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Shooting bears with a camera
and shooting them with a rifle die
two pastimes not usually indulged
ha by one and the same person.
But it remained for Navy Chief
A1 Hooker, a fast man With a lens,
to turn nimrod and drop a bear
Mot earned for him the coveted
first place honors ft) the Alaska
twin bear division of the Boone
and Crtekett Club's biennial North
American gWAe trbphy competi
tion for tbe 1958 • 1959 season.
Hooker was notified of the
award recently by official* Of the
chfb’s Big dime Awards Commit
tee* and was Invited to-attend a
presentation dinner in New York
on March 15. His duties here pre
vented ham from making tktS tap.
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• TV) big Kediak was taken on
May 6, 1968. Shot almost at the
end of a 10-day hunting trip that
took him and a companion first to
Ugak Bay and later to Karluk,
the bear is now listed as the
seventh largest Alaska brown
bear taken in the competitions.
The skull, on which the award is
based, measured a total of 30 3/16
inches. The world’s record is
30 12/16 inches.
The bear’s hide, which Hooker
has had made into a rug, squared
Out to 10 feet, 2 inches or 117
inches from nose to tail and 128
inches across.
The bear Was taken without the
aid of a professional guide, and
wasn’t easy to come by, according
to Al. He and his companion,
Navy Chief Com missaryman
George Fuller, were first dropped
by a bush pilot at Ugak Bay, but
after four days which found them
wet, cold and without a bear, they
were then down to Karluk. For
P,''1
four days, they nw plenty *t
tracks but no bears.
Late on the fourth day, Hooker
spotted his quarry while enroute
back to camp. He dropped to the
soggy ground, took aim and fired.
“I hit him three times with three
220 grain, 30 calibre slugs,” he said,
“and that monster still ran more
than 50-yards before he dropped.”
Then the work began, readying
•the trophy bear for the trip back
home. It took him and his part
ner over three hours just to skin
it, and several more hours to lug
the 107-pound hide back to camp
over rough, steep, bush-choked
terrain. Adding to the general
discomfort, too, he added, was the
chiding temperature, almost con
stant drizzling rain, ankle - deep
mud and sometimes hip-deep snow.
The award he will receive con
sists of the fioone and Criekett
m|odal, a certificate citing his ac
complishment, and the placing of
his name and specifications of his
drop*? bear in dtas Boots* mr
Crockett record book for Sir jeer
1958.
A1 Hooker arrived here Jan*.
1956, and has 19 years in the Navy
this month. He leaves shortly fm
duty elsewhere. While hem, M
has gained a little local fame fee
his movies of wildlife, N6MI
range *rom considerable footage of
bear, to elk, beaver and king endk
as well as sea lions. Many $ain&
taking hours of work are teglfte
sented in these film, wfiidb drt Of
excellent quality.
Hooker has written the story «f
the hunt that netted him Urn big
Kodiak. Titled “Number 0>k
Kodiaks Come Hard,’’the article
will be published in the Apt#
edition of Outdoor Life mauavjne
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