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Washburn has seen it all from behind a bow

By Brett Pauly
ESPN Outdoors senior editor

Saturday, May 12, 2001

Hunting was a mix of passion and necessity when Jarrod Washburn was a kid. Dad was a police officer in small-town Wisconsin before working in a factory in another small town. Mom had different jobs throughout the years — as a seamstress, Washburn said, "sewing different odds and ends," then working at a grocery store and later at the local bank. Taking game was expected of young Washburn. Not surprisingly, he maintains an offseason regimen of hunting every day back home in lonely Danbury, ...

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