Just got home from a long day hunting. Shot a 150lb black bear @ 7:02 tonight. My Lost Creek NAT strikes again!!! Chad made this bow for me in May and I took my first Trad turkey the last day of May. Now 3 days into the bear season I have my first bear with her. Watched the bear come in from about 80 yards and put a shaft through him at about 15 yards. He only went about 40 yards. No pics to speak of because it was so late. I took some at Home Depot with the bear on my ATV. Will email them to Ken to post when I get a chance. My setup is my 54" NAT 51@ 26. Shooting Maxima 250s @ 29.5" with 100 grain insetrs and topped with 225 grain Phatheads. Arrow weight of 605 grains and fletched with right wing feathers from my turkey. Would like to say a special thanks to Ed Bielejec for his constant help and to Chad for an awesome bow. Time to go to bed. Need to be up in 5 hours.
:thumbsup: Congratulations..sounds like your year is just getting better and better.
Gene
Way to go, i hope my wife's new NAT does as well for her. I have complete confidence in the bow and her abilities with it. Now if we can get the deer to cooperate, she can add another NAT success story. So far you are having a great year.
Well-done!
AWESOME BRO!!!!!!!!!!! email me the pic's!!!!!!
How cool is this? Way!! I'm saying...
Just totally awesome!!
I do think you need to give yourself some of the credit. The bow may be the "cat's meow" but it takes a shooter too!! (IMHO)
Congratulations!
God bless,Mudd
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You and your brother are quite the bear killing combo. I'll have to get some pointers from ya'll.
Way to go Dan.
Looks like Iowa boys know how to make some great bows!
Congrats on the bear!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Thanks guys. Getting bears is easy. Between myself, my two brothers & my Dad we have taken 4 bears counting the two this year. That is in 90+ years of hunting between us. The only good thing I can say is we have never missed one. My brother got a small one in 05 with a compound then the nice one this year with the rifle. My two came in 07 my first trad kill with my Mikuta TD recurve and now this one with my NAT.
Finding food is definitely the key. Good luck to all.
Hope to see some of you at the shoot Saturday.
Great. Lots of good eating.
that is an AWESOME trophy bro however i going to have to give ya some lessons in quality photograpy!!!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/adkmountainken/tradgang/Natbear.jpg)
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nice bear.
congrats from another lefty great looking bow too!
Good to see another of Chads bows make some meat!
nice! I am hoping to get my first bear this year
Something bout a New York bear thats just sooooo much cooler than a bear from anywhere else.Congradulations, looks like a fine hide.
Great Job....Congrats...
congrats
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Something bout a New York bear thats just sooooo much cooler than a bear from anywhere else.Congradulations, looks like a fine hide.
Ditto!
:bigsmyl: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper: :pray: Looks to be a promising season. Congrats!
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QuoteOriginally posted by Izzy:
Something bout a New York bear thats just sooooo much cooler than a bear from anywhere else.Congradulations, looks like a fine hide.
Ditto! [/b]
x3. You're the man, Dan!!!
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Thanks a lot guys. Was so happy with my bear and I still am, but.... the bad thing about trail cameras is that they tell you when you made a really bad choice. I have been getting a few pictures of a bear we figure goes about 325-350lbs. Well I was sick and puking all Saturday night and drove home from camp that night. Got back to camp at noon Sunday and hunted out of the ground blind til dark seeing nothing. Well, slept in Monday still trying to recover but got up there at 2 and shot my bear that night. Well, pulled the SD card and at 9:51AM the big boy was 10 yards in front of the ground blind! :banghead: :banghead: The extra sleep was not worth it.My tag for this year is good starting Oct 1st so maybe I will still get him.
Thanks Ken for posting the pics. If you had backlit my woods for me I would have taken much better pictures :biglaugh:
This will be the year of the bear for me! Congratulations!
Crotch Horn, I'm glad to see you got a very nice bear with the Lost Creek N.A.T. It looks like you had a very special hunt. Glad to see you are enjoying your N.A.T., looks like a lot of good bear meat.. Chad
I love my bow Chad. If you remember I had you put "One Shot" on the bow in tribute to my late father. All I can say is he is guiding me along to my success. I believe in the Spirits helping anyone who asks. Thanks again for such a wonderful bow.
And thank you to everyone for your kind words.
Dan Congrats on the bear very nice.Hope to shoot one next June with Tom Phillips with the longbow limbs I got from you but first hogs and deer this coming sesson. :thumbsup: :clapper:
QuoteOriginally posted by Bowspirit:
QuoteOriginally posted by Guru:
QuoteOriginally posted by Izzy:
Something bout a New York bear thats just sooooo much cooler than a bear from anywhere else.Congradulations, looks like a fine hide.
Ditto! [/b]
x3. You're the man, Dan!!!
:notworthy: [/b]
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Can't spot and stalk, cant bait, No Dogs! Just good old fashion hunting and a little bit of luck. Bears here are all trophy's, Chad You made the right choice, I f the biggun comes after oct 1st you will have an exceptional year.
I only have 17.5 acres of land but next to lots of public land. Bought it to deer hunt but in the 6 seasons I have had it we have taken 4 bears and 3 deer. Better odds of getting a bear. In fact we see less and less deer each year. I think between the bears & the Fishers most of the fawns are being killed. Of course that isn't even talking about the high coyote population. Thanks guys but it is mostly luck that I have been blessed with. That and some good Beech Nut trees.
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