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Camouflage Diaries
Learn about deer hunting from the ground up – and whether a middle-aged suburbanite can indulge a sudden passion for bagging a buck and stay normal — if he ever was “normal” ...
Michael Swartz, a longtime resident of the genteel, liberal-leaning suburbs north of Chicago, suddenly came down with a bad case of the deer hunting bug. This unlikely turn of events culminated in an adventure captured in his book "Camouflage Diaries," which readers are describing as "Dave Barry vs Bambi."
While his family and friends debate whether his sudden hutning urge is a strange turn on a midlife crisis or a personality aberration that may need professional intervention, the facts A business executive with a respectable corporate job, Swartz was steered by this inner voice from the impulse-buy aisles and catalog pages of every hunting supplier he could find all the way to the fields of Alabama, which he determined would provide the best whitetail hunting experience of all and an amusing encounter with what he assumed would be the real-life cast of "Hee-Haw."
Despite the fervor, the anticipation, the self-training and planning, the thousands of dollars spent on equipment (his attraction to hunting may have been further excited by the opportunity to acquire more and more "stuff"), the truth is, when the moment came and a deer rested in the crosshairs of his rifle, even Swartz himself didn't know whether he'd be able to squeeze the trigger and take the kill shot.
Mike's story -- as well as his unique, offbeat sense of humor and style of storytelling (both on the page and in person) -- is a grabber, with equal appeal to "closet" hunters as to those with a twelve-point rack mounted in their dens.
Camouflage Diaries provides answers to these critical life
* Can bucks see blaze orange?
* How much “stuff” does a hunter really need?
* If you are lost in the woods, can the trees hear you scream?
* Do deer really laugh?
* Is a rutting buck more rational than a menopausal woman?
Michael Swartz, a longtime resident of the genteel, liberal-leaning suburbs north of Chicago, suddenly came down with a bad case of the deer hunting bug. This unlikely turn of events culminated in an adventure captured in his book "Camouflage Diaries," which readers are describing as "Dave Barry vs Bambi."
While his family and friends debate whether his sudden hutning urge is a strange turn on a midlife crisis or a personality aberration that may need professional intervention, the facts A business executive with a respectable corporate job, Swartz was steered by this inner voice from the impulse-buy aisles and catalog pages of every hunting supplier he could find all the way to the fields of Alabama, which he determined would provide the best whitetail hunting experience of all and an amusing encounter with what he assumed would be the real-life cast of "Hee-Haw."
Despite the fervor, the anticipation, the self-training and planning, the thousands of dollars spent on equipment (his attraction to hunting may have been further excited by the opportunity to acquire more and more "stuff"), the truth is, when the moment came and a deer rested in the crosshairs of his rifle, even Swartz himself didn't know whether he'd be able to squeeze the trigger and take the kill shot.
Mike's story -- as well as his unique, offbeat sense of humor and style of storytelling (both on the page and in person) -- is a grabber, with equal appeal to "closet" hunters as to those with a twelve-point rack mounted in their dens.
Camouflage Diaries provides answers to these critical life
* Can bucks see blaze orange?
* How much “stuff” does a hunter really need?
* If you are lost in the woods, can the trees hear you scream?
* Do deer really laugh?
* Is a rutting buck more rational than a menopausal woman?
257 pages, Paperback
First published July 30, 2005
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