Outdoors: Youth Hunt Day allows kids to give it best shots

Some sportsmen spend months, years even, afield and never experience a hunt the likes of what 10-year-old Bobby Mazingo Jr. did last Saturday on Youth Hunt Day. The Bodkin Elementary School 5th grader was deep in the Dorchester County public marsh with his father Bobby. The pair began the memorable afternoon scouting, and came upon a small patch of woods that showed good signs of sikas.

The first glints of the gloaming began to swallow the expanse of cordgrass, loblollies and needlerush. The elder Mazingo knew his son's chances for success were fading almost as fast as the daylight. Then, about 45 minutes before sunset, the...