Tagging out after the game

Editor's Note:

While interviewing Lindsie Farver earlier in the year, she told a story about hunting antelope in her volleyball uniform. The Saratoga Sun is giving her the opportunity to tell her story in her own words.

Hunting is in my blood, I was raised around it. Every year I go hunting with my dad typically rifle hunting. But this last year I decided archery was for me. We practiced quite a bit and used a crossbow for my first big game archery hunting season. As I've gotten older athletics has become a big part of my life. Since volleyball is around the same time of year as any hunting season it is more difficult to go hunting all season long. After a volleyball game against the Lady Panthers last year in 2018, I decided it was time to tag out and fill the freezer. It was fairly late into the archery season, I had been scoping out a buck I liked and Dad had spotted it earlier that day. So right after the game he took me out and I didn't have time to change, I only had time to aim. Killing my first antelope buck with archery was nothing like I'd expected it's definitely different than hunting with a rifle. He didn't make it very far after the shot and I posed for a picture. My dad's coworkers the next day were in awe that I could shoot a buck antelope with archery in my volleyball clothes. They always brag about how they buy the most expensive camo to archery hunt with and that you can't kill anything without it. Well I guess I proved those guys wrong.