At that time when the movies were produced it is hard for us hunters to realize that our hunting heritage was at its peak. With plenty of hunters afield. Family members participating in hunting and fresh game for supper was part of a yearly ritual. I can remember stories of my father talking about how him and his brothers would go out hunting rabbits in the freezing cold. They would chase the rabbit out of his hole and try to catch them with their bare hands. I will definitely make sure I write the full accounts of those stories before he passes on, to share with the rest of you. But it seems like society as a whole is detached from the meaning of hunting and what peace and solitude it brings. The shared hunting stories is what Robert Wegner reverberates and gets across very romantically throughout his book. Of how a hunting story cleanses the soul and digs deep inside to reflect and understand our primordial past as a predator.

The Life of a Hunter: Catching a Tartar

I have not known no other man to be so passionate about the prey he hunts. Robert Wegner has dedicated his whole life to hunting deer. He is considered the father of all deer hunting historians. Rightly so if you ever get a chance read his other books the deer and deer hunting trilogy. When I first fell in love with hunting he is one of the pivotal charachter in my life that taught me what it means to be a hunter. It is not in the act of shooting game that I get my most enjoyment but just the climax of the hunt. It is kneeling down to God and thanking him for the hunt. Which ever God we pray to it is of utmost importance we do not lose our way as the predator. It is what has molded and shaped our society to who we are without hunting stories we have no way to cleanse our souls as our ancestors have.

I would like to thank Robert Wegner for writing from his heart. He is the true hero of our hunting heritage. I hope to one day to watch a film that uses his research as the primary catalyst to save and promote our ever diminishing tradition.

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Defining what the modern hunter is can be rather difficult in this day and age. With the technology at our fingertips it not only makes us more informed but allows us to rethink our ethics and ideals online with other hunters. The first word that comes to mind is savvy, hi-tech, more informed and more vested than the grandfathers and grandmothers of hunting.

So in order to understand what it is to hunt we need to understand those that have already ensured our tradition. Those grandparents of hunting we are indebted to. They facilitated and ensured a ever lasting tradition. Back in the 1800′s they came to a critical crossroad either they formed conservation societies or we would lose one of the many iconic animals of the United States and that is the whitetail deer. Due to the fur trade the whitetail deer went from near extinction to today with a thriving population. The odocoileus virginianus known as the White-tailed deer would not be around today if it was not for their efforts in ensuring the future of the old stag of the forest. With laws now set in place we are in a better position to understand cervid ecology.

Although they have paved the road and set laws in place and formed strong ethics the fight to maintain whitetail deer hunting tradition is not over with, far from over with. The problem that faces many of us hunters is what is ethical and what is unethical. It has created a division among hunters that is deeply rooted and will need to be addressed. It can be seen on many forums, articles and publications. In order for us to ensure our tradition we as hunters need to come to a common ground. We need to accept the society we live in and we need to form a strong bond with the public at large. These “things” will ensure the whitetail deer hunting tradition for generations to come.

Being honest with ourselves is critical into knowing who we are as hunters, what defines our ethics, who we get our research from, is that research selling us a product. Back in the 1800′s it came to the critical point but what we have now is a open unlimited form of communication between hunters. If we harness that we can flesh out our indifference to ensure whitetail deer hunting is around for our grand children. These things make me the modern day hunter. They make you the modern day hunter. It is so much more than ecology, more than learning deer behavior it is the act of being involved in conservation and conversation to ensure the future of hunting.

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