Close up brown bear archery success video
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4merguide
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Wow, got lucky there as it appeared that the bear looked like he saw where the sting came from. This video isn't it, but probably one of the most calm and quiet kills I ever saw on a big brownie was from an arrow.
Before I went to Kodiak for my brown bear hunt I watched pretty much every video on YT I could find that involved hunting brown bears. After hundreds of videos I'm convinced that an arrow is far superior to a bullet when killing brown bears. There's no concussion and the incredible stamina is not triggered (when properly placed). They bleed out so fast and don’t run far.
The only problem is how close you have to get! Due to that minor detail, I choose not to use the arrow, haha.
Cool video, thanks for sharing.
The only problem is how close you have to get! Due to that minor detail, I choose not to use the arrow, haha.
Cool video, thanks for sharing.
4merguide
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Yep, that's a BIG "minor" detail!!!
I read an article about an archer that tried to kill a brownie once on a wide-open hillside. The guide believed the bear would feed down the hill towards them, so he placed the archer in a little depression in the hillside below the bear and he got down below him a few yards away in another little depression. The bear did indeed feed down the hill towards them, but it was directly at them, meaning the archer could never get a broadside shot. The bear kept coming, and coming, and coming, head-first, and the archer never had a shot. Finally, with the bear was only feet away he spotted the archer laying there as if to say, "hmmmm, what's that in front of me?" and slowly continued his beeline right at him. That's when the guide had to stand up and shoot the bear with his rifle.
kenaibow fan
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Now way would I ever knowingly want to get that close to any bear. Arrows do cause more bleeding then bullets no doubt but I don’t have the stones to even want to try any of this!
WinterHawk
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Years ago, so long ago I don't remember exactly when but late 1960s, early '70s comes to mind, a group of 3, maybe 4 guys went up on an arctic river to make a fishing movie. They were bushwhacking to a different spot when a grizzly charged them. No firearms in the group but one of them had a bow and waited until the bear was obviously not going to stop, 15 yards or so. Then he shot it. The cameraman had started filming "so there would be evidence of what happened when the search party went looking for them." The arrow, maybe more than one, did its job and no person was hurt. It was all over the News Miner when they came back, and the clip of the bear charge was on TV news. The river was not identified but I think it may have been the Kobuk.
4merguide
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Will totally depend on where it’s hit, ie, heart, double lung, single lung or nicked single lung, gut… There is a saying that a bear can still kill you with its heart blown apart. Generally speaking though, if it’s a real lethal shot just a few minutes. The big bear I referred to above as the calmest, quietest kills I have ever seen took probably less than three minutes. I don’t know where he was hit but believe it was a double lung. He was hit on the shore of a small creek, swam back across the creek, pulled himself up and over the bank, walked about 20 yards, stopped, wobbled once, wobbled again, then fell over dead.
