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Author Topic: Fred Bear's birthday today  (Read 317 times)

Offline portugeejn

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Fred Bear's birthday today
« on: March 05, 2008, 02:35:00 PM »
March 5th, 1902.  Shoot a bow in his honor.

Ron

Offline Labs4me

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Re: Fred Bear's birthday today
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2008, 04:30:00 PM »
It's funny, I was sitting here thinking the same thing earlier this morning. It occurred to me that if he were still alive, he'd be 106 today.

I was fortunate to meet him in 1987, the summer before he passed. I asked him if he would sign the back of my entrance ticket to a bowhunter rendezvous that was held in Harrison, Michigan that year (if memory serves me correctly). Shortly after his passing, I had that ticket with Fred's signature on it, along with a photo of Fred framed together and they hang on the wall of my great room still to this day.

He was an amazing man and his story epitomizes America at its greatest- and worst.
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"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might." - Henry David Thoreau (Before the advent of compound bows with 85% letoff)

Offline doctari

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Re: Fred Bear's birthday today
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2008, 04:40:00 PM »

Happy Birthday Fred, I shot 106 arrows today. It was nice to get outside for a while. Happy hunting, Mark
"So long as the new moon returns in heavan a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold the hearts of men."   Maurice Thompson The Witchery of Archery

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