Ken Pearce - the above average, average hunter
If any one man encapsulated the essence of post World War II sambar hunting in Victoria, and, the organisation that grew through championing it, that man was Ken Pearce, known to all as KP.
A working class boy from working class suburbs, KP, like so many others, benefited from the unique, egalitarian access to public land for wild deer hunting that Victoria offered. For KP, it was the great obsession of his life, the rewards of which he repaid through decades of frontline work for the Australian Deer Association.
In a time when sambar hunting was hard and bush stalking was even harder, KP not only mastered the uniquely Australian art of ‘Walking them Up’, he literally wrote the book on it.
If there is a heaven, there will be a big man, with an even bigger rifle crashing through the gates in his Dunlop KT26’s taking his deserved place amongst the legends of the deer scene.
KP was a deer man who encapsulated the best of us.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill.
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