**Author's note: Since this publication a more episodic version titled, A Hunter's Trail-Steps Well Chosen is now or soon will be available. Please read that book's description before deciding which version to purchase.** A Book For Hunters. Follow, here, a deeply carved trail to where wild animals and hunters share natural existences. It is a trail well-cut and lined with decency, upon which we are guided by an author who proves beyond certainty that those demanding explanations are the one's lost. The author is a lifelong hunter and his perspectives have earned him acclaim in numerous outdoor magazines; his work being particularly prevalent in the industry standard, Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine where he is often featured on their renowned "back page." For a long while now, sociological caterings have beckoned humans to step on pins and needles to avoid offending anyone, but hunters do not appear to enjoy such leniencies. That's nothing new. This book traces the vitriol hunters in the sixties, seventies, and eighties, overcame only to face new challenges slung from irrationally emotional enemies that refuse to apply any form of sensitivity whatsoever toward we who hunt. To them, we are always in season. Unfortunately, hunters have for too long hastily fought back from a posture of equal angst. In doing so we reduce our potential to place the onus of explanation where it belongs-directly on the narrow shoulders of our opponents. This book will arm hunters with a more viable way to surgically and convincingly make our points. It will also challenge hunters to accept the mission of preserving our pastime. Page is not merely a cheerleader and has tough questions to be answered from within. What a shame it would be to beat back numerous outside nemeses only to somehow internally implode. There are problems to be dealt with and this book will expose a few of those in order to stimulate today's younger hunters to consider what the health of our future should look like. Originally, this book was to be aimed exclusively toward introspective hunters, and much of that element is still present. Hunting is not like bowling, golfing, kayaking, jogging, or the many other activities in which nothing dies. The ramifications of that should be respected while at the same time the reasons why any human is driven toward the hunt must be kept candidly open and honestly defended. The element of death is only prominent among those who need it to be; those critics must stay defeated at every turn. So, yes, half the book is devoted toward those type things, the morals, ethics, and correctness of nature; but there is also a good share of riveting stories. It is a good bet your own pulse will race as the author takes you along on some of the greatest highlights of his forty year career. Laugh along at rollicking youth, stare eye-ball to eye-ball from a ground blind and at full draw on an imposing black bear, endure frustrations that ultimately lead to grand victories, and finally, as age becomes a factor, sit alongside some fallen animals to quietly contemplate your own role in the circumstances presented to all living things. Why it is called Beyond The Shot will sift clear, and it is in fact a book written to defy suggestions that most hunters are not interested in the cerebral or heartfelt nature of what we do. Given that assumption, the industry has created its own void. You can bet your last shell there are many, many hunters that care to cultivate our interests far beyond simply killing animals. This book, concise as it is, will leave a resounding impact upon those type hunters. The stories are captivating, the philosophy compelling, and all in all, it offers fitting congratulations to all hunters who continue to fortify our determined role in nature.