He reveals how during the Friday night ladies' tournament, which was held in New York City last year, Blumberg had coyly handed him one of the lucky deer paws the Naumann family had brought with them last year. That would be 2012's third-place winner, Mike Byrne, a 31-year-old bartender from Minneapolis. Just ask Lily Blumberg, a 28-year-old banker and “Buck Girl” who promotes the game: “I met my boyfriend at last year's tournament,” she says.
“We all grew up with that lore of what America is.”īig Buck Hunter is an unlikely catnip for babes. But why would urban types even pick up an electronic shotgun in the first place? “Deep down, people think they could do it themselves-they could go into a cabin and live off the land,” says the game’s inventor, George Petro. Maybe that comes from the mutual respect you gain for a shooter you know only by name through playing online. Minnesota itself has 166 machines, and Texas has 120.ĭuring the tournament, however, those cultural and geographic divisions were invisible.
That's out of 1,328 Big Buck Hunter HD machines currently networked around the country. There are now 21 Big Buck HD machines in the city’s five boroughs-accounting for nearly half the machines in the state-with most of them clustered around fashionable Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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