If you know anyone in the Minnesota area, or even ND, SD and WI, please pass this on to everyone you can think of.



Bowhunting magazine’s and Associate Editor Ryan Hamre's family and friends are dealing with a crisis.

Below are all the details. If there is anything you can do or know anyone in the area with planes (I know, a lot to ask), but well deserved, or any resource that might be able to help Ryan's family that would be greatly appreciated.
Let us know if you know anyone in the Brainerd, Nisswa, or Winona (Minnesota) area that has some time to donate.

Thank you everyone and please keep positive thoughts for our fellow bowhunter.

We need everyones help here.

Ryan Hamre, Associate Editor of Petersen's Bowhunting Magazine has been missing since Saturday morning the 17th in Rice, MN. Ryan is 24 years old, brownish/blonde hair, 6 foot tall and about 185 pounds.

Ryan lives in Nisswa, MN and his parents live in Winona, MN which is where Ryan was expected to be going Saturday morning. Ryan never showed up in Winona and no one has heard from him since Friday night. I'm attaching a report that ran in the Winona Daily News. there's a chance Ryan might have changed his mind and headed North to an Ice Fishing festival in Walker, MN (leech lake sp?). Ryan drives a dark blue 4x4 Dakota Dodge with a white canopy. It's very uncharacteristic of Ryan, he loves working with the magazine and is family guy with a great relationship with his father, mother and two sisters.

Please, anyone who lives in MN or happened to be in the Brainerd, Rice, Nisswa area this past week, if you happen to have some time, please keep an eye out for Ryan's Blue Dodge pickup or if you have any info, time to help looking, planes to help fly the area please contact the numbers listed

here are some numbers to call:
Nisswa Police Department at (218) 963-4301 or the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department at (218) 829-4749.

also, we have a section on our webpage with pictures and updates on Ryan Hamre, please visit; www.bowhuntingmag.com

Nisswa man missing

Police seek Ryan Hamre, unseen since Saturday

By MATT ERICKSON
Staff Writer
Nisswa police are looking for a 24-year-old man believed to be missing since Saturday.

Police Chief Craig Taylor said Ryan Christoffer Hamre, of Nisswa, last talked to friends Friday, saying he planned to visit his parents in Winona over the weekend. Surveillance cameras recorded Hamre buying gasoline, oil and getting cash from an ATM at 5:53 a.m. Saturday at a Rice gas station.

What happened to Hamre after he left the Rice gas station isn't known, Taylor said. He never arrived at his parents' Winona home and hasn't contacted family members or friends since Friday.

"It's very uncharacteristic of Ryan to do something like this," said Ryan Hamre's mother, Pamela Hamre. "He never misses work. He loves his job. We've contacted every one of his friends. He has a lot of them, they have a kind of network, and no one has heard from him since Friday. It's very unusual."

Pamela Hamre said her son didn't mention that he was coming to visit them in Winona this past weekend, but had left a message at their house on Friday. She said it wasn't unusual for Ryan Hamre to visit without calling first.

Pamela Hamre also made a plea to the public to help find her son.

Nisswa police received a missing person report Tuesday after Ryan Hamre failed to show up for work and his cell phone was found in a ditch along Highway 10 near Royalton. Taylor said foul play isn't suspected but family members said it was uncharacteristic for him to leave without telling anyone.

"It's suspicious in that he's never done anything like this before," Taylor said. "Nobody's heard from him, not friends or family."

Hamre is an associate editor at Petersen's Bowhunting magazine, which is a division of InterMedia, the parent company of In-Fisherman magazine. Patty Harrison, an employee with In-Fisherman, said Hamre had worked with the bowhunting magazine for about two years. She said Hamre gave no indication to InterMedia that he wouldn't be in to work on Tuesday.

"He loves his job and it's unlike him to not call in and let either his parents or his employers know where he was," Harrison said Wednesday. "He's a very responsible young man."

InterMedia employees Wednesday planned to place posters featuring photos and a description of Ryan Hamre throughout the Brainerd area.

