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Personal Narrative: A Day At The Salt Palace

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Every year there is an event at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City that brings together some of the best and weirdest people, this is the hunting expo. The hunting expo is a place to share hunting trophies, apply for hunts, show off taxidermy, win guns, tags, equipment, and more. This place has everything hunting and outdoors; people around the nation come and show off their trophies, talk about hunting, and try to get people to go hunt with them. Me and my dad traveled to the wild city of Salt Lake to visit this outdoor convention. Walking to the convention you can't help but notice that trucks and jeeps were the dominant vehicle in the parking garages and parking lots, also noticing people walking out of the Salt Palace had expensive backpacks, scopes, and other hunting equipment in their hands or on their backs. This was the place to get your gear. We arrived at the Salt Palace about 1:40, thinking that it's a afternoon on a Saturday we figured it wouldn't be to packed and the people wouldn't be to drunk, but we were wrong. Thousands of people gathered together for this event with hundreds of booths to visit and check out what they have to offer. People walking around with a cup of Samuel Adams beer or a bottle of hard cider; to some, that was their …show more content…

Watching him as he would show me the faults of a mountain lions body, or how this bird isn't stuffed right was very interesting and I caught onto it fast and started to notice how taxidermists did certain things differently. You could tell that most of the people there didn't care about how the animal was stuffed or how good it was, they just like that it was cheaper and still got the job done. People would disagree with me and my dad as we are pointing out some of the flaws or things they did or didn't do good, the other people don't have the artistic background like my dad

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