The photograph with today’s post popped up this week as a memory from nine years ago.
While posted up a tree and bowhunting for deer on a November fall day, I noticed that the sight pins that were supposed to be on my compound bow, had vanished, had slid off the bracket of my bow and dropped earthward.
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