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Creative Writing Contest
Creative Writing Contest
Creative Writing Contest

How not to take advantage of The amount of knowledge
a privilege given to us. How to you can learn on a hunt is expo-
hunt the proper way and how to nential there isn’t a better teacher
hunt all manners of animals. To do than hands-on experience and if
that I need to be able to hunt multi- there’s one thing I’ve learned in
ple different animals. Hunting is a life you can always get better at
dying art and we need to keep the what you love, all you have to do
heritage alive. So we are able to is practice. Even if you just prac-
pass it down one day to our kids tice on a dummy sitting in the yard.
and teach them the proper way to You can still get better even if you
hunt. Because if we don’t the art don’t think so you will eventually
will be lost forever. If the proper see the progress you’ve made. This
way to hunt is lost, we may never is the kind of experience I want to
get it back. So being able to hunt show my kids one day. I want to be
may not mean a lot able to see their face when they kill
to some peo- their first deer or rabbit. Or the first
Garret Bowdre ple but to time they shoot a shotgun or rifle
me it is a
Senior Division Boy way of life because the smile on their face
would be worth everything in the

Grade: 11 Teacher: JJ Bull and keeping the world to me. This is what I want to
traditions of our
preserve so everyone can enjoy
ancestors alive is
Age: 17 School: Calera High everything, because hunting. This is why I think I
should win.
Sharing The Heritage without them we wouldn’t be here.

Unfortunately growing up
as I did we never really got to do
Hunting Heritage much because we didn’t have
I grew up hunting as a small boy much money. Even when my dad
and my dad taught me everything and mom worked two jobs, they
I’ve ever known. Hunting is more did the best they could. They al-
than just something to do on the ways got me what I wanted even
weekends it’s something you live when we didn’t have the money or
and breathe. It’s something you’re I didn’t deserve it. I know there are
proud to do. Something you appre- a lot better candidates then me out
ciate. Something you cherish. It’s there and a lot more people who
what I want to be able to pass deserve it, but if I won, it would
down to my boy or girl some day mean the world to me and my dad.
and I want them to love it as much He always wanted me to follow my
as I do. I want to be able to teach dreams and I owe it to him to try.
them what my dad taught me, to So I’m going to give it my best,
teach them how to appreciate ani- because in the end that’s all you
mals and all they do for the world. can do.