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row with accuracy is like a racy and determination, like an
45lb plate lifted off of you. One arrow flying through the air. Life
of the main things archery has is like archery, in that the jour-
taught me is that patience and ney may present difficulties like
practice is key to success. if the wind is howling in the
I started hunting when I was a wrong direction and the deer
young boy. I started out rifle smell me and they run off. I
hunting with Marlin 30-30, then don’t get to shoot one that day,
I got into bow hunting when I but that doesn't mean that I’m
was 12 with a Mission Com- supposed to give up. You have
pound bow by Mathews. I now to have determination and nev-
love bow hunting because the er give up when you face
season is so much longer than difficulties. In embracing this
any other. Then you can get consistency we can transform
bucks before our dreams into reality, like a
they start master bow hunter shooting a
chasing big buck with precision, accura-
Senior Division Boy doe’s in cy in the woods. In my mind the
rut,
the
Grade: 9 Teacher: Mandy Buck which typically sport of archery and hunting are
legacies that not only have
Age: 15 School: Depew Public come during rifle been passed down to me but I
will surely pass down to my
season. During
bow season you children in the future.
Archery: What I like can catch them on corn piles
usually at dawn and a little be-
about Archery in the fore dusk. When in the stand on .
a crispy, cold November morn-
Schools and ing before dawn, you get to see
magic happen, as squirrels start
Bowhunting : to come out of the trees, or as
rabbits come out of their dens.
…(continued)... But the best of all is the beauti-
One thing archery and ful Oklahoma sunrise you get to
bowhunting gives me is a sense witness in nature's glorious
of accomplishment. Whether it’s beauty.
successfully tracking a deer, or Like a skilled bow hunter or an
it’s watching a comet of hope fly archer consistently draw backs
from the 15 meter line in NASP. their bow with accuracy and
It just gives you the feeling you precision to the target circle or
have something to be proud of. lungs of a deer, we too must in
Every time you release an ar- life guide ourselves with accu-
