This is the time of the year when I'm most nostalgic for the Eastern Shore...
That's why I will most definitely be adding Lindsay McCrum's Chicks With Guns to my Holiday wish list...
It may help fill the void left by the lack of gunshot ringing across the bay to wake me in the morn...
The lack of guys in head to toe camo grabbing sodas and Tastykakes in convenience stores...
Yeppers. Shoulda known I was in trouble when the movers refused to load our shotgun shells and bullets on the truck...
I'll just have to fill my li'l Igloo with some Chincoteague oysters and venison next trip home...
*Last two pics are of yours truly, sadly, but understandably, not featured in the book...
Kindness of Keep it Chic for the heads up on Chicks With Guns book and Tomboy Style for the Alexis Bittar camo sequined clutch find. Those prepneck gods work in mysterious but, fashionable ways...XXOO
you're Dadley's dream daughter, by the by... but while we're dishin', I have my hunters safety license and affinity for pheasant hunting.
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So, do ya have a camo bikini or a bright orange floro one? That book looks great. love the little campy clutch.
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You go girl!
ReplyDeleteAlice, I have a post about Chicks with Guns queued up for later this week. It's to show off my fabulous shooting instructor, featured on page 106. I hope you don't mind. :-)
ReplyDeleteHeck no Whitney! XXOO
ReplyDeletethe dead deer in the photo with you is NOT a legal size buck.... are you kidding me? - no longer a reader.
ReplyDeleteYou do get "Garden and Gun" magazine?
ReplyDeleteJust drive on over to New York state. We got more shotguns and pick-ups than you can shake a stick at. It's a demographic! We know how to tree a coon 'round here...and drink bourbon.
ReplyDeleteIs the one of you and Bambi at a petting zoo? *hopeful*
ReplyDeleteIn the state of Maryland, where I harvested this button buck, there is no size limit on deer which would include bucks.
ReplyDeleteThe definition in the state of Maryland for an antlered deer is, a deer with two or more points on one antler or, a deer with one antler 3" or more long measuring from the top of the skull.
So, my button buck was considered a non-antlered deer. All this verified with a quick call to a close friend who is a game warden in MD.
But, I honestly do appreciate your concern for wildlife conservation and hope you decide to stay a reader...XXOO
Sounds like such a FUN book...maybe they will come out with a book “Bloggers with Guns” and we can be featured along with Whitney!!! That clutch is perfect for a black tie soiree at a hunting lodge...LOVE it! The last image is a twin of mom...I will have to show her! xx
ReplyDeleteI don't see a gun near you in the deer pic. Still, I think that belongs in the book. Hunting and wildlife conservation can (and should) work together.
ReplyDeleteLOL..Bloggers with guns might put an end to the nasty commenters!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy kinda photos!
ReplyDeleteLove your website but very saddened that you equate killing and cruelty with fashion and lifestyle. Forward-thinking British aristocrats banned the hunt on their lands a century ago ... with your sense of aesthetics and your love of animals, how 'bout dropping the hunting season references next year?
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to get my wife to go shoot clays with me!
ReplyDeleteDeer hunting well,I feel if you're not going to eat don't shoot it.
We ate every morsel of meat, per usual. I have never liked ground beef always preferring ground venison. And, I'm assuming these are all vegetarians that I have up in arms here? XXOO
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of Bloggers With Guns. Better make it Preppy Bloggers With Guns. That way everyone will know to wear their pearls with the camo twin sets.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this has anything to do with being a vegetarian. I think it has more to do with the fact that this post seems so "out of (the) character" you portray on your blog.
ReplyDeleteMost women I know who hunt are like the few women I know who are really involved in the horse world. For the most part they are practical, low maintenance, hard working, tough, very independent women who don't particularly care about fashion or spending money and their dress reflects those sensibilities.
This is a vast generalization but it's just my observation. Like everyone, you have different facets of your personality, but I suspect all the girly girls who read this and are only interested in shopping, spending money, looking pretty, and spending more money while shopping for something some blogger told them they HAVE TO HAVE are going to be slightly shocked. Certainly you expected that reaction?
Wow, I too am surprised. Long term lurker, first-time poster, adore your style -- but there's nothing stylish and chic about hunting for sport. It's as bad as being a tacky Texan. I'm really quite shocked that someone with your sensibilities would find this chic and tasteful.
ReplyDeleteLove your blog and am a loyal reader, but I understand the anti-hunting hoopla. We all know you're an animal lover (with two of the MOST precious kitties), so it's a bit sad to see that buck photo. Like Paul McCartney said about animals he had previously hunted, "I realized as I watched him fight for his breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me."
ReplyDeleteOk I have to make one more comment.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a hunter and never particularly cared for the "sport" of it. (Seems to me if the animals have guns too, then it's a sport). Some people need to hunt because that's how they eat.
