Terry... your story minds me of sommat... Dad was leading a cold weather survival course at Camp Aldershot, Nova Scotia in 1940 (he would take on recruits and run them through training there and then at Camp Aldershot, England and return on prisoner ships to start over) and live ammo was strictly forbidden.

First course he taught, he brought 3 live rounds and cracked a deer near the end of the course. Of course, he was found out and brought before the CO who would decide his fate and the obvious question was, "Why disobey a standing order?" Dad said that he felt it was only prudent to teach his men how to kill, gut, skin, and butcher an animal properly on a survival course.

His next course was arranged hastily... to teach other instructors these survival skills for inclusion in further courses. That was one of the reasons he made Lewey in about 8 months after signing up.

Now, I could tell you a story about Dad teaching me how to catch trout on a brook with a properly cut branch and birch bark, but I just gotta here how ya "tickle trout." I'd be much obliged, kind sir.