Taking a Life

Series: Deer Stories
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Length: 00:03:43

In this show, hunters talk about the experience of taking an animal's life Read the full description.
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Hunters reflect on the experience of taking an animal?s life, which some describe as a feeling of elation mixed with grief.

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