Lose, an injured law enforcement officer from Iowa, is paralyzed after a shootout 9 years ago. His hunting trips are completed with the help of an Action Track wheelchair. (Steve Bowman photo)
By Steve Bowman, OutdoorChannel.com
LA CYGNE, Kan. -- Chris Allen was just looking for television show ideas when the idea behind Hunting for Heroes snuck up on him.
Allen and a friend were putting together a fall schedule of outdoor shows surrounding faith and hunting. Allen, a Special Agent with the ATF, wanted to do a couple of hero hunts involving law enforcement officers.
During the course of reaching out to those within the law enforcement community, he started learning some disturbing things.
“When I started calling some guys I knew, I found they had been involved in a rolling gun battle and one was paralyzed,’’ Allen recalls. “I began thinking there had to...