Hunting bushytails is an ideal learner’s course to get youngsters excited about other types of game.
Mark Ingram, then 8 years old, lightly tapped on the squirrel call while Harold Knight intently studied the tops of several hickory trees 20 yards away.
My son and I had traveled to Kentucky to experience some mid-October bushytail hunting with Knight, and I couldn’t help but note the irony that a boy being introduced to hunting was doing the calling for one of the most well-known sportsmen and game-callers in the country. Soon my son’s tapping produced some agitated barking from a gray squirrel, and the silvertail began to dance in the treetops.
Knight, who along with partner David Hale operates Knight & Hale Game Calls, slowly eased his .22 rifle into position, squeezed off a shot, and the gray tumbled. Mark enthusiastically ran to retrieve his prize, and he and Harold beamed with pride as they congratulated each other for their respective roles in the act that had just played out. The veteran sportsman later said the episode was one of the few times in his life someone had called in a game animal for him. Knight strongly believes bushytails are the ideal starter game animal for youngsters who want to begin hunting.
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