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How did Bob find Shawn Eastman? “I was hiring a lot of seasonal kids from Crookston,” he replied. “A least a dozen from Crookston worked at Marsh Lake until they got through college. They earned some credits that way. That’s how I met Tom Stumpf, your cowboy author. Tom moved down from Crookston to work at the Club. Tom and I have been friends since he was 19.”

When Bob and Karen Swanson return to Minnesota for the summers, they live at the Marsh Lake Hunting Preserve with their daughters. When you marry the Boss’s daughter, it becomes one big happy family. It’s been that way at the Marsh Lake Hunting Preserve for 40 years now. Said Shawn of his father in law, “He’s a good guy.”

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The end of the recent hunting season occurred last week on March 31st, but that doesn’t mean the end of Shawn Eastman’s responsibilities at the Club.

“I started out guiding and dog training and learned to do the farming, and basically now I’m running the club, the business side of it,” he said. For the last ten years, since 2000, Shawn also teaches firearm safety at Cabin Fever Sporting Goods in Victoria. “Every spring I have Sunday and Tuesday classes, each with 35 to 40 kids, for five nights each with a test on the sixth night and a field day for them here at Marsh Lake. I enjoy that. We certify 75 to 80 kids a year,” he said. And last year Shawn joined the Victoria Lions which has added to his involvement in the community.

Does this manager of hunters and hunt club have time to hunt himself? “Yes, I do,” he said, “but not as much time as I’d like. I hunt pheasants once a year and ducks four to five times a year. I hunt more deer now than birds, maybe 25 days out of the year, for about an hour at night here on the farm.” Yes, it remains a hunter’s paradise.

Thank you, Shawn, for the tour and the talk. Glad you’re part of the Victoria community. You’re a good guy, too.