JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to ALL at 13:02 on 23 Oct 2007:

 JW> Devon Allooloo, who is  11 years old, will likely make it on record
 JW> as the youngest person to kill a caribou with a bow, according to
 JW> the records chairman of the Pope and Young Club, one of North
 JW> America's leading bowhunting and conservation organizations.
 JW> Allooloo, who has been hunting ptarmigan and ground squirrel with a
 JW> bow since he was five, shot a caribou square in the heart by
 JW> Thonokied Lake, which is near Lac de Gras where the BHP Ekati
 JW> diamond mine is, while working with his parents at a mining
 JW> exploration camp for most of September.

 JW> Devon is already an experienced hunter, having harvested 19 caribou
 JW> with a rifle in his life.

 JW> He used a traditional recurve bow; most hunters use modern compound
 JW> bows that keep the arrow drawn while aiming. With a recurve bow
 JW> Allooloo had to be ready to shoot as soon as he drew. He said he
 JW> may have had some extra luck as the arrow was given to him by
 JW> Michele Leveque the first woman to kill a polar bear with a bow.

Devon sounds like quite the boy.  Would he be eligible for an entry in the
Guinness Book of Records?

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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