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Article: Dead to rights. (bear hunt)
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- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 1985
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I had been hunting moose and caribou on a lonely Arctic river in Alaska for 20 days. It was my first solo hunt in the Arctic. In a way, it was a personal test to see if I could survive a month in the wilderness without companionship. I had taken a big caribou early in the hunt and, therefore, had a good trophy and a supply of meat. And after weeks of trying to outsmart a huge bull moose in a mile-long tangle of willow and birch downriver, I had finally shot him a few days earlier.
Then I made the acquaintance of the big black bear. For the past several days, I'd been packing the boned-out moose meat to my camp, which was four miles upriver from the kill site. ...