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Meet Avid Hunter and Roofing Contractor Chad Strander

APR - Guest Blog - Atlas - Meet Avid Hunter and Roofing Contractor Chad Strander
April 25, 2018 at 6:00 a.m.

Asphalt Life blog interviewed some of the Atlas Roofing family’s hunting enthusiasts.

Chad Strander, Office Manager of Strander Roofing and Seamless Gutters LLC in Lodi, Wisconsin grew up in a hunting family. The first time he could deer hunt was at 11 years old and he’s been hunting for the past 34 years since. “Especially with deer hunting, you get out there before it’s light out and you get to listen to the woods wake up and come to life,” he says. “It’s very peaceful, even if you don’t harvest an animal.”

Q. What do you hunt? A. I have three Golden Retrievers, so I do a lot of pheasant hunting. I turkey hunt, I deer hunt and, not as much as I used to, I rabbit hunt. I also grouse hunt. About every eight to 10 years, I go to Canada for moose hunting.

Q. What’s your favorite game to hunt, and why? A. Pheasant hunting. I really love white-tail but, with pheasant hunting, watching the dogs being in their element, they are absolutely on top of the world when they’re hunting and flushing pheasants and retrieving. They totally just come to life. That’s what they love and that’s their world — us having fun pheasant hunting.

Q. Where’s your favorite hunting spot? A. North Dakota. That’s where there’s a large pheasant population and a great group of people to hunt with. The property owners who let us hunt their properties. Being from Wisconsin, we bring them cheese and brandy and deer sausage, and we give them tokens of appreciation.

Q. Do you use any high-tech hunting gadgets? A. Deer Hunter’s Edge app. It’s an electronic gauge of feeding patterns. It measures barometric pressure and temperature and tells you when game is going to be moving.

Q. Is there anything else you’d like to share? A. Take a child, friend, family member or someone who’s never experienced hunting — even if you’re not going out to harvest — and let them sit in a turkey or deer blind so they can experience the enjoyment of being in the outdoors. Everyone we’ve ever taken out who’s never experienced it either becomes a hunter or has a totally different view of people who hunt.

Learn more about Atlas Roofing at www.atlasroofing.com.

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on the Asphalt Life blog and can be viewed here.



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April 26, 2018
Nice to know about Chad, I hope this would clear some of the misconceptions people have about roofers that roofers are little educated, low class people, I hope this article breaks some misconceptions, we are cool, excellent at our job and enjoy a good li

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