Game & Fish West

THAT AWFUL FEELING

When Shane was 14 he received a compound bow for Christmas. Over the next nine months he practiced obsessively, and by late September he was well prepared to hunt deer with his bow.

On opening morning Shane’s father woke up two hours before dawn, but he didn’t have to roust his son. Shane was already waiting in the den, fully camouflaged. The light rain outside dissuaded the young bowhunter none.

“Your mom and I

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