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A different kind of hunt for the homer king
Bonds now blasting deer instead of baseballs

 matierandross@sfchronicle.com  View all articles by Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross
POSTED: Nov 24, 2008

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds has put down his bat and picked up a gun in his new role as spokesman for Christensen Arms, a munitions company that specializes in high-powered hunting rifles."It gets your blood pumping," a camouflage-clad Bonds says as he stares through the scope of a 300 Ultra Mac rifle in a seven-minute info-video for the company.

The video shows baseball's all-time home-run leader hunting down a whitetail deer in an alfalfa field three hours north of Edmonton, Alberta.

The video, which has a heart-thumping soundtrack, goes dark just before you hear a single rifle blast.

The words "To be continued" then flash onto the screen.

An accompanying Web photo, however, gives away the ending - showing a smiling Bonds crouching behind his trophy kill along with the quote, "One blast is all it took."

"I just want to tell everyone at Christensen Arms thanks for building such a tremendous rifle," the ex-Giant says in the Web text that accompanies the video. "Keep up the great work, and God bless."


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And, in fact, Bonds is quite the hunter.

When a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Bonds last year on perjury and obstruction of justice charges for allegedly lying about steroids use, Bonds wasn't around - he was off hunting in Colorado.

Feel free to check out the video for yourself, at www. christensenarms.com.




Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross are both sports columnists for the San Francisco (Ca.) Chronicles. They can be seen reached via e-mail at matierandross@sfchronicle.com.



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