The Rescue: Bowhunter Saves Puppy
Thomas Barr, who goes by T-Barr, drove 14 hours from his home in Pennsylvania to bowhunt southern Illinois. It was early November, the rut was ready to rock and a cold front was on the way. The next afternoon he one of those classic Midwest funnels you read about. It was a narrow strip of timber and brush bordered on either side by a cornfield and a clover plot. A deep creek with steep, nearly vertical banks cut the middle of the cover. His stand was in a tree that swept up and out over the water. An old, crumbling barbed-wire fence ran hard along the creek and beneath the tree stand. “I climbed up and was pumped,” says T-Bar. [...]