Excerpt to Born to Hunt “Mule deer chose me early, both buck and doe, in the last week of the first Montana hunting season I could legally purchase a tag. I’d followed the grown men in years before, sometimes packing my Daisy Red Ryder, wondering why they didn’t shoot the deer across the valley when their rifles were so much more powerful than my BB gun. Then I started shooting rifles, first .22 rimfires and eventually .30 calibres of various hues, and with the conceit of youth (and the purchase of my first deer tag) dreamed of killing grey deer far across valleys.

It did not happen like that.”