Chapter 1
The Archery Range
When the state took my dad's gas station and grocery store to widen the road, he and my granddad built something new in its place: one of the first indoor archery ranges in Georgia.
The Book
Ten chapters in three parts, told by Jeff at sixty seven looking back, each one dropping you into the scene at the age he was when it happened.
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Part One
The Early Years
Chapter 2
The Range as a Classroom
A hundred and fifty feet of range under twenty foot ceilings, my dad's arrow saw, and every bow with a sound of its own. That building taught me to stand still and pay attention.
Chapter 3
The Rattlesnake
Some fathers kept a dog. Mine kept a rattlesnake in an aquarium with a plywood lid and a rock on top.
Chapter 4
Learning to Hunt
Learning the woods from the men who knew them, one cold morning at a time, and a first deer I have never forgotten.
Chapter 5
Boy Scouts
An initiation at twelve, a song drifting through the trees that sounded sweet until you knew what it meant, and frog legs for supper.
Part Two
The Middle YearsChapter 6
Turkey Hunting: The Spur Collector
A box call I still own, a legend's advice about a bad call, and a gobbler in full strut at forty yards.
Chapter 7
Pretty Boy Floyd
Hog hunting with my friend Paul Orndorff, Mister Wonderful himself, and a Wednesday night stop at the little store in Roberta.
Chapter 8
Two Wheeling
Seventy miles an hour on a Harley, and the world comes to you one smell at a time. Out to Sturgis and all the way to the far end of Maine.
Inside this chapter: Cuba, Two Wheels. Eight hundred and sixty miles across Cuba on a Harley in 2016.
Chapter 9
Hunting Alaska: Don't Ring That Bell
1998. A floatplane grounded by a storm, four friends in a Ketchikan bar, and a bell nobody should have rung.
Part Three
The Later Years
Chapter 10
Giving Back
A shooting house at dusk, and the hunts we put together for children fighting cancer.
And at the back
The Gone Thinking Survival Guide
What my dad and granddad taught me about water, shelter, fire, and food, handed down for readers today. Take a look
Photographs
A family album of the range, the early years, the turkey woods, the road, and the people who made it all matter.
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