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Blue-collar hunter trades luxury for trophies

By Gary Fallesen
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Monday, June 16, 2003

ONTARIO, N.Y. — Occasionally someone suggests that Mark Dittberner has misspent his adulthood. He labors around the clock, often working 20-hour days, so he can hunt big game around the world. "You know how big a house you'd have if you didn't hunt?" they say. This stupefies Dittberner. "Is that what everything revolves around?" he asks in a small, heated shed behind his farmhouse in western New York. "I don't have any regrets for a nickel I spent on all the hunts and travel." In al ...

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