Ted Nugent: Bowhunter Hall Of Famer

I saw Ted Nugent three years ago at the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards in Las Vegas, where he revealed the name of the major tour award winner by opening the envelope it was sealed in with a large knife.

More awards will be given out in Vegas on Friday night, but this time Nugent will be on the receiving end. He'll be bestowed with two honours acknowledging his skills as an outdoorsman and his promotion of bowhunting on an international level via his best-selling books and popular writings.

The "Texas Wildman" will also be inducted into the National Bowhunters Hall Of Fame as part of the National Field Archery Association's World Archery Festival at the Riviera Hotel.

"I started twanging the one-string 'bout the same time as the six-string," the 60-year-old rock guitarist says. "There was some sort of bow and arrow in my hands as young as six or seven, I'm sure.

"Got my first guitar around the same time and both have remained my favourite weapons to date!"

One of the ways Nugent gets the word out about bowhunting and other causes he supports is through a column he writes for the Tribune-Herald, a newspaper in the Texas city of Waco that was the home of another noted weapons enthusiast, Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh, who perished with 75 of his followers when his compound was raided by the FBI after a 51-day siege in 1993.

Nugent published his new year's resolutions in his Jan. 11 Tribune-Herald column. Here are five of them:

"Continue to give away many National Rifle Association memberships to the deserving."

"Give away many guns and much ammo to loving family and friends."

"Buy another machine gun and pallets of ammo for myself, and shoot till I can't stand it anymore."

"Raise as much hell as I can to expose the dangerous, counterproductive lies of the global-warming fraud."

"Jam louder and more ferociously on my guitars as a musical prayer to create the ultimate soundtrack for the U.S. military heroes to finally wrap up this war on terror, which they are ready, willing and able to do if only the spineless, dysfunctional bureaucrats would just unleash them to do so."