about a year after introducing lindsay Cindy’s real love is turkey
to shooting a crossbow, Grandpa Jack hunting with her crossbow.
She shot two really nice
caved in and bought himself one.
gobblers using the 100-grain
Just last year, lindsay took her largest Guillotine (another of Matt’s
buck to date, a 118 inch typical 8-pointer inventions).
with a split brow tine.
now, Cindy has a Stryker
today, lindsay misses her Grandpa Jack crossbow made by Bowtech
who recently passed away following a that she can cock herself. “it
four year bout with lung cancer. it was feels good to know that i can
during that cancer battle that Grandpa go hunting alone and not
Jack used his crossbow to take the larg- just have to be your typical
est deer of his life, a 168 inch deer they housewife. Cindy has to use a
tripod to hold up the weight
had nicknamed “the Walking Buck.”
of the crossbow, but that is
lindsay remains a proud crossbow hunt- much better than not being
er thanks to Grandpa Jack. With sparkles able to hunt. For years Cindy
in her eyes, lindsay proudly displays her had to rely on just hunting This lady hunter despite having no hands is able to
ten Point Crossbow logo tattoo on her when she and Matt could put bowhunt during archery season in Alabama at the 12th
upper arm. Her small frame is not as con- their schedules together, but annual Does and Bows hunt at Whiteoak Plantation and
ducive to shooting a regular bow, but now she has the opportunity draw her own crossbow using a cocking aid.
she is right at home with her crossbow for some independence.
can recruit more hunters to support
in her hand. as we talked, her 4-year-old
son pretended he was hunting, which Cindy just took a big 9-point buck on conservation efforts. With the fast paced
goes to show you that lindsay and other December 3rd. She shot it with her lifestyle that we currently live, a person
young women like her will carry on the Stryker and Matt’s newest invention, the can learn to shoot and remain more
proficient with less time investment than
hunting heritage and introduce many radian.
required by other bows. With the mindmore people to the wonders of the wild.
lynn, their daughter, began hunting by set of inclusion, that makes more of us
the time she was seven and shot her first to protect, preserve, and perpetuate our
Cindy Futtere
Cindy and her husband Matt have shared deer, a spike buck, by the time she was hunting heritage.
hunting as a vital part of their relationship since even before they married.
But Cindy suffered a stroke while she
was pregnant with their daughter lynn,
now 19.
eight.
Joella Bates is a five time 3-D archery
World Champion. She has taken 67 different species with a bow and arrow
and a deer with a crossbow. Joella was
a collegiate rifle champion and the first
4-year letter person in the sport of rifle
at the University of tennessee at Martin.
in 2009, Joella became the first and
only woman in history to take the Big 5
of africa with a bow and arrow. Joella
owns Operation Outdoor Outreach, a
company whose mission is to perpetuate the outdoors lifestyle by offering a
fundraising tool and outdoor programs
and hunts. Joella coaches archery, conducts clinics and seminars, and freelance writes for magazines and websites
around the world.
Cindy proudly shared with me that just
last weekend, lynn, a college freshman,
just took a doe at 45 yards with her
Stryker and 30 seconds later dropped
“i wasn’t sure that i would ever get to a spike buck both with the atOM. this
bowhunt with Matt again,” Cindy recalls. all goes to show you what a family that
Cindy does not have the strength to draw hunts together can do when they look
back and hold a compound or recurve for opportunities not obstacles.
bow because of the damage caused by
the stroke. You can tell from talking to i am very proud to say tha Ё