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KIDS’ CORNER<br />
COUNTRY<br />
BOY<br />
By Kris Millgate<br />
Seeking Fish and Game with 11-year-old Lafe<br />
I’m Lafe.<br />
I’m 11.<br />
I like snakes and summer.<br />
I live in the country where the river is close.<br />
The mountains are close too.<br />
I spend time in both.<br />
I like rods and rifles.<br />
I caught a state record grayling with my rod.<br />
All I had to do was catch it, measure it and throw it back.<br />
It was really cool because a lot of people don’t get the opportunity to<br />
hold a record for anything.<br />
Using a rifle is harder.<br />
I took hunter ed and my dad taught me.<br />
I shot my first elk with my dad and he was really proud of me.<br />
It was the lead cow.<br />
I knew if I missed, the whole herd would know and they would all<br />
run off.<br />
I didn’t miss.<br />
It was a lot of work to climb up where the elk were.<br />
It was a lot of work to bring the elk down.<br />
The lead cow is a lot of meat.<br />
I made jerky.<br />
It tastes really good.<br />
There’s a lot of other good stuff outside, too.<br />
Go outside. You have a better chance of having fun.<br />
Kris is an outdoor journalist based in Idaho Falls, Idaho.<br />
See more of her work at www.tightlinemedia.com.<br />
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