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The bow hunter 's deer season is in October 9 s bright blue weather. 



Johnny, Get Your Bow 



by Mary R. Zimmer. . . photographs by John Calkins 



GUIDES in the Canadian north woods generally take a dim 

 view of the hunter who totes a bow instead of a rifle. They 

 know their popularity depends on how many trophies they 

 help to bring back, and they prefer guns. So when Fred Bear 

 of Grayling, Michigan, set out to hunt moose in the Ontario 

 wilderness he kept mum about his weapons. Not until he was 

 well up north did he unpack his bows and arrows. The guides 

 took a long look, glumly concluded they were stuck with a loony. 

 A few days later, cruising on a tiny lake, they spotted a bull 

 moose nibbling his breakfast from the lake bottom near the 

 far shore. While the guides stayed back, hidden by tall reeds, 



