One can often tell what is important to a person based on the amount of time the individual spends doing it.
For James Raymond Landers III, or Jim to those who knew him, a large amount of his time was spent in the great outdoors. Jim was killed Sunday while bow hunting on land off Coven Abbett Highway. He was 50.
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