CONTENTS
Volume 1 | Issue 3
The History - - Lindsey’s Resort p. 10
Adequately Aging White Tails p. 14
What Is Hunting? Article by John L. Sloan p. 8
RV Basics
Article by Jason Baggett p. 18
As The Water Cools, The Fishing Gets Hot Article by Joey Fisher p. 22
Good Health Lends to Optimal Performance Article by Corbet Deary p. 31
The Lovit Traildogs
Hunters Addiction
A group of retired professionals head for the hills to blaze new trails in the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail p. 24
RSO Profiles featuring Hunters Addiction and Hitmen p. 36
Toad Fly p. 34
RSO Spotlight p. 44
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Dream Catcher Outdoor Adventures p. 28
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What Is Hunting? BY John L. Sloan
What Is Hunting?
What is hunting? Sounds like a stupid question, doesn’t it? You go out and try to shoot some kind of game. It is simple. Or is it? Many have written about why they hunt or why we hunt. But what is hunting? Some time ago I posed this question on a very popular Internet hunting forum. I had well over 100 replies. Some were excellent, some made no sense, some made a little sense and some were downright ridiculous. But they all made me think. Just what is hunting to those of here in Arkansas?
A Sport?
Well as much as the word sport in
conjunction with hunting may be uncomfortable for some, yes, it certainly is a sport. Just as golf is a sport, it requires a certain degree of expertise. It is something done in free or leisure time and it can be a profession. Unlike golf, no score is kept other than in the mind of the hunter and within the game laws. But it is certainly a sport. In fact, in some of the old hunting camps the hunter was referred to by the guides as a Sport.
An Industry?
Most assuredly hunting is an industry and a huge one. I am far too lazy to look up just how much money hunting brings across the boards
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each year. I’m sure it starts with a “B”, as in billions. I am sure someone in the building where this magazine is published can tell you how much it means to Tennessee. Let it suffice to say, hunting provides jobs for thousands, incomes, opportunities and land preservation. Organizations such as the National Wild Turkey Federation, Ducks Unlimited, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and many others would not even exist were it not for hunting. If you want to get technical...and be accurate, you could say, tracing back to Teddy Roosevelt, if he had not been an avid hunter, there might not be a National Park Service. Yep, you
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The LOViT Traildogs A group of retired professionals head for the hills to blaze new trails in the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail
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Dream Catcher Outdoor Adventures
Bobby and Cathy Bower Founders
Turning Disibilities Into Possibilities By John Post
Bobby Bower was working for Centerpoint Entergy in a front yard when a man in a wheelchair came out of the garage next door. He drove up the driveway and on the sidewalk towards Bower. “Yep, I’m fixing to be told what I need to be doing,” Bower thought as the man approached him. The man didn’t disappoint, grumpily telling Bower how he needed to be doing his job. Afterwards, Bower noticed he was wearing a camoflauge shirt and hat. “Do you hunt?” he asked the man. “Yeah, I used to,” he said. “Why, did you quit?” “Well, apparently you can’t see,” the man said. “I can’t hardly go hunting.” Without batting an eye, Bobby said, “Sure you can.” “What do you mean?” “You want to go hunting?” Bobby asked. “Sure, I’d like to. What does it cost?” “Nothing.”
The man had suffered a stroke four years before, but that didn’t stop him from going hunting. And that, for Bobby Bower, is the most rewarding part about his non-profit organization Dream Catcher Outdoor Adventures: being the guy to tell people who think they can’t, that they can. Dream Catcher Outdoor Adventures started with a hunting trip in 1999, when Bobby and his wife Cathy were hunting on their lease. They admired the scenery that morning, and thought about their grandparents, who were disabled and had stayed in their houses for the last 15 years of their life. “You know, it’d be nice to take someone hunting that couldn’t get out,” Cathy said. “Let’s find some people we could take.” They took some people out hunting and found the experience immensely rewarding. “Long story short, we ended up filing with the government to get our nonprofit certification,” Bobby said. “It took a
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lot of time and paperwork, but we finally got the deal done.” The early hunts that Dream Catcher Outdoor Adventures ran were challenging for the couple. “We really didn’t have a clue what we were getting into on the first hunt we took,” Bower said. “We did a dove hunt, and I didn’t have any idea about how to fix a wheelchair’s flat or any of that stuff.” But the hunt was still successful, and the rest is history. In 12 years, they’ve taken approximately 450 disabled people on hunting trips that wouldn’t normally have been able to go. They take all ages on hunting expeditions. “We’ll take someone from age eight to age eighty,” Bower says. They participate in deer, dove, turkey, and duck hunts, as well as fishing trips. Their most recent hunt was a trip to Texas, where they participated in a deer hunt on the SmithKO Ranch. They took five kids out there, and while one didn’t kill a deer, he went and stayed with Bobby and Cathy one weekend in November in hopes of
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having better luck the second time around.
Bower’s philosophy when taking children on hunting trips is simple: treat them like they’re your grandchildren. “It’s no different,” he said. “They’re not any different from anybody else. Everybody has a disability, everybody. You can just see theirs better than you can mine or ours.”
Bower enjoys taking children on their first turkey or deer hunt. “It’s just something that needs to be done,” he says. “They need to get outside and get away from the video games for a while.”
Dream Catcher Outdoor Adventures has other options available for people not interested in hunting. They will take people out to video tape deer or turkey or just to enjoy the outdoors, and they’ll also take people on four-wheeler rides around the leases.
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Bower is quick to credit both his wife and the community support for the company’s success. “Cathy takes as many people out there as I do,” he says. “And we both couldn’t do it without the community support. Our volunteers are great and play a vital role in our trips. It cost approximately thirty thousand a year to run, and the people and businesses that support us deserve plenty of credit, too.”
For people wanting to get involved, visit their website at dreamcatcheroutdoors. org and click on the Application tab. Donations would be appreciated as well. Send your tax deductible donations to DCOA 108 Upper Pine Ridge Rd. Russellville, AR 72802 www.dreamcatcheroutdoors.org Day: 479.264.7828 | Night:479.968.3651
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Good Health
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