Update
To our dear “Deer Tracking Magazine” subscribers and advertisers,
Thank you, from our whole family, for your support and encouragement through our 26 years in the deer industry! We’ll take it as a good thing if you have missed the magazine this last half year or so – and now comes an explanation.
Last summer brought a reminder of the brevity of life as my bride, the girl of my dreams, my very own Wonder Woman, my Tara-Lynn faced some serious health challenges. I generally like a combo deal, but this combination of heart arrhythmia and bad blood clots in legs and lungs wasn’t so good! Thanks to a local doc who just wouldn’t let things go, we (yes, we are one after all) were kept from the tipping point for another round at life almost as we knew it. Many medical appointments followed and continue, but life is still real good with my bride at my side. 35 years just hasn’t been enough!
It is not in us to do a half-baked job at anything and that certainly includes the magazine. So, instead of pushing ahead last fall, we held off for time to keep the standard high. Our advertisers and readers deserve our best efforts and our full-time commitment.
Now, another issue of Deer Tracking” is due, but priorities of time still do not allow our best efforts toward a quality magazine and maximum marketing. It’s not that we don’t have the time for the magazine but, rather, we do not have the time to fit in all the things in life that we want to include daily in our marriage and life together… with time and our hearts steadily ticking away!
We’re not letting go of our connection with the deer industry! I continue to consult, present, research and write – and appreciate the invitation to contribute to other industry publications. And I still look forward to phone calls with our many deer-farmer friends. When health allows travel again, we plan on leisurely working our way through homes, auctions, and convention shows. We’re still running the trap-line, hosting trap-line adventures, and outfitting for wild deer and black bear in northern Saskatchewan. Yes, we can still live active lives and will simply have fewer deadlines and less time in front of a computer. Those press-time magazine pressures don’t allow much flexibility.
We gladly and gratefully offer complete refunds for remaining subscriptions, but before we mail you a cheque we need you to notify us by phone, email, Facebook, or regular post to make sure we have your correct mailing address. Lots of addresses change frequently and we’d rather not have refund cheques floating in the postage system.
Questions are never awkward and calls are always welcome, so please feel free to phone or visit. I thank God for the strange and wonderfully wild life my family has lived and I know that He has blessed us beyond measure through your support of Deer Tracking Magazine… each and every subscription and ad have helped make our life possible. We are humbly grateful!
Not done yet,
Randy Barks (editor)
