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jetboatjim

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archery bear #2
« on: May 27, 2012, 07:52:58 AM »

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.

« Last Edit: May 27, 2012, 01:12:57 PM by jetboatjim »
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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2012, 10:21:15 AM »

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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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2012, 11:05:18 AM »

Nice bear Jim, congrats!
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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2012, 04:20:51 PM »

nice looking bear :D
congrats  ;D
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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2012, 08:32:11 PM »

Love the spot and stalk nice work!
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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2012, 12:37:48 PM »

nice bear jim!
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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2012, 09:45:24 PM »

Holly cow you actually hunt bears with a Bow!!!  :o

You've got some balls man.
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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2012, 09:55:52 PM »

Well done Jim.

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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2012, 10:49:42 AM »

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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Re: archery bear #2
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2012, 08:33:59 AM »

NICE!
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