BY TYLER FRANTZ "It's better to be lucky than good." That's an expression we've all heard a time or two, especially in hunting circles when someone fills a tag. It's often a fitting adage. After all, who wouldn't accept good fortune, even if it came by chance? In the mid-2000s, I was blessed with a rare opportunity to be both lucky and good, when I walked away from NOVEMBER 2020 a Ducks Unlimited fundraising event with paperwork in hand for two brand new firearms. Luck came from a raffle ticket that won me a Mossberg .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (HMR), a hot new varmint caliber touted as flat-shooting, fast and accurate. The "good" played out with a deck of cards in a high-low challenge. Still fresh from a four-year 53