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Mark Hunter
markhunter@myway.com
December 07, 1999

MY THIRD BLACK BEAR: I went to north western Ontario Canada last spring for bear hunting. Our camp was about 40 miles north of Minaki. Absolutly the most beutiful rugged northwoods country you will ever see. I thought this scenery only exsisted in old movies and picture books. First day of hunting buddy and I saw numerous bears but none the size we wanted. This was our third time for bear and we where only interested in 450lb + category. Day two of the 3 day hunt produced a 425lb black that Jack shot with his 375 H+H at about 90 yards. The shot hit him directly in the boiler room and the bear barly moved an few feet and dropped. It was late in the eaving and we had to work fast to field dress, quarter and take out the animal. We where to far in the woods to get him out in one peice. After a few pictures with the animal we worked for the next two hours to get this done, back to the dirt road where our guide met us with a pick up truck. Day 3 and I'm up to bat. This is my last chance for the 450+ I'm looking for. On this day by noon we see at least 3 black none close to even 300. Tired now we stop for luch along the banks of a small lake. We had back packes with survival gear and food for two days just in case for some reason we could not get out of the woods one night.While having a bite to eat we hear moving in the wood line that started about 20 yards off the banks of the lake. AT first we thought it may be another hunter so we both loudly called out our presence to what we thought was another hunter/person. Hearing no reply or any further movement, we got back to talking and eating. A few minuites later we again hear moving in the wood line this time further down the bank. Then we finally see, its a cow moose moving out of the woods to the lake. See enters the water in a shallow area and starts eating the aquatic plants. Seeing this was amazing. You can't understand just how big a moose is untill your this close. There huge intimadating animals. We finish off lunch and start to move on down the bank in the opposite direction of the moose towards a swap area that is frequnted by bear. We no sooner pack up and start moving when directly in front of us is a bear about 45 feet. Totally stunned I say to jack what now. We both froze and the bear after seeing us stopped dead in his trackes. He did not move towards us or move away. Both Jack and I knew that blacks will quickly run away from humans at this distance. Niether of us taking our eyes off the bear, Jack said to me that we have to shoot now. We both knew that this animal was showing sighns of agression. He was simmply standing his ground and grunting. He never moved towards us but we knew that we could not turn our backs, or try to get into thick cover of the woods. The sign this bear was showing where not to be trusted. We where fearful that if we tried to simply avoid him he would follow. We both bolted a round in our rifles. I was shooting a 30-06. I wispered to jack that the moment I shot he better be preparred to follow up with a shot if I miss the mark. It's hard to focus your 3x9x40 scope for a 40 foot shot when you have sighted for 150 yards. Non the less, while standing up I brought up my 30-06 and squeezed one off and hit him directly under the neck into his chest. Amazingly this animal ran into the woods and we heard him crashing thru the woods for some time. We noticed lots of blood and knew we I had good hit. We followed the blood trail for some 80 yards. Amazingly we found the bear dead less than 60 feet from where I stood when a pulled off the shot. This animal made into the woods and circled around back to whre we shot from. I could only imagine what would have happened if I did not hit im in the boiler room. This bear wieghed in at 432lbs. Not bad for 3 days in some of the best black bear country I have ever been in.

