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He knew the season, this time

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Here's a shot of Len Blankenship of Troutville with the huge black bear he killed on Oct. 14 near Catawba. As I noted in my Tuesday column, the bear weighed 425 pounds, field dressed.

The bear also offered Blankenship a chance for redemption. Two years ago he had a bear walked by him while Blankenship was bowhunting deer. He didn't shoot the bear because he thought the season didn't open for another two days. Later he found out that the opener had been moved up from the traditional Monday to the Saturday on which Blankensip passed up his shot.

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Mark Taylor holding a fish.

While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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