Editor’s note: This column first appeared Saturday, Sept. 27 in The Trailhead, a free email newsletter featuring Penn’s Woods coverage of Pennsylvania’s great outdoors on lehighvalleylive.com and pennlive.com. It comes out weekly at 8 a.m. Saturday. Sign up here .

Archery hunters, myself included, carry a fear of a gut-shot wounding, a broadhead planted into a scapula or any number of other misplaced shots on a white-tailed deer.

For those of us without sufficient property to practice at home, getting comfortable with a bow or crossbow generally means joining a gun club. In the Lehigh Valley, East Bath and Stockertown are among clubs that take archery ranges to a new level — with an annual fee.

On Sept. 19, the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Northampton County opened up free

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