CHAPTER 1 UP FOR THE CHALLENGE You sit motionless in your tree You sit motionless in your tree stand You blow on a call making stand You blow on a call making a low grunting noise Then your eyes a low grunting noise Then your eyes catch motion You catch motion You draw your bow as a white-tailed deer walks toward you You white-tailed deer walks toward you You aim carefully and release the string The aim carefully and release the string The arrow zips through the air and hits its arrow zips through the air and hits its mark It’s a perfect shot mark It’s a perfect shot Shooting arrows with a bow is sometimes called Shooting arrows with a bow is sometimes called archery archery 5
Early arrowheads were often made from stone such as flint Bows were invented thousands of years ago People shaped flexible pieces of wood into bows They fitted the bows with strings Bows allowed people to fire arrows at any target Hunters no longer had to get close enough to an animal to throw a spear They could hunt animals 6
without putting themselves in as much danger When hunting rifles were developed in the (cid:157) (cid:144)(cid:144)s bowhunting was no longer necessary But many people still enjoyed the challenge of hunting with bows and arrows Early arrows were made of wood But in (cid:157)Ž Ž aluminum arrows were introduced These metal arrows were stronger and lighter People also invented stronger bows The first compound bow was created in (cid:157)Žšš It used a series of pulleys This made it possible for hunters to shoot farther and with more force than ever before Every year millions of people take to the woods to bowhunt 7
