if I hunted more, I would weigh portunity to refuse a large number of calories but in the neighborhood of 500 pounds. I would probably failed! I went along with the crowd and consumed a be as mystified as ever wondering how in the world a number of calories not in keeping with my activity levbusy, hard-hunting guy like me could ever get so fat. el. It will remain a mystery to me why a hunter needs to eat 6,000 calories for breakfast when he is going to expend 150 sitting beneath a tree waiting for a turkey to gobble by. All hunters seem to do this as part of a ritual. I admit that, while a cup of coffee and piece of toast would suffice, I prefer the preserves, the biscuits, the fried and scrambled eggs, the fried potatoes, the

The more we look into it, I am afraid the more surprised and disappointed we become. Perhaps if I made a rule that I ate only what I shot in one day, no doubt I would be known as “slim Woodsman.” What’s more, I might even become a better hunter…hunger has a funny way of making the hungry dog work! sausage, the milk, the orange juice and other goodies typical of a hunter’s early morning feast. After a very long and tedious sit beneath a tree, hunger dictates a 10 o’clock run to the local store to discuss our successes or failures and indulge in a honey bun, some nabs and a Pepsi-Cola. By 11:30 or 12 we then must go ahead and “Bill Woodsman” was born in 1954 when eighth grader Billy Ogden created his nom de plume “Willie the Woodsman.” He wrote weekly hunting articles for his all boys junior high school in Macon, Georgia. When Dr. Ogden entered college and medical school, “Willie” matured into “Bill” as he has continued to write about the sports of hunting and fishing.

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