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outdoor culture. To this day, we want to continue to enjoy However, sometimes out of
Native Americans take great the nature we have today for nowhere you’ll hear a twig
pride in their hunting, they snap and your heart will begin
generations to come we need
to speed up. After not hearing
provide their citizens with ex- to continue in the essential art anything for a while, you as-
clusive licenses, hunting land of hunting and continue to
sume it’s a squirrel and you
and hunting opportunities. teach our children the values begin to relax, but then you
Native Americans are not the and ways of nature. look below you and there’s a
doe standing 20 feet under-
only ones who value their out- I truly believe hunting can act neath you! She has her head
door heritage, we have all had as a form of art, and one of in the air, and you fear she’s
ancestors who have valued the most rewarding arts you smelling you, you’re frozen in
place, afraid to move. Your
hunting. Over thousands of can do. From the time the
heart is beating uncontrollably
years outdoor knowledge has season ends, hunters are
now as the doe steps into the
been passed down from gen- itching to get back in the
field in front of you, you get
eration to generation. Fathers stand. Hunters work through your bow ready and wait for
and sons hitting the woods, the year, braving the ele- her to get in a position where
you can shoot her, then out of
grandfathers telling their sto- ments, in order to find out
ries at family dinners, and old when and where the deer will the corner of your eye you
see a fawn, it happily gallops
tales give us great outdoor be. Then, you have to find the out towards it’s mother as you
knowledge and experience. best way to and from your
lower your bow. You sit back
Hunting is one of the biggest, stand. When the season final- and enjoy watching the show
who’s only director is God
oldest, and one of the most ly opens back up, you can
important traditions we have feel the excitement in the air himself. Suddenly, the pair
runs off as you wonder if they
today among all cultures. as people are ecstatic to see smelled you, but then, you
see a pair of antlers step out
Today hunters are the biggest their hard work pay off. On
conservationist there are. Due opening day you get up hours of the brush, it’s a massive
before dawn and had to your
to an excise tax placed on buck. He smells the air for
does and you get your bow
stand. You sit in silence as
hunting gear and license ready, he slowly makes his
you watch the sunrise, there
sales, hunters contribute way into your shooting lane,
more money to wildlife con- is no better place to see the you think your heart is going
sunrise than over a field on a to pound out of your chest.
servation than any other
group and are virtually solely cool Oklahoma morning. Even You wait for what feels like
forever, then he emerges 20
responsible for the restoration if the hunt isn’t successful you yards away, broadsiding you,
of deer, turkey, waterfowl and still got to enjoy a day alone in you draw your bow and get
nature.
other wildlife populations. If aligned, you let out a little
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Native Americans take great the nature we have today for nowhere you’ll hear a twig
pride in their hunting, they snap and your heart will begin
generations to come we need
to speed up. After not hearing
provide their citizens with ex- to continue in the essential art anything for a while, you as-
clusive licenses, hunting land of hunting and continue to
sume it’s a squirrel and you
and hunting opportunities. teach our children the values begin to relax, but then you
Native Americans are not the and ways of nature. look below you and there’s a
doe standing 20 feet under-
only ones who value their out- I truly believe hunting can act neath you! She has her head
door heritage, we have all had as a form of art, and one of in the air, and you fear she’s
ancestors who have valued the most rewarding arts you smelling you, you’re frozen in
place, afraid to move. Your
hunting. Over thousands of can do. From the time the
heart is beating uncontrollably
years outdoor knowledge has season ends, hunters are
now as the doe steps into the
been passed down from gen- itching to get back in the
field in front of you, you get
eration to generation. Fathers stand. Hunters work through your bow ready and wait for
and sons hitting the woods, the year, braving the ele- her to get in a position where
you can shoot her, then out of
grandfathers telling their sto- ments, in order to find out
ries at family dinners, and old when and where the deer will the corner of your eye you
see a fawn, it happily gallops
tales give us great outdoor be. Then, you have to find the out towards it’s mother as you
knowledge and experience. best way to and from your
lower your bow. You sit back
Hunting is one of the biggest, stand. When the season final- and enjoy watching the show
who’s only director is God
oldest, and one of the most ly opens back up, you can
important traditions we have feel the excitement in the air himself. Suddenly, the pair
runs off as you wonder if they
today among all cultures. as people are ecstatic to see smelled you, but then, you
see a pair of antlers step out
Today hunters are the biggest their hard work pay off. On
conservationist there are. Due opening day you get up hours of the brush, it’s a massive
before dawn and had to your
to an excise tax placed on buck. He smells the air for
does and you get your bow
stand. You sit in silence as
hunting gear and license ready, he slowly makes his
you watch the sunrise, there
sales, hunters contribute way into your shooting lane,
more money to wildlife con- is no better place to see the you think your heart is going
sunrise than over a field on a to pound out of your chest.
servation than any other
group and are virtually solely cool Oklahoma morning. Even You wait for what feels like
forever, then he emerges 20
responsible for the restoration if the hunt isn’t successful you yards away, broadsiding you,
of deer, turkey, waterfowl and still got to enjoy a day alone in you draw your bow and get
nature.
other wildlife populations. If aligned, you let out a little
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