Ron spomer still alive
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Ron is from a small town, farming family background in rural South Dakota. He began hunting small game and exploring the natural world as child, poking, prying, splashing and groping through the mud and weeds. Self-taught do-it-yourself hunter, naturalist, birder, wildlife photographer. Ron has spent last 40 years as licensed hunter, pursuing everything from bunnies and waterfowl to Harlequin quail and grizzly bears in North America. Have also hunted South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Harvested furs while working way through college, BS in English, University of South Dakota. Self-guided, wilderness backpack hunter. Have taken two bighorn sheep on my own, four Dalls and a Stone while guided. Many wilderness hunts for moose, elk, mountain goats, grizzly bears, black bears, caribou. Extensive hunting for whitetails, mule deer, pronghorns, black tails, Coues deer, etc. Seven African plains game safaris. Owned and trained labs, Springer’s, English setters over which I've taken all N.A. upland birds and most waterfowl. Ron has photographed the natural wor
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Ron Spomer - Writer, Photographer, Hunter, Conservationist
Ron Spomer is a typical American country boy who had just enough smarts to make his passion his vocation. He’s been at it for more than 45 years and shows no signs of slowing … much.
“Folks often ask me how I got lucky enough to be an outdoor writer and TV host,” Spomer said. “They seem to think it’s the greatest job in the world. It isn’t.” And then he grins: “But it’s a tolerable second best.”
Ron recognizes he was lucky, perhaps even blessed to be born the grandson of German/Russian immigrant farmers in the Pheasant Capital of the World, South Dakota. Some say cold, windy SD is a great place to be from, but for a hunter it’s a great place to be, period. Upland birds, waterfowl, small game, big game, furbearers, fish… “The Sioux knew what they were doing when they migrated to the Dakota prairies,” Spomer noted. “So did my grandparents.”
Some of Ron’s earliest hunting was conducted with homemade bows and arrows in his Grandpa’s woodlot. More was done in his imagination. He dreamed of jungles and wild river
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Biography
Ron Spomer is an avid writer of the outdoors and works as a freelancer. He has authored six books on hunting and wildlife natural history and published in well over 100 consumer magazines. Ron is a former information officer, writer, photographer for South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks and for Kansas Fish & Game. He currently stars in T.V. shows put on by Orion Entertainment. Two of the most popular have been Winchester's Whitetail Revolution and Winchester's World of Whitetail. His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Bangert.
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Ron Spomer Source: South Dakota Pheasant Acres
Sources
- Stars of Orion Entertainment - site no longer available online
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