My first trip to Kodiak was in the spring of 1968. That was the year that the Kodiak Wildlife Refuge manager implemented a permit system for brown bear on Kodiak Island. I wrote about that trip in the post “My Quest For A Brown Bear.” That story details all of my brown bear hunts before I finally harvested my bear. He squared 9’2” and I decided then that my next bear would be a 10-footer and that I would use my bow to accomplish that feat.