Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources News Release

Bow season takes a bow on “Kentucky Afield” television this weekend 

Frankfort, Ky. – Archery hunters enjoy a season lasting nearly four months to take a deer in Kentucky. We go into the woods for some of the triumphs and frustrations the season brings this weekend, Dec. 8 and 9 on “Kentucky Afield” television.

Host Tim Farmer carries his bow and his patience through Boone, Woodford and Franklin counties for a shot at a doe. With the factors of weather and missed opportunity, we learn that wild game moves on its own schedule. For the archer, it pays to be drawn and ready. 

In the western coalfields, Farmer joins two-time world champion archer Jennie Richardson in pursuit of wild turkey. Richardson serves as Kentucky’s National Archery in the Schools Program coordinator, a program that reaches thousands of students each year with Olympic-style archery. The archery ace reflects on her accomplishments and the difference the sport is making for kids statewide. Kentucky’s school archery championship is scheduled for March 18, 2008. 

 “Kentucky Afield” is a production of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. It is the longest continuously-running outdoor television show in the nation. “Kentucky Afield” airs Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Eastern /7:30 p.m. Central and is repeated on Sunday at 4 p.m. Eastern/3 p.m. Central on KET 1.