The NRA votes Richard Childress into a key role

  
From polar bears in the Artic, to wild sheep in Mongolia, car owner Richard Childress is a hunter's hunter (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
  

   By Mike Mulhern
   mikemulhern.net

   POCONO, Pa.
   Richard Childress, one of NASCAR's biggest hunters, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Rifle Association.
   Childress, from Winston-Salem, N.C., has hunted from Alaska to Africa to Mongolia and is next headed to Turkey.