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Antlers

Stories from the Heart of the Hunt

Marty D Short

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English
Cache Canyons Publishing
19 September 2025
Antlers: Stories From the Heart of the Hunt

How do you feel about big game hunting? Many see it as a crude relic of an unenlightened past. Most hunters have a list of well reasoned justifications for pursuing and harvesting big game animals that they can recite with conviction. Seeking trophy antlers is not usually at the top of a list of socially correct rationales. However, serious hunters would be lying if they said antlers did not have something to do with their drive to spend a great deal of time and money in such a physically demanding avocation.

For most hunters, though, there is something more-

Antlers is an anthology of three fictional stories that explore some of the more nuanced and subjective reasons that hunters will always hunt. These underlying motives are seldom articulated or openly acknowledged, but they exert a gravity-like force that pulls hunters into the field, year after year.

The relatable characters you will meet in these stories are not immune to trophy seeking tendencies but they all either possess or discover something deeper and far more meaningful than just antlers that calls them to the chase.
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Imprint:   Cache Canyons Publishing
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   349g
ISBN:   9798999007605
Pages:   258
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Marty Short has spent a lifetime hunting and fishing, backpacking, horse packing, and just drifting in the mountains and steppes of the west, building a wealth of memories of wild places, adventures, and the people that shared them. Marty's fondness for the big landscapes and public lands of the west was heightened by many years spent traveling extensively to compete in high school, college and professional rodeo as a saddle bronc rider. A University of Wyoming graduate in agricultural economics, Marty has spent a 36-year career in the livestock feed and nutrition business working in sales, consulting and management. Marty and his wife, Billie are blessed with four adult children and a handful of grandchildren who are all actively pursuing their own adventures. He continues to spend as much time as he can in the back country with family, friends, and the indispensable help of good horses.

Reviews for Antlers: Stories from the Heart of the Hunt

""Marty writes extraordinarily well, keeps it interesting, moving, and gives enough clues so that the reader can figure out what is coming-or the 'rest of the story'-feel good, and pat themselves on the back! He paints wonderfully effective visual word pictures that make the people and environments come alive. I really enjoy how each scenario ends, then moves to the following segment so seamlessly. As for hunters that read it, they can verify comfortably and say 'Yup, been there and done that!'"" ""It's a bit uncanny how so acutely close to home Marty has given scenarios that relate to different times and circumstances in my own life. I truly believe that we may have actually walked on each other's tracks-very possibly physically and, quite apparently, emotionally. It's mind boggling how close he is to telling some of 'my story'"". ""During all the years I spent working as an illustrator for Outdoor Life magazine, the NRA's American Hunter, etc., I first read an article in order to select a scenario out of it to do the illustration. As one would imagine, I've noticed that not all outdoor writers are the same level. Marty's book would be at the very top of a list-hands down!"" Leon Parson, SAA, Distinguished Wildlife Artist


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