Heimbuch's son Jack asked Heimbuch about his hunting mission before Heimbuch left to go pheasant hunting in Iowa. "'Are you going to bring home a bear?' he asked, and I could sense a bit of wonderment in his tone," Heimbuch wrote. "'I'm going after a pheasant.' 'A pheasant? Is that like a deer?' he asked... 'No, buddy, a pheasant is a bird.' 'Do you eat it?' 'Yeah, buddy, you eat it. It's like a chicken.' Here there was a long pause as he tried to work out the implications of what had just been said. 'Dad,' he said 鈥� and his tone had gone from 'you're my hero' to 'you're an idiot' 鈥� 'you're going hunting for a chicken?'... 'Well, it's not just me,' I said by way of justification. 'Uncle Mark and Tommy will be there.' 'Dad,' he said, putting his little foot down, 'it's going to take three of you to hunt a chicken?'"
