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Michigan teen bowhunter takes record 448-pound bear
yahoo.com ^ | Tue Sep 28 2010 | Cameron Smith

Posted on 09/29/2010 6:02:27 PM PDT by saganite

Jessica Olmstead is a 17-year-old senior at Harper Creek (Mich.) High School. In many ways she's like most teens; she worries about classes, gets excited about the next weekend and likes to hang out with friends. But Olmstead has a hobby that isn't shared by many of her peers: She's a big-game bowhunter, a pursuit which recently helped her land big headlines when she bagged a 448-pound black bear on a summer hunt in Canada.

According to Aaron Harris of the Battle Creek Enquirer, Olmstead considers herself a hunting natural. She relishes the adrenaline and excitement of a hunt. Despite the fact that the massive bear was her first big-game take (hunting parlance for a kill), Olmstead earned the Pope and Young Bowhunting record for trophy bear, according to the Enquirer

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TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: banglist; hunting; twanglist
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1 posted on 09/29/2010 6:02:30 PM PDT by saganite
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To: saganite

Good Job!

She deserves a conservationist scholarship!!!!


2 posted on 09/29/2010 6:08:08 PM PDT by waterhill (Who got their elk? I did not............)
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3 posted on 09/29/2010 6:09:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: saganite

Excellent, we need more youth involved in hunting sports.


4 posted on 09/29/2010 6:10:23 PM PDT by Concho
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To: saganite; Envisioning; ixtl

Foward to the peeps in Wyo....


5 posted on 09/29/2010 6:10:44 PM PDT by waterhill (Who got their elk? I did not............)
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To: Concho

Impressive...with a bow yet.


6 posted on 09/29/2010 6:11:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: saganite

Bear is posing on MOOSE antler.

Hummmmmm.......


7 posted on 09/29/2010 6:11:33 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent, for the coming of the Lord is nigh.)
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To: saganite

Is she gonna eat the bear or is this nothing more than another noble hunter who kills just for a trophy?


8 posted on 09/29/2010 6:18:25 PM PDT by Krankor
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To: saganite

Way cool!


9 posted on 09/29/2010 6:21:31 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Krankor

Either way is fine by me


10 posted on 09/29/2010 6:22:55 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: waterhill
Pretty serious looking bow for a 17yo girl.....

Impressive........does she have an older sister?.....not for me...just wondering...

11 posted on 09/29/2010 6:26:42 PM PDT by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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To: saganite

This young lady has got to be the future fantasy wife of some young man. A woman who loves to hunt.

Personally, I have no interest in hunting, but am all for those who do.


12 posted on 09/29/2010 6:27:23 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Krankor

Maybe the bear just needed killin......


13 posted on 09/29/2010 6:27:47 PM PDT by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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To: Krankor

I hope she stuff it ....great job she did


14 posted on 09/29/2010 6:40:04 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: saganite

The Nuge would be proud.


15 posted on 09/29/2010 6:41:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
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To: Krankor

Bear jerky... yummmmmmmmmm.


16 posted on 09/29/2010 6:58:27 PM PDT by irishtenor (Tag lines, they are not what they used to be...)
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To: saganite

The Pope has a bear hunting trophy?


17 posted on 09/29/2010 7:10:33 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Krankor

“Is she gonna eat the bear or is this nothing more than another noble hunter who kills just for a trophy?”

Who cares whether she eats it or it’s donated to a local tribe and she keeps the cape, she paid for it and it legal.


18 posted on 09/29/2010 7:11:07 PM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: saganite

This lady is tougher than me.
No way I’d go bow-hunting for something that could maul/kill me
if my back-up couldn’t kill it first!!!


19 posted on 09/29/2010 7:13:25 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Dusty Road

Killing an animal solely for a trophy is immoral.


20 posted on 09/29/2010 7:18:05 PM PDT by Krankor
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