What makes the hunting experience special? What compels us to pursue this strange hobby? In this book the author attempts to answer these questions from his own personnal, real life experiences and the experiences of his family and friends. More than just a compilation of hunting tales, the stories inside illustrate important moral points about life that only the hunting experience can provide. Further, the focus of the stories (at least most of them) is on the PLACES rather the people. THEY are the stars of the stories as the hunters move on and through them over time. The places change the hunters and the places themselves change inexorably over time - and not all for the better. Do not expect tales of grand and expensive foriegn safaris. No, rather, this is the hunting of common men who, having lived at a unique and special place in time and geography, had the priviledge of a degree of freedom and opportunity rare in human history and becoming increasingly rare today. So for a read of hunting adventures which are recognizable to every person who has stepped outdoors to hunt, put this book in your backback for the next time you are on the stand on a long, listless day. The stories are designed by a hunter for hunters to be read while keeping one eye on the brush just in case. Because you never know when "lightening is going to strike."