Hamre is described as a white man, 6 feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. He wears glasses and has a beard. He was driving a dark blue Dodge Dakota pickup and was last seen wearing a black jacket, a yellow polo shirt with stripes, blue jeans, black shoes and a gray baseball cap.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Nisswa Police Department at (218) 963-4301 or the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department at (218) 829-4749.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and please keep positive thoughts for our bowhunting brother.

Daniel Beraldo
Associate Editor
Petersen's Bowhunting Magazine
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
323-782-2709 work
323-633-1454 cell
323-782-2477 fax
dan.beraldo@primedia.com

Prayers are with this fine young man. Hope he is found safe and sound soon.
We should keep this info at the top of the forum till he is found!!!

Missing man’s truck found

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By Amber Dulek | Winona Daily News

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Police on Thursday found the vehicle of a former Winona man who has been missing since early Saturday at a northern Minnesota cabin.

Brad Voltz of the Lake County sheriff’s office said Ryan Hamre’s 2003 Dodge Dakota was found at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at a cabin owned by someone known to the family in rural Isabella, about 40 miles east of Ely.

Nisswa Police Chief Craig Taylor said Hamre’s family had been notified and authorities are still looking for the 24-year-old man. He said foul play was not suspected.

The cabin owner, who asked not to be identified, said a neighbor saw Hamre walking near the cabin Thursday.

Hamre’s parents did not return phone messages Thursday night.

The 2000 Winona Senior High graduate and former Saint Mary’s University student was traveling to Winona from Baxter, Minn., to visit his parents over the President’s Day weekend. His parents said he never appeared in Winona and failed to show up for work Tuesday.

A gas station surveillance camera filmed him Saturday in Rice, Minn., north of St. Cloud as he began the 41/2-hour trip, and his cell phone was discovered in a ditch along Hwy. 10 near St. Cloud.

This isn't looking good for the missing guy.

I spoke with the Nisswa Police Dept. about an hour ago, and the information found in Rusty's link to the Winnona Daily News is, currently, the most accurate appraisal of events as we know them.

Hopefully Ryan just needed some time to himself, and a place to get away.

Keep him and his family in your prayers,

friar

We will keep Ryan and his family in our prayers. Hope this turns out ok.

I have a bad feeling on this one.

They found him.alive.
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1022877.html

Great news. Thanks for all the updates and concern guys. -TONY

I am glad that everything turned out alright, but this whole story sounds a little fishy to me.

I'm guessing it will all shake out at some time. The part that bothers me most is why his cell phone was found alongside the road. -TONY

That's really great news! I'm so glad this horror story has a happy ending! Good stuff indeed!

Glad to see he is safe and sound.

As to the story....sounds like "The Runaway Guide"...he wasn't getting married soon, was he?

LOL Jim! That could explain it!

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sounds like "The Runaway Guide"...

Now THAT cracked me up. I spit Pepsi all over my keyboard. -TONY

Hey Tony,

I was bothered by the "cell phone beside the road thing" also......my take is that he just didn't throw it far enough to get it into the large, deep body of water where all cell phones belong.

Really nice to have a positive ending for the family and good on you for bringing this to everyone's attention with your initial post.

Joe

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my take is that he just didn't throw it far enough to get it into the large, deep body of water where all cell phones belong.

Amen.

I don't use one myself but have a cheapie 30-min. local area account for my wife just for emergencies. Cost me all of $9.95 a month plus the taxes. etc. -TONY

Thank God he got out when he did--lots of snow here right now--in fact, he walked out not a moment too soon!

Sounds like he at least kept his wits about him--after he got lost, that is!

Glad to hear it all turned out ok.

friar

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts there's a helluva lot more to this story than "getting lost." I could speculate and suspect that some of my wild ramblings would be close to the truth, but I'll wait for more information if any is forthcoming.

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The part that bothers me most is why his cell phone was found alongside the road.

I have had mine pop off and fall to the ground. Fortunately, I noticed when it happend or very soon there after.