In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning Glass Company, walked into a small archery company in Detroit, Michigan. In his hand he ...

Fred Bear never shot a Pope and Young buck. And he hunted six years to get his first deer with a bow. Remember that, archers, should you become frustrated this fall. If a bowhunter of Bear's status ...

Fred Bear and Charlie Kroll hike into the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, and pitch a primitive base camp, to hunt whitetail deer. Fred Bear and the Maharaja of Bundi hunt India for the sambur ...

GRAYLING, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Preparations are underway in Grayling to unveil a statue dedicated to a bow hunting pioneer. On Saturday at City Park in Grayling, community members will unveil a ...

We never saw him again. Bowhunter Fred Bear with a giant Alaska brown bear. His track in wet snow was 14 inches long, and Ed believed he might have been the biggest brownie he’d ever encountered.

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The Grayling City Council has decided not to proceed, at least for now, with a proposal to rename the city park after Fred Bear, a bow hunting pioneer. The ...

This story, “Fred Bear at 80,” was published in the March 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning ...