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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Carl McGlothlin, 31, of Amissville, is a world-class | bow hunter who travels several times a year to hunt big game in the western United States, Canada and Mexico.
“Once you’ve taken an animal with a bow, it seems too easy with a gun,” he said.
An archer must be within 40 to 50 yards to hit a target, but with no trees and little vegetation hunting in the western states is much more challenging. “Out west, it is more marksmanship than hunting,” said Carl.
Thomas Jefferson, who displayed mounted trophy heads at Monticello, would no doubt appreciate Carl’s decorating. A cougar stands, poised to jump from his perch on the wall. Enormous moose, elk caribou, antelope, bear, white-tail deer and wild boar heads stare out with glassy eyes from the McGlothlin’s family room and study.
Pope and Young, a national registry in Minnesota, keeps track of the 27 species of North American large game that archers kill. They assign a score to each archer based on the size of the animal.
Five animals must be accepted before the registry officially recognizes a bow hunter. Carl is listed and he _ said he passes by smaller animals in hopes of finding larger ones on a hunt. His elk, huge in comparison to white-tail deer, scored a 351, while the world record is 404.
The cougar, or mountain lion, although found in Virginia, is illegal to hunt here, but in New Mexico a license can be bought over the counter, said Carl.
The hardest animal to hunt, hfe insists, is the wild turkey here in Rappahannock.
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