African Hunting Gazette

Hunter Profile Kelly Drolet, Alberta, Canada

Unsurprisingly, my chosen career path was forestry. I met my future wife, was married and entered forestry training at the provincial technology institute. My first job landed us in a remote (one road in and out) community where we quickly found our place camping, hunting, fishing and trapping as recreation. Our daughter was exposed from birth to the wilderness activities, and to this day lives in a rural community and enjoys fishing and hunting too. My wife is a nurse and now we are retired, each with over 40 years in our respective careers.

Growing up on a subsistence style of farming ones realises the realities of raising animals for food and supplementing that with wild

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