archery bears

[sebek556]

OK had this up before but think it went bye-bye with the sever change. This year I've decided that I wanna really kick my own butt, and take my first bear(been around for quite a few but never pulled the trigger myself) with a bow. Been hitting it every chance I get, which is kinda  a pain in the rear with the wife having finals week this week. I've seen two, one I had at 60 yards and tried to position myself better to take a shot, nope squirrel went crazy on me and the bear bolted. The other one I spotted at 300 yards in a clear cut, by the time I got there gone, no tracks to follow  . I've been sitting in a spot where 6 trails meet up at a logging road, last week had scat everywhere, this week it's really dried up. So lets hear your tips, tricks or stories of bears hitting the dirt from a bow 

[saylean]

Know your distance....
and use the right pin.....

Had a bear a few years back walk infront of me andmy bro (who was behind me)...I drew back, guessing it to be 35 yards...in my haste, I used my 40 pin (between 40 and 50 pin)...arrow when right over the should by about 2 inches....

In reality, he was 25 yards...
Later I told my bro I missed on purpose, as it was 95 degrees out and we were 10 miles back.

Try calling in thick brush ontop of a log jam...or maybe a tree stand.

[sebek556]

  Tried calling with fawn in distress a couple of times, I still see fawns in the yard almost every night so I know there are still fawns. I've only seen 1 rabbit so dunno if a rabbit distress would be a good one  found a area with a lot of dead falls yesterday that the bears have been shredding. Thinking about setting a stand right on the edge of it...

[getumclose]

a friend of mine was hunting bear in our elk area yesterday. saw a bear at 2 pm.  no shot.  long story, lol..  then two forest patrol saw him and they talked.  they said the bears were killing the elk in the area. he went home got his bugle, went to a different spot and called in a boar to 30 yrds.  He came a running  right to him.  that was about 6 pm last night.  Just saying be carefull out there early archery Elk season.  and be ready to  stick a bear.  makes it kinda fun dont it?  good luck and shoot straight.  Out....

[sebek556]

  sweet... yeah it's been freaking my wife out that I am bear hunting, with a bow, on the ground  every morning when I go out I get asked "you have your pistol right?" For me I think that's part of it, got such a adrenaline rush when I had a bear 60 yards to my right munching on logs, would of been awesome to of dropped him. I the long run though I think it will be all the sweeter when I do get one, the harder you work for something the better it taste. Had the privilege of going through ranger school with a older sergeant from my unit. Think we were about 24 days in, I was sucking. Caffine and nicotine withdraws, 1 hour of sleep for the past month and had lost about 15-20 lbs. Just got done doing a review of a mission and were marching to our next one. Guess he could just see it on my face. He looked at me and said "If it wasn't so hard you wouldn't want it so bad, right?" I laughed and said "yeah, but I would about beat one of these RI's to death for their Copenhagen right now" 

[sebek556]

well early this morning hiking up saw a bear on the other side of the creek, so I jump into action and start putting a stalk on the bear. I would say it was a decent bear, nothing huge, standard black at about 200 yards. It was working it way towards me munching on a few ground berries and grubs on its slow path. The wind was a side wind, blowing towards him but just out it's range. In my excitement, that the bear was slowly working toward me and I was working my way to it I started paying more attention to the bear than my stalk. It started to angle its approach where I would just of just missed range. So I change my course, right into a nice pile of dead branches. A Snap and a Crack; Bear gone  tomorrow is another day

[seth30]

Best of luck brother, and any animal taken with a bow is a trophy.  Send me some pics when you finally drop yogi

[sebek556]

  will do.. and its coming wife has one more final to go then off for a week so that should free up some extra time