Fred Bear Quotes

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• I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living…
• Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become…
• When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter…
• I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the…
• The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind
• Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself…
• Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.
• If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle…
• If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.
• A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be . . . time to commune with your…
• A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of…
• I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our…
• The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains…
• Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country,…
• You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life
• I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to…
• When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.…
• There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.
• I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed…
• If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

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