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Hunters with heart

By John Geiger
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Seventeen-year-old Dakota Helmuth loaded his .243 and peered into the woods on a misty winter afternoon in Georgia. "If I wasn't here, I'd be playing video games or watching TV at home," said Dakota, who was diagnosed with brain cancer 10 years ago. But thanks to people like hunter Tim Brock and an organization called the Outdoor Dream Foundation, Dakota was 18 feet up a hickory tree eyeing a wide deer trail for any sign of movement. "You hear that?" said Brock in a hushed voice. He was 15 ...

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