Game & Fish West

THE PASS

One autumn morning Shane’s father announced that the family would be visiting relatives in North Carolina in a few weeks. While there, he told Shane, they’d hunt bears.

In the time leading up to the trip Shane could scarcely sleep. Ever since he was a little boy he’d heard his father’s stories about hunting bears in the Blue Ridge Mountains. “Let me tell you

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