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Aiming for happiness: Area families bond over annual Christmas hunt

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 12/24/09

Joey Howard's best Christmas present will come well before he unwraps any gifts.

Matthew Cole — For the Capital J.P. and Joey Howard, 9, of Mayo load up J.P.’s truck for their annual Christmas Eve Day hunt and discuss the upcoming trip. Joey, a fourth-grader at Mayo Elementary School, said hunting on Christmas is special

Before dawn today, the Mayo 9-year-old and his dad, J.P. Howard, headed out to hunt. It's Joey second Christmastime hunt, and the first with his own 20-gauge shotgun, which he got for his birthday last summer.

Depending on which of two locales the Howards end up at, the intended targets will either be geese or ducks.

"(It's the best present) because we're together and we hunt," said Joey, who is a fourth-grader at Mayo Elementary School. "I like hunting with him. (Because it's Christmas), it's more...

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