One of the big cultural lessons I learned when I moved from Rhode Island to Pennsylvania back in 1990 was you can't get your car fixed on the first day of buck season. In fact I was laughed rather heartily when I asked for my car to be looked at on that day. Since then I have really learned how much apart of the culture hunting is. Especially when I moved out to Meadville in 93 and really began seeing how hunters prepare themselves for the season and, yes, take the day off of work, sometimes entire vacations are used up. At the paper I really don't enjoy taking pictures of deer kills brought in as trophies, but I'm not offended by it and, yes, I do know where my hamburger comes from and that death is involved, and not a nice clean death in that case either. A lot is made of a young hunter's first buck and it becomes a sense of family pride to see the young take to the woods and continue the family tradition. I no longer expect to get my car worked on the monday after ThanksgivinMeadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer