From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I don't believe in making people into saints or Gods.
I do however share some of the same passions, the same mindsets, and the same goals as many, including this man.
Take a good hard look at these photo's and tell me what you see.
Then go watch some modern videos.
I'll save my comments for now. But rest assured i'll post them later.
Keep in mind, Fred was one of the archery greats, traveled the world wide, shot many trophies, yet photo's like this tell a whole lot more.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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i'll give you a hint...the words.. joy, and hunt.
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From: Marshallrobinson
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I have about worn out the fred bear collection of DVD's I have. Some of the best films out there.
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From: bearhunter
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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he has a small buck and is tickled to death with it
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From: Robert E Brigham
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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" A Deer" = a trophy for a true bowhunter congrats Papa Bear!! REB
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Yup, a happy hunter.
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From: Marshallrobinson
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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lack of camo/face paint. Not fist pumping or riding his bow like a horse. So much is different when compared to todays people...with few exceptions
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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look deeper the story behind this man goes much deeper. There are some other fellow hunters that i enjoy reading of their accounts in the field.
Fred Bear., G. Fred Asbell , T.J Conrads , Bill Langer, Howard Hill. Ralph Blackwelder, Mike Mitten, Fred Anderson, E.Donall Thomas.
I share something in common with these men, sadly it's disappearing.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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And i'm not just referring to traditional archery which actually is holding it's own maybe even growing in interest
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From: col buca
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Simply put a Hunter.
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From: TradTony
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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His smile is larger than the trophy.
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From: Panzer
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Humility
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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It's not disappearing, Shade, it's just not good television for the goober group. Lots of folks here and other places enjoy just like Fred did. Sometimes we are guilty of judging the masses by what we see from the few. Not fair to do that.
Most folks around here are more like that Fred photo. And, yes, there are a number who aren't, but they have always been around and get notice more. Love that photo...makes me feel good.
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From: TJK68
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Joyful simplicity at it's finest. Not the size of the trophy that matters, just the experience it's self. Mr. Bear was truly a great man! Tom
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From: BigOzzie
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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He has a humble, kind, gentle, look to him. Very grandfatherish. No self promotion, no product promotion, just the love of the hunt. oz
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From: South Farm
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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An old man with wrinkles and no fake blonde hair or big boobs. How he ever sold anything is beyond me! LOL!
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From: Grey Fox
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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The man in the magazines that that led me to deer hunting in the 60's. Thanks.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Actually George you are exactly right. Thanks for the reminder.
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From: cedar flinger
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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He was all class. I bought the video collection and would highly suggest any trad hunter do the same.
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From: robert
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I see a happy hunter with his trophy.
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Besides the obvious, smile and plaid shirt, is that a compass on the back of his glove?
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From: bodymanbowyer
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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A big sh.. Eating grin and a good ending to a Hunt! Memorable I'm sure! Jeff
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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i'll add yet another clue..."balance"
and i'm not referring to the ability to remain upright.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Here is another picture of Fred with a "trophy" bear
Fred was a member of the explorers club, The boone and crocket club, and the pope and young club, was awarded the NFAA's W.H Compton medal of honor, and was a member of the safari club international, and also the outdoor writers of America.
I mentioned the clues of "joy", "hunt" and "balance"....I see them in both these pics.
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From: MAGICMAN
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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A fine example of how hunters should strive to carry themselves. A love for the outdoors based on the whole expierience not the trophy size. This is a little of what I see!
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From: Chief RID
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Anyone that thinks Papa Bear did not use self promotion and product promotion is truly incorrect. He was a marketing genius to say the least. He was his product. By all accounts a great hero of the sport and a gentleman. He surrounded himself with innovative people and had courage in business and in the field that is beyond question.
He obviously loved his work and loved to hunt and was fearless at both.
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From: SWAG
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I see one candle an with Fred's light, it lights up the darkest room to lead our way each day... God Bless Fred Bear!
