Hunters & Walkie Talkies
I rubbed my hands and hid below the top of the dying, uncut grass. I held the rifle, barrel down, safety on- remembering the slogan like gospel, “Every gun is loaded” even when it isn’t. (In my experience guns were more like a living thing than a machine. Emotionally, the bullet in the chamber had the potential to move and change the world if rightly used.) Following close behind my dad’s footsteps, I’d skip slightly to reach the next imprint in what was left of the snow. We were hunting for deer on Thanksgiving day.
Tracking through the fields and forests around my uncle’s house in Texas, we’d hoped to stumble upon a white tail or perhaps see some Turkeys. Being that I’d never shot a deer before and a squirrel was the closest I’d come to exercising any gun-powdered dominion over wildlife, I was more than enthusiastic about the prospect of bringing home a deer on Thanksgiving day. Skeptical though I was, my father’s experience and optimism was contagious, so I trekked on in his steps.
Quiet. Sitting in the still silence to wait for something outside of your control felt akin to prayer. While we waited for a deer, which never came, we waited like all the other creatures who depend on the given-ness of their next meal: “He opens his hand and satisfies the desire of every living thing (Psalm 145).” This was not the first time that my seeking to kill an animal for food turned the air, the field, and the forest into a sacred space. However, it was one that I would not soon forget.
Maybe it was the disappointment after so much expectation. It was as if something primordially echoed in me with the nagging fear that if my family were dependent on me to procure that deer as meat for us, I would have failed. So, what does that mean? Will I have what it takes to provide when the “deer” is an interview, a project, or a job prospect? I won’t lie, part of me wanted to show my mother, my sisters, and my cousins that I too could provide- even at the age of 13. I wanted to prove that like my dad, I had become a man, even if no one else considered me one at the time.
Thankfully, we had a full table to enjoy the fruit of our family’s labor beyond the field and forest that Thanksgiving Day. It’s been over 20 years since that morning in Texas with my dad. I’ve been through many interviews, applications, and full tables since then. It turns out that my manhood was not entirely dependent on that deer; however, it was undoubtedly shaped by the hunt.
Hunters appreciate silence. But when one hunts with a group or coordinates locates across a large swath of land, it helps to be able to communicate. That’s why DTR series two way radios are an ideal addition to your hunting team. Whether there are just two of you and you need to split up into two different directions, or you’re checking in with your buddies from across a couple acres of land, two way radios both promote safety and facilitate tactical logistics for hunting of all kinds.
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Motorola DTR Series two way radios use license free digital frequencies to provide outstanding audio quality and the ability to have either group conversations or individual conversations at the touch of a button. The Motorola DTR Series two-way radio uses 900 megahertz frequencies which are not compatible with traditional two way radios.
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