Episode #234 (ARCHIVE DIVE #3): It's That Time of Deer

My first deer. Brother John (R) would go on to become the true woodsman of the family. I would go on to do a lot of typing.

Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 234. This one’s subscribers only free in honor of the “OKAYEST HUNTER” podcast. Click the player above to listen.

In this episode I head down to the pole barn and dig out a goofball essay I wrote in 1992 about how I wasn’t the greatest hunter ever. I had forgotten I’d even written it, so as I read it, I’ll be rediscovering it in real time right along with you.

Mmmm…venison.

Forward,
Mike

“THE MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE SERIOUS TROPHY DEER HUNTER” (They let me write for them anyway.)

A successful season in the late 1980s (I can tell by my mustache). My uncle got the big one. Grandpa got skunked, thus the finger-horns. Dad and my two brothers rounding things out.

Up in the stand, out on the back forty, working on The Jesus Cow.

Inside joke…

The real reason for the season.

This one warmed my heart. Post by a reader of his daughter in the deer stand with a copy of The Scavengers. (Smiley face placed by me out of respect for privacy.)

MARGINALIA

Relevant excerpt from the hunting chapter in Truck:

And another:

And finally, a couple of scribbles I made in the margins of Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison:

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Not available in blaze orange, but ready for cooler weather, we have Peaceful Persistence T-shirts in long sleeve now.

Braided Creek (see marginalia above) is available at BookShop.org and Amazon.com. (Law requires me to let you know we catch a little commission if you order through those links. Are we good, law?)

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