| There are times when the hunters will
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| | Pointing my gun barrel ahead, I
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| face some danger, specially the danger
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| | cautiously peered into the cave. My heart
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| from the wild animal's attach such as
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| | came into my mouth for I detected
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| bear. What will be the best way for him
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| | movement in the dark recesses. I did not
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| to do?
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| | lose complete control, however, although
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| My companion looked at me, I looked at
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| | the gun barrel wobbled so that I could
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| him, and the same idea hit us at the same
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| | not center the sights on the animal. I
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| moment. What would have happened if we
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| | don't like to shoot unless I am
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| had hit that bear? Would we have killed
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| | reasonably certain of my target, and by
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| it or would we have wounded it? In either
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| | the time I had settled down enough to do
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| case it would have fallen and landed in
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| | serious work with the gun, I had
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| or near our canoe. A dead bear would have
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| | recovered composure enough to identify my
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| broken the canoe in half, falling from a
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| | game as a porcupine. What a letdown! I
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| hundred feet. But suppose the bear had
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| | never saw a bear or a deer that day,
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| been wounded? Think of the situation. Two
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| | although I found a wild bee tree in a
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| men and a wounded bear struggling in the
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| | swampy area that I could use as a bait at
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| water within eight feet of each other.
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| | some later date, to attract a bear to me
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| What a scene for a movie shot!
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| | as I waited in a stand nearby. I never
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| The best of us will make mistakes of
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| | did.
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| judgment at the unexpected sight of game.
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| | You probably don't know it, but I am a
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| Luckily we both missed the bear. It took
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| | reformed poacher. No, the wardens didn't
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| us nearly an hour to find a landing place
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| | reform me. I woke up to the fact that
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| and to climb to the spot where the bear
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| | such actions are not fair to you boys, to
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| had been. We didn't go deer hunting that
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| | the rest of the guides, or to the people
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| evening.
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| | of Maine. I have even stooped so low as
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| Another time a small group of us went on
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| | to sell deer to unsuccessful hunters, but
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| a combined deer and bear hunt near the
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| | in some of these cases it was sympathy
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| town of Emden, down state, where bears
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| | for them rather than money that
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| had been doing some damage. Now bear
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| | influenced me. I hate to see any hunter
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| hunting is a great sport, but hunting
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| | who has hunted diligently for a week or
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| Maine bears is a tough proposition. I am
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| | so go back home without his deer. Again,
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| not good enough to risk my guiding
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| | I believe that any man who is willing to
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| reputation by handling bear hunters. If
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| | spend his money here hunting should have
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| you think our bears are no different from
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| | some concrete return. I have no sympathy
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| other bears, just ask some of the best
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| | for the man who sits around camp all day,
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| bear hunters in the south what they think
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| | drinking and playing poker instead of
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| of our product. There are some pretty
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| | getting out into the woods and enjoying
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| cagey animals in the Maine woods-and they
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| | our great out-of-doors. I don't care
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| are not all wild.
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| | whether he goes home empty-handed or not;
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| We split up and started to hunt, each in
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| | he has got just what he came for. But the
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| his own individual manner. I was not too
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| | case of the unsuccessful one who has
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| experienced with- bear hunting, yet I
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| | hunted diligently is different.
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| knew the chances of seeing a night-loving
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| | If a hunter see the threat from a wild
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| bear roaming around in the daytime were
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| | animal, it is better for him to keep
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| pretty slim. Traveling through the woods,
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| | himself in a hiding place until the
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| I checked signs of both deer and bears.
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| | threat pass. It is better than if he has
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| There were plenty of both and the strong,
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| | to face the wild animal face to face
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| unmistakable smell of bears was in the
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| | which can cause him into trouble. Deer
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| air. I poked around in the likely hiding
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| | hunt is a hobby which is exciting to the
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| places, finally coming to a large boulder
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| | people who can enjoy it and take the
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| where there was a good-sized cave under
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| | great fun of it, even he can get the deer
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| the rock.
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| | or not for the day.
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