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once did, guests continue to have reciprocal rights with Fairmont’s luxe Chateau Montebello just down the road. All that is moot, of course,


as I try hitting these elusive clay pigeons – which, if truth be told, look more like orange Frisbees than any bird. Fortunately my guide,


Michel Touchette, is a patient man. He needs to be. Up to four-fifths of the folks he guides through the course are novices. Women are often better than men, he says. “The men think they know


it all. The women pay attention.” (Youth, who’ve grown up with video games, are also quick learners, he adds.) I may be a man, but I pay


close attention, starting with an introductory briefing inside a cabin built for a movie set – it was Ernest Hemingway’s Wisconsin writing cabin for the 1996 movie Love and War. Given Hemingway’s image as a


KENAUK NATURE, STAFFED WITH WILDLIFE EXPERTS, HAS ITS OWN FISH HATCHERY. TROUT, BASS AND PIKE ARE ABUNDANT IN THE


RESORT’S 60 LAKES AND STREAMS. Photo: Fairmont Hotels


sportsman, this seems appropriate. Touchette tells me how to


handle the firearm safely and how to aim.


“It’s not like a handgun, not


like firing at a fixed bullseye,” he says. “You have to follow a moving target along the barrel, keep moving the gun, and fire while you’re still moving it. Don’t stop tracking the target.” Easier said than done. Out on the course I hit nothing during my


tour of the nine stations thoughtfully spread out in the woods. When I get to a station called Springing Teal, I figure my failure is understandable. Springing, I think, can’t mean easy. But when I miss three attempts at the “Rabbit in Slow Motion,” I’m ready to quit. Slow motion, indeed. But I admit it was fun, and that’s the point, Newell says. About 80 per


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