Although I grew up in a family that had no interest in the shooting sports, I've been hunting for as long as I can remember.  As a kid I'd make slingshots for my neighbourhood chums, and we'd head down to the creek after English sparrows, starlings, and grackles.  In my early twenties I moved to the Prairies and have never been happier.

I'm a rifleman, but I like to match the 'firearm' to the species being hunted.  I encourage the use of any legal means to take varmint species.  For me that includes bows, spears (including atlatls and harpoons), slings, airguns, shotguns, throwing sticks, throwing nets, sophisticated pea shooters, slingshots--the list goes on.

For years I've wanted to record my hunting.  Now, in my later years, I am finding my video camera particularly enjoyable and have been filming videos for this site.

 Welcome--

Calling ALL VARMINT HUNTERS!  Feel free to use the forum to write about your exploits and great days of varmint hunting.  I don't know about you, but it makes my day to hear a good tale (and see some good pictures).  I'll be concentrating on the crows for the next couple of weeks as I get ready for a multi-day beaver hunt on the river during the middle of May.  I'll be taking a few pictures and enough video for a short clip in my next DVD.

A little bit of information:  the free sample clips on this website are not from the DVD.  They are clips I didn't include in my DVD.  "The Season Never Ends" DVD is hunting!  The clips are interesting extra footage that you can view for free.  Enjoy 'em!

My two-hour DVD, The Season Never Ends  is available for ordering online.  The final touches to the video were done by the guys that made Winter Magic (one of whom is a professional video guy).  Winter Magic is a video about coyote and fox hunting.  Do a search on the web if you're interested (in my opinion you should be).  I think it's very well done (I'm in it)--but read the reviews! 

Over the Easter weekend we were at the Calgary, Alberta gun show.  I met many keen varmint hunters, and I enjoyed telling some of my hunting stories and listening to many hunters' tales told by those who took the time to chat with me.  We sold many DVDs of The Season Never Ends and many Crit'R-Calls.  The comments continue to be quite favorable.  Some purchasers returned the second day to say how much they enjoyed it.  Again, the video is available on this site and covers some of the many varmints that I hunt year-round.  I'm fortunate in that I can hunt varmints 365 days of the year (well, maybe 364 because I've never hunted on Christmas day).  So...off to the normal stuff...

WELCOME to the A.W.O.L. Hunting Varmints website.  A.W.O.L. Hunting Varmints focuses on aspects of varmint hunting.  If an animal is considered a varmint where you live, it's probably appropriate for this site.  Where I live coyotes, foxes, beavers, crows, and gophers are the primary varmints.  However, many other animals would also fit into the varmint category, such as pigeons, carp, black birds, and grasshoppers.  There are many more.

I chose A.W.O.L. Hunting Varmints as the name of the website because I'm one of those people that could spend nearly every day out hunting or shooting.  A.W.O.L., in military jargon, means Absent With Out Leave.  At home, that's me sometimes.  I'd rather hunt varmints than just about anything else.  In fact, I tend to let other responsibilities wait for another day when an opportunity to hunt or shoot arises.  Some might say that I should be old enough to know better but, personally, I think I'll always be too young to resist. 

Although we are still and maybe always will be "Under Construction" (as we build and improve), I hope you will feel that you have arrived at one of the best online sources of media and information for varmint hunting techniques and practices.  Feel free to browse our hunting videos, our clips of scenes that didn't make it into our full-length video, our online store, our photo gallery, the forum, and/or our articles.  Feel free to tell us your great stories or just ask some questions on the forum.  And, please, drop us a line when you have something to share with me privately:  KenE@awolhuntingvarmints.com.

 Note:  Please send us feedback, especially about glitches on the site, so that we can mend those glitches as quickly as possible.  You can reach me anytime at KenE@awolhuntingvarmints.com.

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