Out Our Way: Cecil's Winchester - Zechariah 2:8-9

Out our way, aside from a few coyotes and the occasional mountain lion, we didn't see many predators. But it's not the same everywhere. Years ago riding on the Empire ranch in the "Wyobraska" panhandle, there were a lot of coyotes around. Riding with the owner one day, he pointed out that when he rode with his Winchester, the coyotes took off at his approach. But, he pointed out, the various Angus and longhorns he was raising did not - and even the calves tended to be relaxed. Both the coyotes and calves knew Cecil.

Cecil was a dead-eye shot and many a coyote pelt ended stretched out when they...