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Most anyone who's published stories online or in print,

and especially anyone who has self-published, has gotten calls or emails

like the ones a guy named Kevin Detler started getting a few years back.

Kevin, now in his very early 70s, but at that point in his late 60s, is a soybean farmer

from South Dakota who loves to hunt.

If it walks in North America and can be hunted,

Kevin has almost certainly shot it. And if it was magnificent enough, he also probably

had it stuffed and mounted and put on display in a restaurant he used to own. It's called

appropriately, Trophies Steakhouse.

Truth is, Kevin loved to talk about hunting and stuffing critters so much that he self-published a book in 2012 called Hunting, You've Got to Be Kidding, which he describes in his own

promotional copy as a humorous and emotional story of his endeavor to achieve what only 120 hunters in the world had accomplished.

In the harsh Arctic wilderness, one man begins on a quest beyond hunting to complete the North American 29.

That being a successful kill of all 29 big game species in North America, also known as the Super Slam.

That number as of late 2025 was actually 272 hunters.

In the list of 29, if you're curious, like me, includes five types of deer, four kinds of bear,

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