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The Alaska Peninsula Brown Bear Hunt
By Louis A. Cusack
Tagged Out! For many generations old and new, these two simple
words have been used to announce the ending of a successful
hunt and as a young man growing up in South Louisiana hunting
whitetail deer and turkeys with my father, I remember the
admiration others hunters bestowed on the hunter in camp that
no matter what the season or circumstances, they always filled
their tags and usually well before others.
battle ground were two such men. They always filled their tags.
They were respected by others. Hunters reached out to them as
a source of information and they readily shared their knowledge
with them. Members of our hunting group spoke of them like
basketball fans would speak of Michael Jordon or football fans
would speak of Larry Csonka, hailed for their success and like
most good hunting stories, stretched a bit beyond reality.
Mr. Sonny Brehamann, a tall dark Cajun who lived down the
street from us and Paul Edwards, a lean Mississippi veteran of
Vietnam with a look that seemed to see everything around him,
who won the admiration of others both in the field and on the
I looked up to these men. I wanted to be considered a part of
this elite group and I enjoyed my time spent as a card–carrying,
tag-filling member of this fine group of hunters. Today’s story,
however, is about the love of the hunt and the point many of
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