I mocked this quietly at first. "Too ceremonial," I thought.
Here is what they taught me. In North America, we talk about ballistics and optics. In the Czech Republic, they talk about the buko-buko (beech nuts). My friend Pavel can look at a single hoof print and tell you not only how heavy the animal is, but what it ate for breakfast. czech hunter friends
He was right. Thirty seconds later, the brush erupted. In the US, we hang the head on the wall. In Czechia, they hang the meat in the cold room. I mocked this quietly at first
Na zdar! (To success!)
They don’t just hunt. They live the forest. And in three seasons of tracking with them, they have completely rewritten my definition of what a "hunter" should be. In North America, we talk about ballistics and optics