Well, I don't have a lot to add at this point, but will add a line or two.
I don't remember much about the trip north for this hunt, other than it was long. With good company, though, it was more than tolerable and passed pretty routinely.
The area we would be hunting was far in the northern counties of Minnesota. Baiting restrictions were far more lax in those days as was permit aquisition.
Clyde was a premier bear guide and really new his stuff. He had many bait stations established and most of them were working with multiple bears checking and feasting at the all meat baits.
At the time, I had worked for a company that was associated with a bakery for a large retail grocery chain and had aquired 40 or 50 pounds of assorted cakes and other sweets for addition to the baits. Just to sweeten the deal, so to speak.
As was the norm for these group hunts we assembled from all points of the compass. My old friend Russ would haul in from western Wyoming, with the rest of us from Missouri... Gary and Tim from the western part of the state near Kansas City and me from the eastern part of the state.
My memory is a little cloudy on the equiptment particulars, but I know I was using an all osage laminated Hill style longbow of my own manufacture. It was a stiff mother at 70# and it pushed a cedar shaft with big Magnus I along with authority.
Russ and Gary both were shooting one of my longbows. I don't recall what Russ was shooting for broadheads at the time (probably Ace Standards), but I'm almost positive Gary was shooting Pearson Deadheads.
We were all champing at the bit for the hunt to begin.
Topic: It's Time for another Bear Hunt (Read 1121 times)
