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to have taken two Ten Foot Brown Bears scoring over 28 inches. When not hunting, Brendan is focused on making a direct Impact on the future of sheep hunting. e founder of KUIU’s Conservation Direct, he has coordinated the translocation of 175 bighorn and desert sheep in 5 different states since 2020. Brendan and his wife Beth live with their two children, Lucas and Grae, in their home state of Montana.

Alaska Deer Discussion

With Bob Ameen, Larry Jones, and Trevor Embry

Open discussion all about hunting the Sitka Blacktail deer in Alaska.

Bob Ameen: Married to Lisa Ameen, Resided in Alaska 40 Years

Bow Hunted 53 Years, Senior Member Pope & Young Club, Life Member Alaskan Bowhunters Association, Member of Pope & Young Club’s Fred Bear Society, Taken Over 20 North American Big Game Species, Entered over 160 Animals into Pope & Young Records, Including Over 65 Sitka Blacktail Deer

Trevor Embry: My name is Trevor Embry, current President of Alaskan Bowhunters Association, and measurer for Pope and Young Club. I was born and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky before moving North to follow my dreams to Alaska. I currently reside in Eagle River.

I’ve always claimed to be a Pharmacist by trade, but a Bowhunter by heart. I’ve chased nearly 20 species of North American Big Game with my bow and arrow over the past decade or two.

Hunting Whitetails with a Deer Biologist

By C.J. Winand, Wildlife Biologist

CJ is a certified wildlife biologist, and for the last 25 years has penned the “Hunting Whitetails” column for Bowhunter Magazine. He’s also one of the featured hunters for Bowhunter TV (Sportsman Channel and Outdoor Channel). CJ was presented the first ever Quality Deer Management Association’s (QDMA) “Signpost” award. is Communicator of the Year award was in recognition for the contributions of an outdoor journalist who has done their professional best to circulate accurate information on biologically sound deer management.

All the scientific deer information within CJ’s seminars are data packed. Come prepared to take notes on what some people call a whole college course in “Advanced Deer Hunting 101.”

Seventy-plus Years of Bowhunting Adventures, Misadventures, and Miracles

By Dennis Dunn

Dennis Dunn, a native of Seattle, WA, now lives in Sun Valley, Idaho, and in Naples, Florida, but his 70+ years of bowhunting adventures and misadventures have taken him pretty much allover North America. He was the first archer to complete the N. A. SUPER SLAM entirely with purely instinctive shooting — having never used any yardage sight-pins or release aids along the way. In 2004, when he finished up the Slam of the 29 species, his seventh hunt for Grizzly Bear netted him the P & Y World’s Record. at record stood for 10 years until his 28-year-old boar was dethroned in 2015 by Rod Debias’s enormous bruin. Bob Griego’s giant Grizzly has more recently pushed “Old Snaggletooth” to 3rd spot in the P & Y Records.

In the fall of 2008, Dunn’s award-winning book BAREBOW! was finally published, a er four years in the writing, and it proceeded to win six national literary awards over the course of the next several years. In 2006, Dunn hung up his sightless compound for good and went back to his roots in traditional archery. At 83, he is still actively bowhunting, and this September he hopes to