Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: DEllis on June 01, 2011, 01:47:27 am
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Hi all,
I've been away from here for a while.......lurking a bit, but been too busy to post for a while.
Anyway, I thought you all might like to see a pic of the black bear I arrowed on the weekend. Stalked him to within 25 yards and hit him through the lungs(a bit far back but still double lungs) with an ash arrow tipped with a Magnus II. The arrow was hanging out the offside by the fletching as he ran away. Made it about 60 yards. The hide squared 6 foot 6" and there is a bunch of nice meat for sausage too. ;D
The bow was a 64# osage that I posted on here a while back, I dubbed it " Ashbuster" due to it's uncanny ability to break my arrows.
Darcy
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/45stomp/P5290156.jpg)
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That is one pretty bear!! What a cool hunting story too, and that you harvested it with a bow you made. Doesn't get any better than that!
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Nice bear/bow and shot.Congrats on that one. :)
Pappy
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That's excellent. Congratulations!
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Great trophy! Takes some momentum to pass an arrow that far thru a bear, especially in the spring with all the hair! Am taking my family to Muncho Lake, BC in two weeks for a fly in fishing trip. Sure do like your place to hunt and fish! A/Ho Joe
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Well done! Congrats!!! 8)
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great job bro.. nice bear.. taken with a beautiful bow
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Outstanding all the way!! Congrats!!
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Nice shootin Darcy! That's a pretty sweet bow too! Hopefully next fall I can do the same and harvest some meat with the bow you sent me!
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NICE
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Beautifull bear and great shot! Congratulations.
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Now that is too cool! Congrats Darcy, 6' 6" is a nice BB by anyone's standards and with a Osage selfbow even more so...
Thanks for sharing~
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Congratulations. Beautiful bear ' Frank
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Thanks for the kind words guys. This is the biggest blackie I have killed with a bow yet, but I am blessed with some smokin' good bear hunting up here. I saw 9 bears the day I got this guy and stalked 4 of them. One was a beautiful light brown color......almost like butterscotch and probably 6 foot plus...........he got away, but I know where to look for him next year. ;D I also was within 15 yards of a little one but he needed time to grow up........I snuck away without him ever knowing I was there........fun stuff.
Darcy :)
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Just because I'm happy for you don't mean I ain't jealous ;).
Lane
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Just because I'm happy for you don't mean I ain't jealous ;).
Lane
I probably shouldn't mention the mountain goat hunt I have planned for this fall either then eh? Or the moose hunt? O:)
Darcy :)
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No you definitely should not Darcy...2 on my list of "must do" before I leave this world. Very cool stuff!
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No you definitely should not Darcy...2 on my list of "must do" before I leave this world. Very cool stuff!
Mountain Goats and the country they inhabit are awesome........don't wait too long to hunt them, those hills get steeper every year.
I can hunt moose literally in my back yard. They eat all my red osier and saskatoon bushes, break the birch trees to get at the tops, and convert it all into several hundred pounds of lean prime meat. Man, I can't wait for september ;D
Darcy
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gorgeous bear, good memories for sure. congratulations Darcy!
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Darcy, nice bear! Bow looks good too. I'm envious. Great job.
George
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Wow! :o :o That is a nice bear, especially for a Spring bear, just coming out of it's den, and scrounging up something to eat. That is awesome that you were able to take it with a homemade bow, and arrow! 8) 8) But from everything I have read about BC, and from what the few people that I have talked to that have been up there, you not only have a lot of bears, but BIG bears! Especially the Griz ! :o You not only have big bears, but HUGE deer also! We have mountain goats, and Big Horn Sheep, and moose in the area I will be living in, in Montana also. The moose are not as big, especially in the antler range, but nonetheless big enough!
I am not too far from Idaho, and they have a lot of Moose. We are limited in the Moose hunt, though, I think it is like one moose, and that is it for life. So maybe I can get one in Montana, and one in Idaho. Great fishing up in BC also. It is indeed a sportsman's paradise.
Congratulations on a fine bear, and a fine hunt. ;) And congratulations on living in such an area! ;) 8)
Wayne
P.S. I will send you a pm. Don't want to get in trouble with the moderators. ;D ;D Rules is rules, and I do try to abide by them. They do serve a purpose. ;)
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Thanks guys :)
Darcy
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Braggart..... JK, buddy. I would trade my snakes anyday for the game in your woods, but I hear them woods get cold... We didn't have school for a whole week back in February... Because it snowed and the temp didn't get above 32' From Monday at 2am until Sat around noon...
It was great 8) We had a good week... But it was COLD
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Cipriano, that was just T shirt, and beer weather for him in BC ! ;D ;D It gets COLD there, and did I mention it gets REALLY COLD there? :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D He said he only carries a knife, with him when he bow hunts! I wouldn't want to face a Griz who wants my Deer, or other kill, with just a bow, and a knife! :o I am afraid i would have to go home, and bitch about the @$##@!!!! Griz that took my Bear, or Moose, etc. >:( And it happens! I read Outdoor world or Sports Afield, about a guy who was hunting up there, and had killed two nice trophy whitetails, and was starting to dress them out, when a huge Griz came out of the bushes, and started come towards him, growling, and acting very menacing. He said he only had a .270, and was not too sure if it would handle such a large bear, so he backed off, and the Bear walked up to the deer, and proceeded to eat them, while eyeing him the whole time. He said the Bear ate BOTH the deer, and that it ate ALL of the deer, including hooves, and ANTLERS, and all!! :o :o He said he could only stand there and watch. >:( He went back a day or so later, to see if he could find his knife, but he never found it. Maybe the damed Bear ate it! I hope it slice him open!
Wayne
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Congrats on the fine kill!
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SWEETTTTTTTT
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Thanks guys.
The trouble right now isn't the cold or the bears(which are not really a problem ;)) but the mosquitoes and black flies :o they be hungry ;D
Darcy
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Mmmmm, black fly soup, with mosquito crackers...... :P ;D
Wayne