Let’s go ahead and think ahead to the latter part of the deer season. It’s been a long one, and the hours of sitting stand are beginning to take their toll. Pulling your bow up the tree is synonymous with lugging a boulder from a well. This can be dangerous to the deer hunter’s psyche…

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