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6 Tips Bowhunters Should Know

Archery shop owner gives skinny on staying in bow hunting game

6 Tips Bowhunters Should Know
Jerrell Dodson sits his office at Archer's Advantage in Little Rock after a full day helping outfit bow hunters from across the state. (Mike Suchan photo)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Dodson loves archery and bow hunting, he just wishes bow hunters weren’t such procrastinators.

As an owner of Archer’s Advantage, Jerrell Dodson’s been selling bows and archery equipment for more than 20 years and “using much longer.” He does two-thirds of his business from now until mid-October, when deer bow season begins in the state, and December and January.

“November is gun season; we don’t do much,” he said. “February, hunting is waning, or everybody has got everything. March, April, May, June, they don’t know who we are. We could burn, they wouldn’t care....

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