Raised in a hunting family but never hunting as a child, the wild woman in me had always yearned for both the outdoors and for the hunt. I did not hunt as a child or as an adult, but when my son showed a keen interest in guns and hunting when he was six years old, I ran with our shared interest. I was 37 years old at the time. I took the NRA beginner and advanced pistol courses. My son and I also took the Firearm Safety course together and we joined a local gun club. Later, after getting certified through NRA as an instructor in rifle, shotgun, pistol, home firearm safety, and Eddie Eagle gun safety, I was asked to make a number of televised pro-gun and pro-hunting statements in the Sacramento, CA area where we lived at the time. Moving back home to Minnesota in 1993, I was befriended by a client who agreed to help my son and I get started with deer hunting. We hunt on two parcels of land that I own, and hunt public land as well.

Today, my 21 year old son and several other men and women are my main hunting partners for firearms and archery. In 1995, I invented a number of hunting products, and brought them to market in 2001 with the hopes of making the hunting industry my main career in the next few years.

Hunting and the outdoors are deep, all consuming and often inexplicable passions in my life which find their climax not only in the taking of prey, but also by capturing my experiences in the written word. To that end, I humbly present my writings to you. My desire is to place you in the moments with me.... to feel the adrenalin, to be stirred and excited, to laugh and to dream, to lurk, shoot, climb trees and to join me in the woods as I seek the face of my soul.

Memberships/Staff
-Linda Kistler Burch-
-President, Wild Tech Corporation
-President, Data-Link Accounting Services, Inc.

-Life Member - National Rifle Association
-Member - Metro Bowhunters Resource Base
-Life Member - Minnesota Deer Hunters Association
-Member - Christian Deer hunters Association
-Member - Minnesota Bowhunters Inc.
-Member - Christian Bowhunters of America
-Member OWAA - Outdoor Writers Association of America

-NRA Certified Instructor
Rifle, Shotgun, Pistol, Home Firearm Safety, Eddie Eagle

-Minnesota DNR Certified Instructor
Firearm Safety
Bowhunter Education (NBEF)
Becoming An Outdoors Woman (Minnesota)

-Freelance Writer
Outdoors/Hunting - local publications
Minnesota Deer Hunters Association
Contributing Writer, MilleLacs Messenger Newspaper
Outdoors/Hunting - local and STATE publications

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www.firetacks.com
www.bowhunting.net
www.strictlybowhunting.com
www.outdooradventuresmagazine.com
www.sslcpas.com