APP.com: After 30 years, NJ quadriplegic hunter takes aim
James Cap, a quadriplegic since a Nov.4, 1979 high school football accident, who hunts from his wheelchair is still wearing his hunting license as he watches television after returning home Tuesday, Dec.8, 2009, in Manville, N.J., from the shed where he hunts with an apparatus that he uses to aim and fire his shotgun.
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In a wooded area up a dirt road off an interstate highway, Jamie Cap peers down the sight of his new shotgun at a target about 40 yards away. He adjusts the angle by nudging a toggle switch, then fires. An ear-shattering report echoes off the trees and nearby cars, and Cap is pushed back a few inches by the force of the blast. He turns and nods his head — the only part of his body he can completely control. It has been three decades since Cap last fired a gun — on Nov. 3, 1979 — and he remembers it as if it were yesterday, mainly because of what happened the next day: a high school football game, a head-on tackle and a neck injury that left him a quadriplegic and robbed him of hunting, one of his lifelong passions. Or so he thought.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/14/2009 7:00 AM 
Categories: Recreation
Tags: NRA quadriplegic hunting Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs gun
Categories: Recreation
Tags: NRA quadriplegic hunting Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs gun
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