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Madden bags four
big game animals
in one season
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
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Contributed photo
Kaden Madden, 17,
shot this buck on
the fourth day of
bowhunting season
last year.
aden Madden, 17, has bagged a big game animal every season since he
was 12, but last year was epic with a buck, a doe, a bull and a near-re-
cord black bear.
Born and raised in Grant County, Madden said he’s been hunting with
his parents, Jesse and Michal Madden, “pretty much since I was born.”
“They packed me up tree stands,” he said.
Madden got his first gun, a .22 for plinking cans and shooting squirrels,
when he was 5 or 6. He started mentor-hunting with his father when he turned
12.
“I got a buck and elk calf that season,” he said.
Madden was in northern Idaho in June last year hunting with family
friends Trevor and Morgan Bennett of Baker City when he bagged a large
cinnamon-colored black bear.
See Madden, Page C27