HOLLY HEYSER: Learning to hunt to get closer to her 
man ... coming up on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

Journalist, Holly Heyser, didn't grow up in a hunting family. 
She says she eventually took up the sport to spend more 
time with her boyfriend who is a hunter, author and chef.

13 -- I got sick of being alone on weekends when he was out duck 
hunting all day long. He would get up at two in the morning and 
be out forever ... .well...it didn't take that for me to join him. What 
it took was for him to cooking a lot of ducks, and wild ducks, 
especially where we live in the Sacramento Valley. Amazing. Really 
great food.

Holly says she's gained new respect for the meat she 
consume, and not just wild game, but domesticated 
animals, as well.

33 -- Since I started hunting, I am so much less wasteful of meat. 
Even if I'm at a restaurant, if there's a burger on my plate, I will 
not leave one single bite of meat on my plate, because I know an 
animal died for that. And when it's animals you hunt, 
especially ... we invest a lot of time. We can spend 12 hours and a 
lot of money on gas, to go and maybe get two ducks one day. 
That's a precious gift, and you don't waste it. So it's really made 
me understand the value of the food we eat. And, I appreciate it a 
lot more than I ever used to. And the fact that it's wild food and 
it's absolutely delicious is icing on the cake.

Holly Heyser hunts and writes in Northern California, and 
writes a hunting blog called Nor-Cal Caza-dora on 
blogspot.

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website, and learn about hunting for and preparing wild 
game.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife I'm Cecilia Nasti. 






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