Author: TJ Schwanky
TJ Schwanky
T.J. Schwanky is one of Canada’s most prolific outdoor writers, penning nearly 1,500 articles since he began writing in 1986. He is also host and producer of Canada’s longest-running hunting television series, Outdoor Quest TV, now in its 24th season of broadcast on Sportsman Channel Canada. TJ has a passion for big game hunting and has hunted on six continents, but his real love is hunting sheep, elk, moose and deer in North America. He has taken a grand slam of North American sheep and has several animals in the record books with rifle and muzzleloader. TJ is recognized as an expert on mountain hunting and long-range shooting and lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. He hunts extensively with his partner, Vanessa Harrop, who also shares his passion for wild places.
I spend a fair amount of time lurking on hunting and shooting social media pages. To me, they are a guide as to what’s on sportsmen’s minds and what is of interest in the outdoor community. While many of the regular posters on these pages are gun and shooting enthusiasts with a vast knowledge of all things that go bang, there is another group caught up in many of the old myths and wives’ tales that plague shooting and hunting. In the same post, you can get a “Goldilocks-porridge” review of the identical bullet on a Whitetail deer. For one…