However, I could make the argument that hunting is much more humane than the way most of us get our meat. Animals grown in this country have miserable lives and horrible deaths. Anyone who educates themself about this will find it difficult to eat a piece of meat, pork or chicken after reading the conditions most of these animal endure on our factory farms. And no, I'm not a PETA fanatic; just someone who is becoming a "mostly" vegetarian.
A bit of deer hunting edification...XXOO
ReplyDeletePerspectives on Deer Hunting
I live on a large farm on the Eastern Shore of Md. and though I am not a hunter, I thank those who belong to our gun club. Without the culling and thinning of the herd diseases quickly take over. Being able to give away meat to help fill the freezer with several deer, ducks and geese is what gets many of the less fortunate people in the community through. Yes it is a sport, and I am happy to see my husband and sons spending time in a duck blind passing on a family tradition. I look forward to checking out the book and know that photos of my sons grandmothers and great grandmothers would look right at home (in their Abercrombie or LL Bean gear-some of which has lasted 75+ years) with these cool chicks !
ReplyDeleteWoot woot for my homegirl. And, oh how I miss a winter freezer full of stacked white packaging...XXOO
ReplyDeleteI never used to "get" hunting, thinking it to be cruel. I still don't understand the bloodlust some hunters exhibit, but I no longer have a problem with standard, non-cheating hunting. However, the loud noises have kept (and always will keep) me from it!
ReplyDeleteGood for you for sharing this. Its not going to be everyone's cup of tea but I realize that the meat I eat started somewhere and as long as you are hunting within the legal regulations and are eating your harvest, really more power to you!
ReplyDeleteKilling for sport is not necessary. I am not impressed, nor am I areader of your blog as of now.
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Allie - didn't you post the photo of you with the buck last year? I don't recall such a ruckus (or is my memory selective?).
ReplyDeleteI know all to well about the deer over-population problem in northern Baltimore County and, to a lesser extent, in Montgomery County.
None of the comments here...the reasonably well thought out ones and the baseless ones should surprise anyone. They certainly don't shock me. Guns and dead animals always galvanize and polarize people.
ReplyDeleteThe escalation/fabrication/silly interpretation of what you said/illustrated/didn't say/didn't support visually is predictably absurd. Hunters are generally some of the best conservationists on the planet. Again, generally, hunters eat are see to it that what they kill is eaten...the abide by rules re seasonal hunting and limits. They are good stewards of the land.
Certainly some of the British "Shooting Party" customs needed reforming but frankly, just as with Fox Hunting, the real issue in Britain re hunting...both with gun and/or foxhound was a class envy/class warfare issue.
Shit. The convoluted and poorly articulated disdain for this post is silly. Unless the dissenters are true vegans. And that on it's own is silly. Otherwise, the "me not likey this story" commenters need to understand that anytime they bite into a piece of meat, an animal was killed to accommodate their protein bolus. And there is no such thing as "humane killing"
Nite nite.
Vegetarian, you bet... For most of my life, since I was capable of getting what Paul McCartney meant in the quote one of your other loyal readers cited:
ReplyDelete"I realized as I watched him fight for his breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me."
Think about it, y'all. You can get the "protein bolus" (see reader above) without causing pain and fear. You love your kitties ... their smarts and sensitivities are also resident in the deer that you target with your rifle. I am the grand-daughter of the Brits who banned the hunt from their land. It was not an easy decision -- socially or practically. But the decision stood the test of time and was honored.
I think what lit up the website this year is that your posting of last year did not quite so blatantly turn "hunt" into fashion statement.
We are all evolving ... and don't mean to sound condemnatory -- or scolding. I still love much of what you post.
"Guns and dead animals always galvanize and polarize people."
ReplyDeleteSO true. But given the title and selected text above, we confront two more volatile notions around guns: Women ["chicks"] and Motherhood [see pic woman holding baby AND gun]. I wonder if at primitive levels in our brains, we aren't role-wired that Mothers protect, Fathers defend - that notion alone would account for so much knee-jerk revulsion. While women being capable of handling guns is not new, the glamorizing of women with firearms is a bold new frontier. And obviously a very interesting topic for discussion.
-Flo
FYI, a lot of the sound shore clubs offer skeet and trap shooting. You can beach AND shoot ;-)
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, it is impossible to please everyone all the time. Stay yourself!
ReplyDeleteI would love to find a gal that hunts, particularly one that duck/bird hunts. They seem to be pretty rare nowadays.
ReplyDeleteWelp, I'm already taken but, if ya go to the Eastern Shore of Maryland there's a plenty. Nuthin' rings in Christmas morn like watching the sun rise from a duck blind ;)
ReplyDeleteNow, how did I miss this post? Good girl!
ReplyDeleteMissing your blogging, I just happened upon your required reading section which I somehow missed. Unfortunately, Gwynnie seems to have gone over to the dark side regarding all things p.c. and is most assuredly anti-gun. Ugh. She writes a mean cookbook though!