Thursday, March 3, 2005
Editor’s Note: This is a regular series that profiles recreational activities in which students take part. If you hunt, fish, climb rocks, go canoeing or are an expert spelunker, The University Daily Kansan would like to share your story, and perhaps take part. Please contact Caleb Regan by calling the Kansan sports desk at 785-864-4858 or by e-mailing him at cregan@kansan.com.
Two years ago, Cameron Manuel took down a trophy black bear.
Manuel, a Wichita sophomore, said, “I’d always heard people say they look up at you, right before you shoot. Sure enough, he did.”
Manuel’s kill, in Salmon River Valley, Idaho, earned him a place in the record books of Pope & Young, a bow hunters organization that accepts for records only game killed by bow and arrow. When a kill surpasses a certain score (determined by the skull width and length), the hunter is entered into the record book.
In this case, the threshold was a score of 18. Manuel’s bear scored an 18.6.
Manuel said the bear weighed more than 300 pounds and stood about six feet tall.
He said his whole mind was consumed by getting off a good shot.
“People ask if I was scared, but it wasn’t scary. My heart was pounding, sure, but I did not want to miss that shot. I made the perfect shot, double lung, and hit a main vein causing him to die really quick. That’s important to me, minimizing the suffering,” Manuel said.
Some people people say hunting is cruel. But for Manuel, from an ethical standpoint, it’s better to hunt wild game than to eat store-bought meat.
“When people tell me it’s unethical, I ask when’s the last time you ate meat, or used cosmetics that were tested on animals? I would rather go out into the wilderness and give the animal that opportunity to face off with me. That’s been a natural part of the human race. Only in the last 100 years have we become capable of living without it,” Manuel said.
Most of the meat from grocery stores is from animals raised for the sole purpose of food. Manuel thinks that is worse than hunting.
Manuel donated his trophy bear’s meat to a family in Idaho, and said it’s important to utilize everything possible from game animals.
Rex Reinhardt, Lake St. Louis, Mo., senior, agreed.
“Animals have a multitude of purposes. Food being one of them. But I don’t think it’s right to kill them merely for recreational purposes,” Reinhardt said.
Even though Manuel shot his bear in Idaho and has hunted hogs in Arkansas, Kansas is still his favorite place to hunt.
“We have really good deer hunting here, as well as duck hunting. Lots of people dog Kansas, but I love it. Starting at the age of four, I was able to pursue these hobbies.”
With springtime approaching, the time for fly fishing and turkey hunting is near. This is the time hunters and outdoorsmen love. Even those in Kansas.
Edited by Jesse Truesdale
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