UNCOMMON PURSUITS ON COMMON GROUND
I detest dinner parties, partly because they never seem to include interesting people. I may have to attend, but I will not be talking about football, golf or the Kardashians. Politics is a subject that just results in a fight. Besides, it annoys my wife when we leave early with a wave of curse words chasing us out the door. The closest I have come to a conversation about hunting with my neighbors is when one lady sarcastically asked, “Is there anything you won’t hunt?”
“Nope.”
“Really?”
“If it’s legal I’ll hunt it.”
That concluded the conversation.
My attitude toward hunting anything, though, has led to some grand adventures. Here are three “offbeat” hunts on public land that are well worth doing if you want to try something different.
ELK OF THE EASTERN SHORE
Sika deer are native to Asia and in fact are not deer at all, but instead are elk. Little elk to be sure; the stags run about 90 pounds and the females about 70 pounds. They bugle like elk but with a different pitch. And unlike most elk, sika live in swampy areas. Sika were turned loose on the Maryland coast in the early
