Hunters do cry

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, dozens of strangers gathered together in the woods for three straight days. Their mission? Teach people of color how to kill, gut, and butcher a deer for the first time. Producer Felix Poon was there as a first-time hunter. He wanted to know: what does it feel like to take an animal's life to sustain your own? Given the opportunity… would he pull the trigger? In this episode we follow Felix out of his depth and into the woods, to find out if one weekend can convert a longtime city-dweller into a dedicated deer hunter. Featuring Dorothy Ren, Brandon Dale, and Brant MacDuff. SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our newsletter (it’s free!). Follow Outside/In on Instagram or join our private discussion group on Facebook. LINKS Lydia Parker, executive director of Hunters of Color, discusses how to make the outdoors more equitable. (The Nature Conservancy) Melissa Harris-Perry talks to Brandon Dale, the New York ambassador for the Hunters of Color organization, on WNYC’s The Takeaway. CREDITS Host: Nate Hegyi Reported, produced, and mixed by Felix Poon Edited by Taylor Quimby, with help from Rebecca Lavoie. Our staff also includes Justine Paradis Taylor Quimby is our Executive Producer Rebecca Lavoie is NHPR’s Director of On-Demand Audio. Music for this episode by Blue Dot Sessions, Hanna Lindgren, and Walt Adams. Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio Submit a question to the “Outside/Inbox.” We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to outsidein@nhpr.org or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is that on speaker?
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:07.0	Hey, Nate Hedgy.
0:10.0	How are you?
0:11.0	I'm good.
0:12.0	I'm in the car with Taylor he's driving.
0:13.6	Hey!
0:14.6	So a couple of months ago producer Felix Poon called me on his way to upstate New York.
0:20.6	I've been getting flashes of nervousness like over the past couple of weeks, and then a flash
0:26.6	of excitement last night.
0:29.1	Part of me wishes that we don't see any deer this weekend. I guess that man.
0:34.0	I've had that feeling before.
0:36.0	I've had that feeling.
0:37.0	Felix is 41.
0:42.0	He's never killed an animal, never shot a gun.
0:45.0	But here he was, headed up state to go on his first ever hunting trip.
0:50.0	But picking up hunting isn't like picking up jogging. It's a commitment. There's
0:56.1	gear, licenses, safety courses, and there's a culture to hunting. 97% of people who hunt in America are white.
1:05.0	That's according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
1:08.0	That can be enough for Felix or any other person of color
1:11.0	to see hunting and think,
1:13.0	eh, no thanks.
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