BLAZE Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 17

What’s your favorite firearm today? I have a Howa .243 bolt action that I’ve used for years and love. My children gave it to me for a Christmas present. I just got a Weatherby GH2 [GirlsHunt2] rifle, a bolt action and I really like it, too. It’s also a .243, and I’ve been taking it hog hunting. No hog—yet! annual membership event: kayaking, camping, ax throwing, fishing. Within a couple of years, we noticed that the firearms offerings—at our Classic and other events—really filled up a lot faster than other offerings. They would take the introductory firearms course at the Classic and then the Shotgun Clinic in the summer, and then they’d be all about wanting to go shooting and hunting. How did you come to found OWU? It really started back in 1998, when I we