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Hunting has more meaning when there's a good story behind it, and this deer hunt has such a story. Kids with Disabilities Adventures gifted a deer tag to James Fitzgerald. James has Downs Syndrome and has never hunted before. You see, when James was young, his father died in an work accident. That dad was Walter Fitzgerald, a DWR biologist who worked in the 80's and 90's. In 1992, a tractor fell on him when he was loading it for transport to a wildlife management area in Faust, Utah. That WMA is now named after Walter. Sportsmen, along with King's Camo, KWD Adventures, and the Minnie Mod CWMU, combined forces to take James and his family out of a hunt in memory of his father, and to make new memories for the family.
