WATFORD CITY, N.D. — It’s bull’s-eye season here at the ranch. The leaves start changing, the air cools down, the black flies find their way into my kitchen to make me crazy, and my husband and daughters take out their targets and bows and get to practicing shooting arrows.

My husband has been into archery since he was a kid. His most shared stories of his childhood are of him sitting alone in a hunting blind for hours without anything but those swarming flies to entertain him. The flies and the snacks and lunch he always finished eating well before noon. When the girls dare say they’re bored around here, the hunting blind stories are the stories he pulls out.

Yes, archery is a sport of patience and calm and, most of all, passion. It takes a special kind of mindset to stay completely sti

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