William "Russell" Love, Sr.
WRLOVE@PRODIGY.NET
November 04, 1999

On 9/10/99 I flew from NO,LA to Smithers British Columbia, Canada for a moose/caribou combo hunt. I arrived in camp at noon & wasn't legal to hunt till 4pm due to flying in. My guide & I were to leave 1st thing the next morning for a 5 hour horse back ride to the hunting area. That evening though about 5pm we went for a hike through the woods, saw lots of moose sign & about dusk we came to the river the camp was on & the guide turns down river.I say the camp is up river. We had left camp through the woods but in the direction the river was flowing. He says no but make me happy we walk up river following the winding bank for about an hour.The guide insists we turn around so reluctantly I follow him for about 3 hours. At 11pm in the pitch dark, we stop walking & build a fire. We have had no food, but river full of water to drink. We sleep on the ground next to the fire & it drops to high 30's that nite. At daylite we start back up river were the head outfitter finds us in his boat & carries us on up river to the camp. We arrive around 10am. I am assigned a new guide we take off on horses with 4 extra pack horses. We hunt hard for 3 day with no sign of moose. He takes me to the top of the mountain the 4th day to find caribou which we do but nothing I wanted to shoot. The next day we go back up & I find a beauty. It scored 369 b/c with 400 being book. The next day with pack further up the valley for moose. that evening we spot 7 different bull moose.We pick 1 out for the next morning & when we get up there is 2 bull moose across the river from our camp up the mountain at timberline. I want the biggest 1 up there so we plan our stalk. We ride horses 3& 1/2 hours to circle the mountain ridge & come up from behind. We stalk to the top ridge & spot the bull bedded down 625yds away (used the Bushnell yardage Pro 800). We stalk to within 290yds. The willows are getting to high to see him so we can't get any closer. I have to shoot off handed with my 7mm Rem.mag 1st in his left side lungs, he stands & faces me, I shoot again in the middle of his chest were he then turns his right side to me. I put a 3rd shot through the lungs again. He stands about 15 seconds longer & falls with a tremendous thud! He scored 186.5 with 190 being record book. It was a very exciting hunt with the Collingwood Brothers outfitters of Smithers British Columbia.

mel ramey
mramey @preferred .com
October 25, 1999

MY FIRST TURKEY I live in Northeast Tennessee and i go to Ohio Deer huntingevery year. My Grandfather which lives in Ohio told me the population of turkeys were on the rise and Ohio was making a Fall season. So my dad and I went to Ohio with our 12Ga.anyhow we come back with not 1 but 2 turkeys. We both shot one. Mine weighed 11lbs and his weighed 12lbs.

John Maples
Chinamoe @aol.com
July 28, 1999

How I got hooked on bowhunting. It was very early in the season,I was hunting on private land inside a Managed hunt area. Been there all day,no luck. I was sitting leaning agains't a big White Oak, it was getting late, I was smoking a corncob pipe,wind was in my face. Finally I got upbored and walked to look down a wooded fern covered ridge just in front of me near an old logging road. I climbed up in a forked tree to get a better view, I had left my recurve bow about 15 yds back where I was sitting. Suddenly across from me stepped out a 4-point buck. I was startled,I cramed the hot pipe in my pocket and as it burned my leg,I watched the buck take a few steps down the logging rd. and disappear behind me. I felt so stupid as I went back to where I was sitting. I was imagining what a shot I would have had,when another buck stepped out the same place as the first buck. I tried to draw my bow but the tree stopped my elbow,this buck was a 6-pointer. What bad luck. Suddenly a even larger buck,an 8-pointer stepped out. I found a clearing thru the bush where this buck would go if it walked like the others,there was a dogwood berry in the center of this opening. I fired hitting the buck high,it spun and ran back down the ridge. Later searching in the dark,I found about half of my arrow. We located the buck the next day at the bottom of the ridge. Boy was I ever hooked.

JORDAN
July 13, 1999

"THE BUCK I NEVER KNEW WAS THERE" I WAS HUNTING WITH DAD IN LOUSIANA THAT IS WHERE I LIVE. DEC.6 1996 THE HUNT BEGAIN AS I GOT IN THE STAND ABOUT 3:00. THE DEER WAS MOVING SLOWLY UNTIL ABOUT 5:20. I SEEN A SMALL BUCK ABOUT 150 YARDS SO I SHOT BECAUSE I HAD NEVER KILLED A BUCK. THE DEER TOOK OFF BACK IN THE WOODS.I WAS HUNTING ON A PIPELINE.THE DEER CAME BACK OUT SO I SHOT AGAIN OF COURSE I MISSED.DADDY HEARED ME SHOT SO HE CAME IN THE TRUCK TO SEE IF I HAD KILLED A DEER. ANYWAY HE SCARED A SPIKE OUT ON ME,BUT I DID NOT SHOT . THEN A MOSTER BUCK CAME OUT.SO I FIRED MY 243 TWICE. THEN DADDY GOT THERE AND WE WENT TO SEE IF I HINT A DEER.OF COURSE I HINT THE BIG ONE BY LUCK.BECAUSE I HINT HIM RUNNING THOUGH THE HEARTAT 166 YARDS WITH OPEN SIGHTS.MY BUCK HAS 5 INCH BASES A 11 INCH TINE WITH 23 INCH MAIN BEAMS,AND SCORED 138 AND 7/8.

