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Offline recurve shooter

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2009, 09:53:26 am »
balista.  ;D
lets just shoot it

Offline mullet

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2009, 09:51:56 pm »
  Indiancharlie killed damn near a record bear in Canada a few years ago with his long bow. I think he is shooting around 65#. He said it didn't go far after he shot it.
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Offline redwasp

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2009, 10:39:21 pm »
.44 mag. for backup  ;).
If one man can do it, another man can do it. Richard......Northeastern PA.

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2009, 05:20:49 pm »
    The last bear I killed with a bow was with a 58# at 28, and it did a fine job....brokenhand....Aho.

Offline WVFishFearMe

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2009, 08:31:16 am »
You see plenty of videos of the bears running away when shot. I saw a video that changed my mind about shooting a bear from the ground with a bow - it defoliated the area and stood my hair up. Someone else said .44 Mag backup. In WV you must have a concealed weapons permit and can not carry the pistol outside your clothing during a bow hunt.
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To the engineer, the glass is twice as large as required.

Offline zeNBowyer

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2009, 08:38:02 am »
California also  has the  most idiotic  law  of  denying  a  bowhunter  a  sidearm during  an archery  hunt, it  is  an  outrageous violation of  the  hunter  to  put  himself  in  harms  way  like  this
"There's  something  immoral  about  abandoning  your  own  judgement"
Cowards always run in  packs
Ishi did not become the arrow, I suspect. The arrow became Ishi.

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Re: Bear hunting
« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2009, 10:50:47 pm »
 All I can say if you want to follow your State laws, is to be patient and make that shot count. It seems to me if you are going to hunt a bear on the ground, or low stand with primitive equipment; you better be doing it for the adrenalin rush, and be good at what you are doing.

 I know that's the reason I'm going to do it.  :)
Lakeland, Florida
 If you have to pull the trigger, is it really archery?