On the hunt for bear in the Ozarks

Consider this treasured family photograph as something of a national Rorschach test. What do you see? A proud, young father introducing his infant son to the joy and satisfaction of a successful hunt? Or, alternatively, something vaguely inappropriate? In:

Consider this treasured family photograph as something of a national Rorschach test. What do you see? A proud, young father introducing his infant son to the joy and satisfaction of a successful hunt? Or, alternatively, something vaguely inappropriate?

"I was just a couple of months old, and he's over a deer that he's shot with a traditional bow," said Bear Newcomb.

"And I went home and got him, put him in the pack and retrieved the deer," said his father, Clay Newcomb. "And that's an iconic photo of us."

Fair warning: this family you're about to meet – their friends, that infant, now fully-grown – all come down overwhelmingly on the side of the hunters.

Clay, a lifelong hunter and historian of bear hunting in North America, said, "The tangible nature of hunting and the responsibility that comes from hunting, to be able to use a firearm, to go into the wild, the land ethic that has to be understood to be a hunter, is a really unique way to raise up a child."