This is a very strong hunting community here in the western part of the state. It didn t take long for folks who had those permits to seek us out. Hunting zones Until Mark Flaskamp discovered the hunting loops, he thought his degenerative disk disease might be the end of his hunting days. I d have to give it up completely. I m not the sort of person who deals well with being confined.
Some hunters find ways to work around their disabilities without any assistance from the state.
I have spoken to individuals with severe handicaps paraplegics who actually have hunted from a tree stand by pulling themselves up with their arms, Mullan said. Russell Wolfe also chooses to make his own way. The fall broke his back and left him paralyzed from the waist down. I dragged myself out of the woods, said Wolfe, who had been hunting since he was 12. That was 400 yards that I had to drag myself.