IN THE BEGINNING
My trip up to Oxbow Lodge in Northern Maine started out pretty much the way it always has these past four years, eager anticipation for a bear hunt that no one could predict the outcome of, and if any body could predict, would you really want to know before it all had a chance to unfold.  To me the pre-hunt preparations, the reading of hunting articles and magazines and the thoughts of opening day in the woods in pursuit of game with bow and arrow is just as much a part of my rituals as the hunt itself.