Kristie Swenstad was napping in the back of plywood deer blind on a cold fall morning when her father nudged her awake and handed her a shotgun.super game
She was 12.
“I was excited because I was doing what my dad did,” she said. “I was going to help fill the freezer.”
Ms. Swenstad is 36 now. A former high school basketball star and homecoming queen, she owns a tailor shop in Alexandria, a little lake town 130 miles northwest of Minneapolis. And she wants more people to understand the beauty and challenge of hunting for your supper.
That’s why on a frosty October morning, I was crouched next to her inside a canvas blind designed to look vaguely like a hay bale. She had a shotgun in her hand and turkey on her mind.
ImageTurkey hunters sometimes hide in ground blinds, like this one that is designed to look something like a bale of hay.Credit...Dan Koeck for The New York TimesImageAlthough Ms. Swenstad prefers to hunt with a bow and arrow, she used a shotgun to take a turkey on a recent morning.Credit...Dan Koeck for The New York TimesThe lean birds she was hunting are about as much like big-breasted Thanksgiving turkeys as a slice of aged Cheddar is like a Kraft single. As a holiday centerpiece, their lean carcasses would disappoint most Americans.
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