The Bear facts

   Well as you know, I had a little time to bear hunt in Maine. For those of you who don't undertand how special the bear was that I shot , I'll fill you in. There is a record book for animals harvested with a bow called Pope and Young. The minimum skull measurement to make it into the book is 17". Mine scored
20-1/2" so it will rank quite high. There is another book called Boone & Crocket for animals taken with any weapon, rifle, bow, spear, handgun, etc. The minimum is 20" so I will make that book also.
   This bear is what every hunter dreams of when they go to the woods. On the back end, my picture is being used in the next edition of Bow Hunt America magazine in an advertisement to solicit readers to submit articles to the magazine for publication and the story will run in the magazine after the first of the year.

The Big One

You know I was a bit reluctant to come to a bear hunt camp for a week, I don't mind telling you. I envisioned no water, no electricity, boredom, etc. while Rob went to the woods to do his thing. We are on a budget so I didn't know what this would set us back. Rob was here 10 years ago so he worked out with the guy who owns this camp to do maintenance work around camp in exchange for the hunting. Yesterday was the first day in the woods for this week's new group. Rob called me at dusk to say he had just killed a monster bear with his bow. He could hardly contain himself. It took 6 people until about 9:30 to get it out of the woods. The owner of this hunt camp said it could be a Maine 2010 state record killed by a bow. It weighed in at 455 pounds!! I do not want to steal any of Rob's thunder here, I am sure a story from him will follow shortly with pictures. I just want to say watching my husband float around camp basking in all this glory was so worth coming here. This is a once in a lifetime experience for a hunter and I am so thankful I was here to be a part of it.