In 1982, for example, 16.7 million Americans spent a collective $259 million on hunting licenses and fees. Averaged out, that’s about $15.50 apiece. In 2003, 14.7 million hunters spent a total of $679.8 million, or about $46.12 each. Costs more than tripled in twenty-one years, much faster than the rate of inflation: Figures obtained from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Hunting License Report, published December 2, 2004, and available at http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/Subpages/LicenseInfo/Hunting.htm. Inflation calculated by West Egg at www.westegg.com/inflation.
the wealth of the average hunter is also on the rise: 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, available at http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov.
Ernest Hemingway used to worry that if American men stopped hunting, they would cease to be men: Hemingway’s views about hunting and masculinity are efficiently illustrated in his short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Paul D. Staudohar, ed., Hunting’s Best Short Stories (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000), 41–74.
Wallace Stegner, “Coda: Wilderness Letter,” in The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West (New York: Penguin, 1980), 147.
CONTENTS
Welcome
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter 1: Going West
Chapter 2: Pulling the Trigger
Chapter 3: Gun-Shy
Chapter 4: Pull
Chapter 5: Guts
Chapter 6: First Kill
Chapter 7: Off the Mark
Chapter 8: Wild Tastes
Chapter 9: Good Dog, Bad Wolf
Chapter 10: Friends for Dinner
Chapter 11: Year of Death
Chapter 12: Killing Bambi, Reviving Artemis
Chapter 13: Deer Diary
Chapter 14: Big Game
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Copyright
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