Women have been active hunters for decades, yet haven’t gotten the attention they deserve until recently. Social media has propelled the achievements of some women into the stratosphere, sometimes with negative consequences. Oddly, when women step from their stereotype, a segment of the public cannot accept their choices and have reacted violently, sometimes with near criminal intent.
Huntress Julie McQueen presents an excellent role model for women in the outdoors and speaks to her current lifestyle in this OutdoorHub interview.
Julie McQueen is the co-host of Brotherhood Outdoors and a producer for Backstage & Backroads Productions. Her passion for hunting and sharing the outdoors with others is evident from her on-camera time and social media pages. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Julie about her favorite kind of hunting, superpowers, and working side-by-side with her husband.
Britney: Please tell us a little about your background in the outdoors. Who introduced you to hunting and fishing?
Julie: I grew up on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma where there are plenty of ponds to fish, so that was my main attractant to the outdoors. My parents met in the Army, so it was ingrained in me from a young age [how to] shoot, clean, and properly handle firearms. I didn’t have anyone around to take me hunting when I was young, so when I became old enough to take myself hunting, I did just that. I bought some hunting magazines and learned what I could from them. I borrowed a 7mm Magnum for my first deer season, and sat alone in the woods all day until a buck walked by. I harvested him, and then had to figure out what the next step was. It was different back then—I couldn’t just Google it on a smartphone. I learned by trial and error.