wade wessling
yourday@wecnet.com
July 10, 1999

It was friday night before the 1998 deer opener and we were in the cabin and they were talking about a moose that was seen les than a mile from our hunting shack I hoped I would see it but knew the chances were bad and had a hard time falling asleep that night the next morning i had breakfast with the 15 (about) other guys including my dad (by the way i'm 11 years old ) back to the storie. I didn't get much breakfast cuz I woke up to late but at about 6:00am we headed out to our stand and we saw 33or so does walk by and a button buck and at about 9:00 or 10:00 i decided to go get some food cuz I was hungry from not eating enough so i got about half way back and there was a big hill in front of me and i heard a noise coming from the other side so thinking it was a deer i got my gun ready and kept on walking and when i got to the topit stoped and it was dead quiet so i yelled and it sounded like a buldozer and i raised my gun and a bull moose popped out in front of me at about ten to twenty yards and i freaked completely out i never knew how big they really were til now i ran one way and it ran the other.I live in the exact center of MN

WHITETAIL MASTER
whitetail mas/.com. 7/8/99
July 08, 1999

Once I was hunting in Craig County Va. where I always huntme and a friend went hunting and I didn't really want to go but he insisted so I went it was about 10:00 in the morn-ing when we left and about 12:00 I heard a shot go off an then shortly after that I heard two more so I went to find him and about the time I started to move over in a big thic-ket I saw a little doe running toward it so I shot it and killed it and gutted it out then started draging it by the way iy only weigth 70 pounds I run across my friend and he had killed a big doe so thats my story it's not much but I hope you enjoy it I guess the moral of my story is when you start filling like I was just rember never get discussed like me and hollow I QUIT because we know thats a fib there always one stand ing there looking you in the face this story is for all the young "BUCK MASTERS" keep hunting them whitetails good luck in your up coming season thank you for your time hunters god bless

Brian Gentry
run2darock2aol.com
July 02, 1999

It was January 30, 1999. It had rained the night before and was raining on the drive to the camp. I knew if the rain stopped the deer would be sure to move. After departing from camp on my four wheeler I rode up on a field which had a doe and a young 6 point in the field. Unfourtunatly I couldn't get a shot off. Once reaching my stand recalled the hunt a few days before when I missed a large 8 point. I was thinking about how that day ruined my season. The rain finally eased up and I began rattling. and as I looked back up from laying the horns down there stood the largest whitetail buck I had ever seen (while hunting). I raised the gun and aimed near the upper portion of his back. After the shot of lifetime I watched the large buck as if unharmed. I got down and soon picked up a faint blood trial that led to my buck. the buck is a 10 pointer with an 20 inch spread. the buck was taken in Lowndes county.

Nicole Stultz
June 26, 1999

One Jan. day I went off on my hunting trips with my guide, which just happens to be my dad. We sat under a pine tree with a blind. We were sitting there for a short time when we caught a glimpse of a buck. Just as I noticed the buck, it noticed me too. So that nice buck was off in the woods again. It was getting pretty late so we headed back to the truck. The next morning my guide said where do you want to go and I said, back where we were yesterday. It was still pretty early so I was not too worried about seeing any deer.When I saw a couple of does. They feed around us for a while and then went off into the woods.We did not see anything else that morning.That evening we went back to that same field, but sat a little further back because the direction of the wind. We got settled down and comfortable against the tree. A few minutes later I caught a figure in my scope while scanning the field. Just as my dad saw the deer and said it was up to me to kill it or not, I shot. The buck went down right where it stood. Dad said it was a tough shot because all I could see was its head and a little bit of its neck.This was my first buck. It was a non-typical six point.

Ray Hills
reh424@mindspring.com
June 20, 1999

This was one of my best fishing days. I was under a bridge in Alexander City,Alabama.I was fishing from the bank with a six inch blue and crome Redfin. This is a top water lurefor those who don't know. Well enought of that. I had been there about an hour,with out any hit's when all of a suddenthe silence was broken with the HOG of my life. I fought this fish for what seemed like 20 minutes and finally landed it. This fish weighted 9lb 10oz. It doesn't get any better than that.


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