Christine and Bob Arndt started the Beau Arndt Foundation as a way to honor their son and channel their grief into something positive.
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Shane Bitler was a close friend of Beau Arndt. He wanted to start a youth turkey hunt to continue Arndt's tradition of getting kids into the outdoors.
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Bob Arndt smiles as Bryce Atchison walks up with a turkey he shot Saturday morning on the Beau Arndt Foundation youth turkey hunt.
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Bob Arndt smiles as Bryce Atchison walks up with a turkey he shot Saturday morning on the Beau Arndt Foundation youth turkey hunt.
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Bob Arndt briefs participants on Friday's gathering for the Beau Arndt Foundation youth turkey hunt near Americus. His son, Beau, was killed while goose hunting in 2007.
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Christine Arndt, right, hands out gift bags to kids on the youth turkey hunt.
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Cassie Lane, 9, checks out here gift bag before going on her first turkey hunt. She was one of five kids from the Emporia area taken on the hunt.
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From top left, Christine and Bob Arndt, Shane Bitler and Bryce Atchison with the turkey the boy shot Saturday morning.
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Cassie Lane, of Emporia, listens to instructions at a Beau Arndt Foundation youth turkey hunt. The foundation was started to honor a fallen young hunter and get more youth into the outdoors.
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Rope Uhl, of Americus, counts the number of pellets his shotgun pattern put into the head of a wild turkey target.
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Friends often stop at Beau Arndt's grave and leave hunting and fishing mementos for the young hunter who died in 2007.
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Vance Ralstin, left, gives shooting instruction to Cassie Lane. Ralstin is one of many volunteers to help with the Beau Arndt Foundation.
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Cassie Lane gets some last second instructions on how to hold and aim a shotgun.
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Rope Uhl practices with a slate turkey call he got at the Beau Arndt Foundation youth turkey hunt on Friday evening.
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