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( Michigan ) Battle Creek girl bags 448 lbs. black bear on hunting trip
The Enquirer ^ | 9/28/2010 | Matt Campbell

Posted on 09/28/2010 5:40:10 PM PDT by george76

Jessica Olmstead has no problem staring down wild animals. The 17-year-old Harper Creek High School senior has taken up one of nature's oldest, and possibly most dangerous sports, hunting.

In the middle of August, Olmstead and her father, Tim, took a hunting trip up to Oba, Ontario, Canada, where the high school senior shot down a bear more than twice her size.

"When I go out hunting, it's really exciting," Olmstead said. "Whenever I see a bear I just want to go at it. When you're hunting, your heart is racing, your blood is pumping, and you feel that adrenaline rush. I really love to hunt."

Olmstead killed a 448 lb. black bear with a Matthews Passion bow and arrow set, designed for women, from a little over 16 yards away.

"The bear was the first animal I killed with the bow," Olmstead said. "As soon as my dad got it for me I was immediately comfortable and I was ready to use it the next day."

(Excerpt) Read more at wzzm13.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; battlecreek; bear; blackbear; bowhunting; canada; fishing; hunters; hunting; huntingtrip; michigan; oba; ontario; sugarspice; twanglist
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To: DefeatCorruption
...yet over and over we have posts of dogs killed by chainsaws, and an never-ending supply of animal-abuse stories...

Liar.

Corrupt, infiltrating, liberal liar.

IBTZ

41 posted on 09/28/2010 7:18:51 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: george76; glock rocks; B4Ranch; Pete-R-Bilt; SouthTexas
It's a mans girls world out there...
42 posted on 09/28/2010 7:24:08 PM PDT by tubebender (Life is short so drink the good wine first...)
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To: george76; All

Very good for her. My 25 year old niece shot her second bear a week ago. It field dressed at 431 pounds, so it was over 500 live weight. She had to belly crawl to within 20 feet of it because it was fighting the dogs in very thick cover. She shot it with her 30-06. She is blond, pretty, single, and a serious Christian young woman.

I have been waiting for an email from her to post the whole story, but this seemed topical.


43 posted on 09/28/2010 7:25:28 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Navy Patriot

Atta girl!


44 posted on 09/28/2010 7:28:02 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: DefeatCorruption

Good grief, there’s ALWAYS one sap here.

Get a grip! God provides, this time it’s Bear Meat...


45 posted on 09/28/2010 7:31:44 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: DefeatCorruption
Are your cats indoor cats or outdoor cats? Man is a natural hunter. Nature is red in tooth and claw. Man almost always kills animals more humanely than the demise that they meet naturally.

I feel for your sensitivity. To go through life with that level of empathy for every living creature must be very painful.

46 posted on 09/28/2010 7:36:17 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: george76

Future Mama Grizzly


47 posted on 09/28/2010 7:37:27 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?Five?No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.)
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To: Ladysmith

And one heck a a fine shot. It ain’t easy to take that breath before you fire. The time and preparation isn’t for the faint of heart. Especially a 500lb black. I’ve never tried it.


48 posted on 09/28/2010 7:38:26 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: DefeatCorruption
"You ain't from around heres, are ya?"
49 posted on 09/28/2010 7:39:13 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: eyedigress

Hunted duck and geese, never moose or bear.

Good for the gal.


50 posted on 09/28/2010 7:52:35 PM PDT by BenKenobi ("Henceforth I will call nothing else fair unless it be her gift to me")
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To: marktwain

I feel for your sensitivity. To go through life with that level of empathy for every living creature must be very painful
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You have no idea...extremely painful.


51 posted on 09/28/2010 7:57:40 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: tubebender

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.


52 posted on 09/28/2010 8:07:07 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conflict is inevitable; Combat is an option. Train for the fight.)
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To: DefeatCorruption
Good hunters must have a certain empathy with their prey. It is hard to hunt well unless you have an understanding of your prey's motivations. A great many hunters that I know have this sort of empathy, and they know that life and death are inseparable in the natural world. A respect for your prey is a serious part of most hunters mindset. Their is no satisfaction or triumph in outwitting prey for which you have no respect. That is merely like the workings of a slaughterhouse. It may be necessary, but it is not satisfying.

I know this will sound rather alien to you, but it is a serious part of hunting culture in the west.

53 posted on 09/28/2010 8:07:20 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Their should be There. Sorry.


54 posted on 09/28/2010 8:08:19 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: DefeatCorruption

You believe what I said to you was harsh and it was.

You went off on everyone on this thread and all you have to back it up is emotion.

Being a conservative is more than voting. You can have beliefs and and convey them in a manner without belittling others.


55 posted on 09/28/2010 8:48:40 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: DefeatCorruption

To take down a bear with a bow and arrow is not easy and not for the faint of heart...You just stay in the city where you are comfortable....do you eat steak?....


56 posted on 09/28/2010 9:44:32 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: DefeatCorruption

Your post is Disgusting.

Hunting feeds people. Fishing feeds people.

Food does not just come from a box or a can at a grocery store.

Are you a Vegan ?


57 posted on 09/28/2010 9:47:21 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.


58 posted on 09/28/2010 10:26:17 PM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: DefeatCorruption

>>”...both sides should know they are in the game.”

If you had ever tracked a wounded bear through a swamp, you would realize you were BOTH “in the game.”

DG


59 posted on 09/29/2010 12:42:16 AM PDT by DoorGunner ("Rom 11: until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so, all Israel will be saved")
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To: DefeatCorruption

Are you some kind of sick PETA spy?


60 posted on 09/29/2010 1:16:23 AM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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