Q&A with our columnist
Ted Nugent
SPEAKING OUT ON HUNTING AND ROCK ’N’ ROLL
JEFF
MORRISON
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ur featured columnist Ted Nugent was gracious enough this past
fall to leave his hunting stand and sit down with Fish, Hunt & Ride
for a frank and informative Q&A session.
It’s not every day a small-town chap like myself has the good fortune to
talk with a personality like the Nuge and I took the occasion to heart,
coming-up with questions I felt would be of interest to both the hunting
and rock ’n’ roll community.
FHR Hey Ted, thanks for taking this opportunity to
chat with us, I know it’s an extremely important and
busy time of year for you. OK, so I realize your
hunting prowess has spanned the globe over several
decades, but is there one hunt in particular which
stands out from the rest as the most meaningful?
Ted All my life’s passions run very deep, and
amazingly after nearly 67 years of nonstop hunting,
it is impossible to pinpoint a #1 hunting experience
above all others. That being said, I will say however
that those many times I have been so humbly
blessed to be thought of and invited to take a
terminally ill child on their last hunt request in life
may very well represent the greatest gift a person
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can receive from another. To say that it is lifechanging and spiritually fortifying does not come
close to the powerful impact it has had on me and
my family. Those moving experiences will stay with
us forever.
FHR How do you maintain a musical career,
conservation career, home life, scads of recreational
hunting along with the many other irons you have in
the fire, yet remain balanced and (somewhat) sane?
Does your hectic schedule ever get the best of you,
or are you the kind who takes things in stride?
Ted Being 67 years clean and sober with damn
good genetics, with a sensible physical regimen and
a killer smart diet of wild game provides me a very
healthy, high energy condition to allow me to tackle
any and all of my passions and dreams. That I have
always surrounded myself with the very best people
possible, as you have witnessed working with my
personal assistant Linda, my team can move
mountains, and we do. Every individual from
management, Spirit of the Wild TV production,
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