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 ...

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 ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- For the first time in its seven-year history, Fred Bear Day in Crawford County hosted two 21 whistling arrow salutes on Sunday. Fred Bear Day Vice President Tom ...

An original Fred Bear bow — at least 60 years old, George BeDen estimates — was collecting dust in the Nixa resident's garage until it recently caught the eye of his great grandson. BeDen hunted all ...

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 must be tossing and turning in his grave. Bear, who died in 1988, was modern bow hunting's architect-in-chief. He began carving his own longbows and arrows in the late 1920s, and in 1933 he ...

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 ...