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From: Viking_hunter
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Unless they shoot a "Book" buck, it doesn't make it on T.V. anymore. Too many "Managed" bucks to choose from I guess? Then when you watch the host of the show shoot a nice buck, he is more relieved than anything. It's like a salesman meeting his quota.
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From: Will tell
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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He's happy, happy, happy.
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From: SHOOTALOT
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I see a real happy bow hunter that looks like a normal everyday person.
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From: Stump Buster
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Here's what I see...
A captured moment in time that almost tells us everything about the events leading up to the exact moment the picture was taken. You have a happy man who appears to be enjoying the moment, but more importantly, he is sharing space in the image equally with his quarry and the equipment used to take the respected animal's life. The fact he is "Sharing" the space with the animal and not putting himself in the center of the photo speaks volumes about the man and his love of the outdoors. We can also get a feeling of being there from the foliage that frames the photo. We know it was sunny and dry, but likely cool in the morning based on the clothes he is wearing. Speaking of the clothes, a simple but effective combination that obviously worked well in this scenario, combined with the photo quality also helps us place the photo into a specific time in our recent past. There's just enough left out to let our minds wonder about the events leading up the moment the picture was taken, but there's enough IN the picture to motivate us to try and make similar memories of our own.
That's what I see and what I try to explain in Hunter Ed to students when it comes time to break out the camera. Let the picture depict respect of the quarry, land and equipment. Place yourself into the photo, but balance it with the rest of the story, so the viewer can "be there" with you and experience a little of what you just lived.
Yep, That's what I see.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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good observations...so far i've used the words. "joy" "hunt" "balance" i'll add another....."content"
i'll post my thoughts later.
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From: CMF_3
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Great pic.
You can't rule out the possibility that the guy taking the pic farted or made an off-color joke haha. Bear and his hunting buddies were first-rate cut ups and practical jokers.
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From: Trad-Hunter
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Not a trophy hunter, happy to be hunting his way.
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From: r-man
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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he's a lefty, thats why he was so good.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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oh i don't know..i think we can add what you and ottertails are saying.."dignity"
so.."joy", "hunt", "balance", "content", and yes "dignity".
I'll wait awhile longer,for more input, then we'll put it all together and see what we end up with.
....putting things in there right perspective.
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From: 4nolz@work
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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a guy with a dream
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Humility, happiness, contentment, joy. From that face and smile he couldn't be any happier if the buck had 50 points. Wish more hunters were like this...
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From: shade mt
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I see a man that turned his passion for bowhunting and archery into a career.
I see a man that found "joy" in simple things, though he traveled the world.
I see a man that didn't take the "hunt" out of hunting.
I see a man that had "balance" though he in fact shot many trophy animals and used the service of guides ect...other times found him hunting the upper peninsula or the canyons of the west for muley's or wherever, with friends.
though he was in fact a trophy hunter, He did not let the obsession for trophy's cloud, or distort his love for hunting, he was also "content" Fred Bear, believed every animal harvested with a bow was a trophy.
He did not hunt, to gain approval of others, It was not following peer pressure that made him great.....
It was his love for hunting, the joy of simple things, a man of balance, a man content in the great outdoors, a man that's dignity, made him a legend.
That forkie is symbolic, of a hunter, of the great outdoors..of a dream, of a passion.
I believe in those things. Put the "hunt" back in hunting.
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From: NOVA7
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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Owen Jeffery said Fred bear used to to treat everyone the same he showed the same respect to the garbage man and the millionaire.
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From: camodave
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I see a man who still has a number of animals high up in the record books perfectly content to shoot a forkhorn
DDave
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From: DarrinG
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I see a gentleman who appreciates and enjoys all the Good Lord has given us. I see a good steward of the land and critters. I see a mentality of the "old school" paths that most today have no idea what is.
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From: babysaph
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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I guess that small buck was on his hit list and so he put the smack down on the freak nasty.,great pic.
