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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2008
LADY LEOPARD NAMED ALL STATE
Banks County’s softball catcher, junior Hayley Baird was named Honorable
Mention for the AA All State by the GACA.
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OUTDOORS WITH SKIPPER
A Surprise
I had seen the property in pic
tures that Len Camden of
Homer had shown me.
A beautiful, 150 acres of family
land in the mountains of Virginia.
In fact it was only some thirty
miles or so from Lexington and
Washington and Lee University,
where I had attended college
many years ago. A pretty stone
home, a trout stream, and good
hunting made it a paradise. It is
on DePriest Mountain with an
altitude of some 4,000 feet. Len, his son-
in-law, Joe Minckey from Gainesville, and
some nephews, were hunting the two week
rifle still-hunt season, with the second
week open to bear. It was a clear evening,
as Len was sitting on the ground halfway
up the mountainside.
The fellows were connected with two-
way radios in case help was needed. Tem
perature was around 30 degrees at 3 p.m.,
as they scanned the hillside looking for a
nice deer. Len had his 25/06 with a 115
grain bullet ready.
He picked up movement down the hill
in some thick brush. Something black was
moving through the brush. He figured it
to be a dog. However, it was no dog as
it headed up toward him. It was a black
bear.
Now, if I was sitting on the ground I
would be a bit concerned, but Len said,
with a rifle in his hand, he wasn’t wor
ried.
The bear came on up some forty yards to
the side of where he was sitting. Len got
the bear in his sights and fired. The bear
rolled and tumbled down to where he had
come from. Len waited for ten minutes or
so, and not hearing any sound or seeing
any movement in that direction, he headed
that way. He found his bear up against a
tree. Radioing his two nephews, they got
on their four-wheelers and headed towards
Len.
It was a 185 lb. boar bear, with beautiful
fur without fighting marks or scars.
Len is going to have it mounted with a
head and paw mount. Len said at the same
check-in point at the game station,
the ranger told of a 13-year-old
girl’s experience with a bear.
Seems she was up in a ladder-
stand hunting. A black bear came
towards where she was and be
gan climbing up the actual ladder
rungs of her stand. With a 285 lb.
bear three feet from her, she fired,
hit it in the head, and killed it.
I would certainly like to meet
that brave young lady.
By the way, Len also took a sev
en-point buck.
In all, five bucks, one doe and one bear
were taken by the group.
I will tell you about Joe’s big buck next
week.
Let me know about your success in the
outdoors.
Skipper Smith is an outdoors columnist
for The Banks County News. His column
appears weekly. Let him know about your
outdoors or hunting adventures at
706-677-1520.
BEAR HUNT
Len Camden with the 185 pound boar
bear he harvested in Virginia.
skipper
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