Going Trad: Out There with Elkheart

HUNTING/WILDERNESS/WILDLIFE If the question is: 'Who is a dyed-in-the wool, one-of-us, blood-letting yet life-trea- suring, highly ethical traditional bowhunter who enjoys the moment, argues the point, breaks trail and helps others along that trail by thinking and writing extraordinarily well?' the answer is David "Elkheart" Petersen. In fact, Petersen not only wrote the book on all of that and more, several times over, he lives it as well. The well-crafted stories and hands-on advice to be found in Petersen's latest book, Going Trad, not only offer hours of armchair reading delight for veteran as well as novice traditional bowhunters, these pages also provide a rare depth of information and inspiration for those who want to get out there and experience the thrills, challenges and rewards of traditional-values hunting on their own. "David Petersen is part of the wild, wooded Colorado Rockies, an elk spy as well as an Elkheart." -Ted Williams "When field observations are as well described as David Petersen's are... they open up new insights even to scientists." -Valerius Geist, Ph.D. "A former Marine pilot and current backwoods intellectual, idealist, iconoclast and, yes, hunter, Dave Petersen defies categorization as adroitly as his terrific prose." -Don Thomas