A Summer Hunt

During the summer, most sportsmen spend their time on or around the water. A few target trout in appropriate streams, and fishing for smallmouth and largemouth bass hits it peak during the summer months.

Most sportsmen do not think much about hunting during the summer. Hoping to locate a monster buck or two, a few diehard deer hunters are out glassing farm fields. Other than that, hunters do not do a whole lot during the summer.

That was not always true. A dedicated cadre of sportsmen spent summer days, often afternoons and evenings, set up for long-distance shooting across harvested farm f...