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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”

100% total BS.


61 posted on 09/29/2010 2:51:29 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: george76

Good for her!


62 posted on 09/29/2010 3:35:00 AM PDT by Think free or die
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To: DefeatCorruption
This board, as I was led to believe, was a grassroots political conservative give and take forum, to exchange views and opinions

yeah. so if you don't agree with someone, make a rational arguement, preferably one that doesn't include a statement like "grow a pair."
63 posted on 09/29/2010 4:17:58 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
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To: DefeatCorruption

I’m thinking its time for a troll hunt.


64 posted on 09/29/2010 4:23:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Think free or die

Hunting is kind of a rite of passage for most Michiganders outside of Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Kalamazoo.

I don’t hunt anymore but if the economy continues down this road I’ll be back out in the woods with something more than a camera.


65 posted on 09/29/2010 4:41:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: george76
An 11 year old boy bagged a 737 lber over the week-end in my area - Hunter, 11, bags massive bear here. May be the state record.
66 posted on 09/29/2010 5:05:35 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: cripplecreek

I think DefeatCorruption went into her hidey-hole. Send in the Viking Kitties to search.


67 posted on 09/29/2010 1:12:41 PM PDT by gigster
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To: gigster

Its not real sporting but we could set traps all around the entrance to its den.


68 posted on 09/29/2010 1:14:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: DefeatCorruption
Hunting is NOT a sport. In a sport both sides should know they are in the game.

Are you crazy? The girl had a bow and was only 16 yards from a 400+ pound bear. If she missed, or just winged that bear, it could cover those 16 yards in about 2 seconds and rip her head off with one swipe of its paw.

That is sport.

69 posted on 09/29/2010 1:21:03 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Time to Clean House.)
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To: Ditto

Hunting is NOT a sport. In a sport both sides should know they are in the game.
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Are you crazy? The girl had a bow and was only 16 yards from a 400+ pound bear. If she missed, or just winged that bear, it could cover those 16 yards in about 2 seconds and rip her head off with one swipe of its paw.

That is sport.
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Many people consider hunting and fishing as violent and the premeditated killing of wild animals and this is the first reason for which hunting and fishing cannot be accepted as a sport and, in fact, The International Olympic Committee has refused to include hunting and fishing as a sport. The basic rules of modern “sport” excludes any violence or killing against other persons or animals. Call it what you want, but it’s not a sport. A sport doesn’t kill anybody or anything.

Let’s just agree to disagree as there will never be a happy solution between anti-hunters and hunters. And yes, I am a conservative, Christian, pro-life and own a gun...and rarely eat meat, maybe a couple of times a year, and hate fish so never eat it. I don’t know what a vegan is, but suppose I could look it up.

The article caused an extreme visceral reaction and yes, I may be overly sensitive where animals are concerned, but I realize some of my remarks were uncalled for and for that I apologize to all who were offended.


70 posted on 09/29/2010 4:04:35 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: DefeatCorruption

So, can we assume you are a PETA member?


71 posted on 09/29/2010 4:50:46 PM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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To: DefeatCorruption

Do YOU consider fishing to be violent?


72 posted on 09/29/2010 4:51:49 PM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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To: DefeatCorruption
When you do eat meat.....how is that meat prepared?

And you have no idea what a vegan is?

I raised two kids....basically vegetarians.

You probably cannot tell me much...

73 posted on 09/29/2010 4:58:18 PM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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To: DefeatCorruption
I just lost all respect for your post here.

and rarely eat meat, maybe a couple of times a year?

So you do eat meat. You just want others to kill the animal. Out of sight. Out of mind. Willfull blindness, offed in a much less humane way than a hunter.

Do you have the same protest when a dog kills a squirrel? Wolves and moose? Cats and birds?

People are part of nature. That's how it is. If you don't hunt, that's your business, but stay the hell out of this girl's way.

74 posted on 09/29/2010 5:09:38 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: george76; grellis; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; ...
with a Matthews Passion bow and arrow set, designed for women, from a little over 16 yards away
Okay, that does it, I'm joining a health club.


75 posted on 09/29/2010 7:50:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: DefeatCorruption
Sir/Ma'am, your beliefs are sound and your standing by those principles is admirable.
Your apology is a most gracious action; it continues to speak well for you. You would be less had you not voiced your sincere beliefs in this topic. Well, maybe not "less"...but we would not have had the exposure to sincere, sound and thought out beliefs by a fellow conservative on this topic.

Be well and prosper.
76 posted on 09/29/2010 8:12:14 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: cripplecreek
"Hunting is kind of a rite of passage for most Michiganders outside of Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Kalamazoo."

Yup. I grew up in Kazoo. My 90 year old dad still hunts in southwestern Michigan. He lives to hunt and fish.

77 posted on 09/29/2010 9:01:57 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: cripplecreek

I hear that, trying to do that now with fish. Caught five one day, caught my limit the next, brother and I cleaned them, fried them up and ate them all with another brother’s help that night.

Not a whole lot going into the freezer *that* way!


78 posted on 09/29/2010 9:04:51 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: DefeatCorruption

>>”The basic rules of modern “sport” excludes any violence or killing against other persons or animals.”

Be pleased to consider “Olympic Boxing.”

DG


79 posted on 09/29/2010 9:23:05 PM 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: DoorGunner

>>”The basic rules of modern “sport” excludes any violence or killing against other persons or animals.”

Be pleased to consider “Olympic Boxing.”
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You’ve done your homework...so you know boxing is the only partial exception among the “official sports”, but rarely, if ever, results in death - and all parties are willing, competing athletes. In the animal world competition is not for pleasure, fun or profession. (some would argue except for cats of course).


80 posted on 09/29/2010 9:37:57 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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