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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: “Fair Chase? What’s That?”
In the Preface to BAREBOW!, I mentioned that in early 1998 a friend suggested to me I ought to set my sights on pursuing and completing the North American Super Slam. Once the idea was implanted in my...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: One Whale of a Bear!
In April of 1999, I experienced one particularly exciting drama up in the Arctic, with which any 18th century whaling man from New England could readily have identified. Heart-pounding adrenaline...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: Mister Elkhorn and the River Rats
In a hunting camp, one hunter’s unrealistic expectations are sometimes spawned in the euphoric backwaters of another hunter’s extraordinary success and good fortune. Such was the case for me, following...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: The Wolf Dives for Cover
During the first couple of centuries that followed the arrival of the English, the Irish, the Scots, and the French in Newfoundland, an intensive extermination program took place that aimed to rid the...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: The Paralysis of Fear
As the wounded grizzly came running obliquely toward me, the first thing I noticed about him (other than his considerable size) was the bright red arc he was pushing in front of him in the shape of a...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: Bug-eyed at Five Yards!
The Canada moose was the last of the three subspecies of North America’s largest deer to succumb to my often-suspect hunting skills. Just as it had taken me three different hunts to finally bag my...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: Lovelorn Louie, Wily Willy, and Suicide Sammy
This is a story about three Sitka blacktail bucks. All of them had close encounters with me in the second half of November 2005, and two lived to tell about it afterwards. For storytelling purposes, I...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: “Tenting It” in the Land of Giant Bears
The hunt this story recounts will forever stand out in my memory for one reason in particular: the nighttimes were far more interesting and exciting than the daytimes. In late November 2005,...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: The Nevada Lottery-draw Tag, Part 1
No hunter can hope to claim the North American Super Slam without also taking the Grand Slam of the continent's four species of wild sheep. Undoubtedly---for a bowhunter, at least---the Grand Slam is...
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The BAREBOW! Chronicles: The Nevada Lottery-draw Tag, Part 2
If the reader thought Part 1 of this story had a lot of emotional ups and downs, you'd better fasten your seat belt for Part 2 of this continuing saga. Emotionally, it turned out to be the most violent...
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