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...River National Forest of northwest Colorado. It is the home of the largest elk herd (about 18,000 in all) in North America. His base is Meeker (pop. 2,356), the sleepy seat of Rio Blanco County, a town without a traffic light or a movie theater. In winter deer wander through town and are sometimes killed by motorists on Main Street. The town's economy depends heavily on the elk and deer season in October, when thousands of hunters invade the area. In summer people fish for trout in the clear lakes and streams...
Later a rancher asks Madison where the elk hunting is good and what is the condition of the herd. Madison is polite with him, but he tells a visitor that he suspects the man allowed hunters-illegally-to kill two deer on his land during the season last year. "We didn't have enough evidence to make a case, but we're watching him real close this season...
...summer the same ranchers complain endlessly to Madison that "his elk" are grazing on their cattle pastures. In winter they blame him when hungry elk and deer are busting their fences and devouring their haystacks. "It's not that folks don't like Jeff personally," says Herb Hughley, who operates the Valley Motel on Highway 13, which runs through Meeker. "But they don't like bureaucrats in Denver making laws about what they can and cannot do here...
Back in 1979, Temple's high school Wildcats clinched the state football title under Bob McQueen, the coach and town hero. The people of Temple do a lot of hunting in season, shooting doves with shotguns and deer with rifles. But for year-round entertainment, nothing in town beats professional wrestling...
...gets worse-or better, depending on your tolerance for fascist fantasies. The most sensitive boy in the group (C. Thomas Howell) is compelled to drink the blood of a freshly killed deer; later, asked what it was like to kill a man, he grunts, "It was good."The town high school's star quarterback (Patrick Swayze) turns to tossing grenades soon after his father shouts, "Avenge me! Avenge me!" He refuses, however, to kill a wounded female comrade (Lea Thompson), so she borrows a spare grenade to blow up herself and an enemy soldier. Red Dawn is too crude...