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 ...

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 ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The organizers of Fred Bear Day are asking the City of Grayling to consider changing the name of its city park. With the unveiling of the Fred Bear statue back ...

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 ...

Several years ago, I was in Northern Michigan heading to a meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club and passed through Grayling, Michigan, the home of Fred Bear and Bear Archery. If you are not ...

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 ...

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 ...