My daughter, Christy, with her deer kill.

It has been a long time since I was not out in the woods somewhere as deer season began, but truthfully, I never did enjoy it much. The idea of an orange costume, and sitting and waiting with a scoped high powered rifle that you can hit an acorn with at 200 yards doesn’t thrill me much. I am impatient, and I like to be moving slowly and seeing new things when I am outdoors.

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