From the field: Hunters embrace their avocations

LOVELAND — Rob Protzman had a non-traditional path to becoming a hunter. Rather than growing up hunting, he didn’t come to the sport he loves until later in life. 

Protzman, since 2009 the owner and president of IT company Chartered Technology, instead got into hunting about a decade ago, shortly after he was married. At that point, Protzman enjoyed shotgunning and sport clay shooting, but had never hunted. Then his new father-in-law invited him on a pheasant-hunting trip to South Dakota. He was hooked.

“It was a whole different game,” Protzman said. “I got hooked from a combination of multiple things. The…