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From: Woods Walker
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Date: 11-Sep-14 |
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What do I see?
A man who really did "get it"!
It's amazing that he did it without a trail cam or a smart phone.
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From: Red Trail
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Date: 12-Sep-14 |
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I see what I want to be when I grow up...
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From: TradTony
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Date: 15-Sep-14 |
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I see someone who made it to the Happy Hunting Grounds.
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 15-Sep-14 |
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I see integrity, large or small don't matter life is good for Fred he was at the right time and all the right places. If he was here today I wonder how any of them would really be with all the internet BS. All the wantabe stuff is sickning anymore. Fred knew who he was and where he was going and how he was planing on going about it.
Its all arat race today for the most part in the fast lane wide open to go no where.Dog eat dog big money fighting dogs and all this perverted stuff we see and read about and hear about.
Stand firm in who you are and help as many as you can.LOL
We aren't mind readers and we all have many members. If you notice he wasn't an individual he was a inavater and shared.
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From: Old Crow
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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I see a hunter who is enjoying the hunt, the kill and the outdoors, it's a photo that is taken of Fred without him looking into the camera. Whoever took this photo wanted a natural of Fred, not a "staged" looking into the camera "hero" shot. This photo of Fred is as natural as the deer and woods around him, and it shows the pure joy of hunting. Not a staged photo!
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From: 1Longbow
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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I see respect and joy in what ever to take . No " is he a shooter" just a bowhunter doing what a bowhunter does .
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From: Live2Hunt
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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Fred Bear is the reason I started bow hunting. I remember sitting in class one day many years ago and there was a picture of him standing beside a huge Elk he had killed with his recurve. If you have never read his books please take the time to do so, it will surely warm your soul.
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From: Little Delta
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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A symbol of an era past and not likely to be experienced again. I fell lucky to have lived it.
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From: BUCKSNORT
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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Am 69 years OLD.. Thank you Fred Bear for getting me started in the greatest sport there is.. Have seen many interviews with this man.What you see is one of the good guys, I loved the interview with his employees. Mr Bear this and Mr Bear that. LOVE and RESPECT.Ya just don't see to much of that anymore..As for the Buck in the picture, it's all about the MAN Fred Bear. Look at the smile)))------------->>
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From: Hoyt
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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Whitetail deer were much harder to kill back in those days in most of the US. I read many times back then in the outdoor mags that most people thought a B&C whitetail was one of the hardest animal to kill.
He looks happy to have killed a whitetail buck to me. I remember watching one of his shows on American Sportsman when they were hunting whitetail and the only footage of one on the whole show was a whitetail loping off in the distance.
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From: Ghostinthemachine
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Date: 16-Sep-14 |
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It's a great pic showing the satisfaction and genuine happiness of success.
Fred Bear was the man.
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From: Codjigger
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I see a man who is happily aware That his glass is more than half full.
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From: BadKarma
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I see a true hunter that reveled in the journey more than the destination.
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From: Cotton Mouth
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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he was not doing it for money just loved the great out doors
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From: benzy
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I see a picture of Fred with the last buck he ever shot in Michigan. If I remember the story correctly.
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I'm not one to speculate or overly romanticize. I simply see a picture of Fred Bear smiling and kneeling over a dead deer. It's a nice picture.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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i guess it just struck me funny. Here is Fred Bear a guy with more trophys than most of us could ever hope for. And he's tickled with a forkie.
And here we are today..joe pro the "bone collector".swooning over G-2's rack scores ect..hunting over bait, food plots. leases...scouting with surveillance equip. ect...patting ourselves on the back, like we are Gods gift to hunters.
no offence intended, but i've said it before hunting is effected by fads just like everything else...when it's "cool" to "smoke" em.....scoring a rack is nothing new the pope and young club was around before most all of us were born.
But Fred Bear and many of the old bowhunting legends were Hunters...not some fad chasing wanna -be's.
