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KIRT DARNER STORY
LAST EDITED ON Feb-07-06 AT 11:18AM (MST)[p]
Found this on Rich LaRocco's site. Personaly I don't know one thing about Kirt Darner.
Many of you might know that I wrote both of Kirt Darner's books in the early '80s. Some of you might know that shortly afterward evidence came into my hands that he had not killed one of his Boone and Crockett mule deer, and I turned that evidence over to Jack Reneau of the Boone and Crockett Club, which later ruled against Darner.
This is a long and sorry story, and I've never written it down until now though I've been happy to share it with people who have asked. At this point, before you continue, perhaps you should click on the headline to read the latest chapter in this saga before you continue from the beginning.
http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/publications/press_releases/documents/0202indictments.htm
I first found out about Darner when I was senior editor at Outdoor Life Magazine (yes, I worked in Manhattan), and I was assigned to edit an article that my friend Jim Zumbo had written about the man. Darner was supposedly the most successful trophy mule deer hunter of all time and had seven bucks in the Boone and Crockett Club's record book.
I also found an article that been written by Doug Knight in Field and Stream magazine in the late '60s or early '70s. The article featured a hunt that Knight had enjoyed with Darner and another young friend in a New Mexico wilderness area, where Knight reported seeing some great bucks and where Darner and his friend both killed big deer.
Later, I left New York to return to the wild and free and sunny West and settled in Cache Valley, Utah. Clair Conley, editor-in-chief of Outdoor Life, asked me to stay with the magazine as Western field editor. I turned him down because the Western field editor of the time was my friend Dwight Schuh, who is now editor of Bowhunting Magazine. Clair said he was firing Dwight whether I took the job or not, and so I reluctantly agreed. If I had to make that decision over again, I would have turned down the job a second time, but sometimes in life you learn the hard way, and when you're hardheaded, that's how you tend to learn all your big lessons.
And that is the case with the Darner story.
(this article by Hunts.Net President Rich LaRocco will be continued with photographs next week)
www.hunts.net
LAST EDITED ON Feb-07-06 AT 11:18AM (MST)[p]
Found this on Rich LaRocco's site. Personaly I don't know one thing about Kirt Darner.
Many of you might know that I wrote both of Kirt Darner's books in the early '80s. Some of you might know that shortly afterward evidence came into my hands that he had not killed one of his Boone and Crockett mule deer, and I turned that evidence over to Jack Reneau of the Boone and Crockett Club, which later ruled against Darner.
This is a long and sorry story, and I've never written it down until now though I've been happy to share it with people who have asked. At this point, before you continue, perhaps you should click on the headline to read the latest chapter in this saga before you continue from the beginning.
http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/publications/press_releases/documents/0202indictments.htm
I first found out about Darner when I was senior editor at Outdoor Life Magazine (yes, I worked in Manhattan), and I was assigned to edit an article that my friend Jim Zumbo had written about the man. Darner was supposedly the most successful trophy mule deer hunter of all time and had seven bucks in the Boone and Crockett Club's record book.
I also found an article that been written by Doug Knight in Field and Stream magazine in the late '60s or early '70s. The article featured a hunt that Knight had enjoyed with Darner and another young friend in a New Mexico wilderness area, where Knight reported seeing some great bucks and where Darner and his friend both killed big deer.
Later, I left New York to return to the wild and free and sunny West and settled in Cache Valley, Utah. Clair Conley, editor-in-chief of Outdoor Life, asked me to stay with the magazine as Western field editor. I turned him down because the Western field editor of the time was my friend Dwight Schuh, who is now editor of Bowhunting Magazine. Clair said he was firing Dwight whether I took the job or not, and so I reluctantly agreed. If I had to make that decision over again, I would have turned down the job a second time, but sometimes in life you learn the hard way, and when you're hardheaded, that's how you tend to learn all your big lessons.
And that is the case with the Darner story.
(this article by Hunts.Net President Rich LaRocco will be continued with photographs next week)
www.hunts.net
