Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
British Columbia Sport & Outdoor Lounge => Hunters' Cabin => Topic started by: jetboatjim on May 27, 2012, 07:52:58 AM
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well only my second year of hunting......
on friday I had the afternoon off and gave my buddy a call , he was good to go. so off we went to a region spot we have spent some time in this year, we were trying to get him his first animal with the bow.
we spent a few hours hiking a few spur roads and not seeing much , we decided one more road that i have seen a few bears on , he decided to stop and have a "smoke" and just sit and wait for some action..............I walked another km up the road..
after scanning the clear cut for 20 mins i spotted movement about 100 yards down the road, seems I was looking too far away .
the bear was just coming up the slash onto the deactivated road, i waited for the right times to close the distance and withe wind in my favour it was quite easy .
he popped into a "ditch" to eat some clovers and i moved into range at 15 yards.....a little closer than I like but the closer the better.
he came out of the ditch and turned broad side, alredy taking range markers i was ready to let the arrow fly.
I hit him just behind the right arm , turned out I took out all the arteries connected to the heart............ he only ran 25 feet before falling down...........
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full pass through with the arrow and it went about another 20 yards and stuck into a log.......400 gn arrows really pack a punch at 70 lbs.
not a monster but really cool hunt and every animal I have taken has been hard earned.
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r163/jetboatjimmy/hunting2012012.jpg)
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Congrats Jim on another archery bear! As a rifle hunter I appreciate the effort required to get within 15 yards of your target. What do you do with your bear? Pepperoni? Roasts? burger?
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Nice bear Jim, congrats!
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nice looking bear :D
congrats ;D
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Love the spot and stalk nice work!
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nice bear jim!
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Holly cow you actually hunt bears with a Bow!!! :o
You've got some balls man.
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Well done Jim.
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Well colour me disappointed, here I thought I was gonna get to read about or see a video of a bear that can shoot bows! That would've been wicked.
Seriously though Jim, pretty cool. If you're going to hunt bears, that's about as level a playing field as you're going to get without hand to paw combat. Way better than treeing them using hounds.
Nice job.
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NICE!