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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Good Job!
She deserves a conservationist scholarship!!!!
Excellent, we need more youth involved in hunting sports.
Foward to the peeps in Wyo....
Impressive...with a bow yet.
Bear is posing on MOOSE antler.
Hummmmmm.......
Is she gonna eat the bear or is this nothing more than another noble hunter who kills just for a trophy?
Way cool!
Either way is fine by me
Impressive........does she have an older sister?.....not for me...just wondering...
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.
Maybe the bear just needed killin......
I hope she stuff it ....great job she did
The Nuge would be proud.
Bear jerky... yummmmmmmmmm.
The Pope has a bear hunting trophy?
“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.
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!!!
Killing an animal solely for a trophy is immoral.
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