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From: Tom McCool
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I see a picture of anyone of us who really "get it". Just happens to be Fred in that one.
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From: Frank V
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I see a man who is way greater & helped the archery sport more than any of the modern day whoopers & hollerers ever thought of. I see a gentleman who has taken a deer smaller than a lot of his deer who is smiling, he appreciates he deer he just took & isn't degrading it like some of the high 5ing whooping & hollering I've seen on TV. I've even seen the some of the modern killem & sellem actors pick up the deers head, look at it for a minute, & drop it not set it down carefully.
This deer I'd bet was taken fair chase & it's obvious it means something to him. Maybe it's just me, but most of the modern hunters on TV & I use that term loosly turn my stomach.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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Before anyone gets there feathers ruffled over my above last post.
Take note i used the term "we" meaning plural meaning i'm including myself.
Every now and then i'm tempted to get all caught up in the latest and greatest, make it easier.
Then i think, no...i want to keep the "hunt" in hunting. I don't want a quick and easy, lets just cut to the kill, I want to actually work to be proficient with my weapon, actually scout, actually hunt. and i'll kill my buck thank you..i have no desire to "smoke em"
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From: Jim
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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What do I see? Fred Bear with a fork horn he shot! LOL Jim :)
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From: Frank V
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Date: 17-Sep-14 |
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I started archery hunting in the early 60s, I started with a Bear Kodiak Hunter 48lbs, most of us shot cedar then too. This year I'm hunting with a green Bear Kodiak Hunter 52lbs!
Thanks Mr. Bear.
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From: overbo
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Date: 18-Sep-14 |
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Are the ears on that forkie a bit droopy?
FB's brown bear video sure started my fire.
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From: r.grider
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Date: 19-Sep-14 |
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I see a guy that enjoyed the hell out of life.
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From: voodoo
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Date: 19-Sep-14 |
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I see a man who was as happy getting his buck as he was spending a couple hours with a young man shooting junk along a riverbank.
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From: Alan Altizer
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Date: 19-Sep-14 |
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Here is a little story about Papa Bear and a kid. For those of you that remember Grousehaven, that was the time to see Mr. Bear, Fred the hunting buddy. You would see that smile a lot as he listened to others' hunting stories. Many years ago I had killed a big 13 point not far from Grousehaven. I was a young excited kid and excited to show it off to Mr. Bear. Several hands on the shoulders and pats followed and best of all were his smiles as he looked at my deer. Smiles bigger than the one of his deer. It struck me that he was happier for my success than if he had shot it. We had supper that night and he asked if I wanted to go with him the next morning. I was tagged out but I got to go with the master and watch his magic. Some of you may remember the old brush blind down towards the spring. We sat there that morning and saw several deer but he never picked up his bow. A squirrel dropped a cone that hit him and later played on the ground. He said there was a day that he would have had to shot at him for fun. This was one of his last hunts there as I understand the end of something special. I watched him day dream and he would smile as he looked far away, almost looking in the past. I finally asked what he was smiling about and he said he was in BC once and was about to draw on a bear when something dropped a pine cone on him. He said there had been a second bear that vanished into the bush behind him just moments earlier and he though the cone was that bear and he jumped and ran the shooter off. He said he had forgotten about that until the squirrel hit him earlier. In those few hours I realized he was just a man like the rest of us. No magic, just a lot of time in the woods and the knowledge that goes with it. That is where your photo's smile comes from. He had paid his dues over the years with countless days, weeks, and years of time just watching with a few shots now and then mixed in. He enjoyed the hunt, the lifestyle of being part of the wild. The kill was extra. I think that is why we all love traditional archery so much, it takes us home to a place where man was created to be..
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From: SHOOTALOT
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Date: 19-Sep-14 |
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Thanks Alan for sharing.
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From: Wheels2
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Date: 19-Sep-14 |
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I see a guy who appreciated any "trophy" regardless of the rack size. Shame the TV hunters don't feel that way now.
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