Posted on 09/28/2010 5:40:10 PM PDT by george76
Jessica Olmstead has no problem staring down wild animals. The 17-year-old Harper Creek High School senior has taken up one of nature's oldest, and possibly most dangerous sports, hunting.
In the middle of August, Olmstead and her father, Tim, took a hunting trip up to Oba, Ontario, Canada, where the high school senior shot down a bear more than twice her size.
"When I go out hunting, it's really exciting," Olmstead said. "Whenever I see a bear I just want to go at it. When you're hunting, your heart is racing, your blood is pumping, and you feel that adrenaline rush. I really love to hunt."
Olmstead killed a 448 lb. black bear with a Matthews Passion bow and arrow set, designed for women, from a little over 16 yards away.
"The bear was the first animal I killed with the bow," Olmstead said. "As soon as my dad got it for me I was immediately comfortable and I was ready to use it the next day."
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Earlier this month, Olmstead caught a 20 lb. salmon in Lake Michigan
But can she cook and is she hot in a bikini?
nature’s oldest, and possibly most dangerous sports, hunting.
no bias there
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Another good Republican in the making.
You forget, wealth—does she stand to come into a large inheritance?
bowhunter girl!
I see a Japanese anime coming with lots of fan service... lol
When I lived in Michigan, the bag limit for Black Bear was one, for the rest of your life. If you got a bear, you could never have a license again. I wonder if she’s SOL for hunting bear ever again?
a bear more than twice her size.
If the article read "almost 4 times her size", I would say yea, lets see the bikini.
But since it says "more than twice her size" that lends one to think that she may be near the 200 lb. mark...........
I'm being facetious of course, good going for the girl............
“...shot down a bear more than twice her size.”
448 lbs?
I hope it’s more than 3 times her size!
448 / 3 = 149.33
That was the first thing that popped out to me, too.
You can’t argue that it was dangerous to the bear.
Great story and a remarkable young lady, sounds like she’s got the huntin’ bug.
She must have done everything right to get a bear that size with a bow and her first kill. Congratulations to her and her teacher Dad.
This will not make PETA and NOW happy. She isn’t supposed to be in the woods killing bears. She is supposed to be in the abortion clinic killing her babies.
no bias there
It is also categorically false. Statistics prove that hunting is one of the safest sports.
Let’s see the PU Truck she drives.
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