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Morning Comes Early

It was the middle of the night when Bobby and James got up and slipped out quietly on opening day.

Up before 3 a.m., the fatherson team joined about 25 other anxious hunters for breakfast at 4 a.m. at the home of Bobby’s first cousin, Joe Williams.

It was a big breakfast, the kind that starts a big day right. It’s also part of the tradition. By 4:45, everyone had wished everyone else good hunting, and each went his separate way, heading for the “perfect” hunting spot, generally scouted out long before opening day.

Bobby and James knew where they were going to land, too: in a tree stand that Bobby had put up about two weeks ago.

Wait And See

Bobby said he had learned over the years that the tree stand was best for deer hunting. Get up there, get settled and get quiet early, he suggested.

He said other hunters generally started up the mountain at about dawn. By then, he and James already would be waiting comfortably in a tree, looking down i for the buck other hunters possibly i would send scrambling their way.

Once settled on the tree stand, the Williamses would take a waitand-see approach. They would be up high, out of sight and out of

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