Ken shot this grizzly a few days ago!
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WOW!!! What a bear!!!
Well Done Ken!!!
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Holy smoke! Many congratulations to him!!
Well done........
Wow wow wow wow wow!
Can we hear the story behind that brute?
That's the top of my bucket list !! Can't wait to hear the story !!
That's awesome. Congratulations Ken!
Ken wrote me he was leaving for moose hunting tomorrow morning.Hope he'll find time to tell the story.It's been recordered on camera. A close encounter. POC arrows With tuffheads.
WOW! That is a huge bear! I can't wait to hear the story.
Man that bear is massive! Congratulations!
Big bear...just wish people would stop putting the hunters so far behind them for the optical illusion of making them seem larger than reality....
Well done Ken.
Congratulations Ken, I would love to hear the recounting of the hunt.
Great Bear..!.. Would really like to read the story.
One word. Awesome!
Awesome job Ken!! What a specimen of a animal!!
What's the bow and arrow setup ken??
Great BEAR, The story and more pics??
Nice bear hope to see one , from afar, when I get to idaho.
Congrats man, tell us all about it
Whooo hooo nock that one off your bucket list, excellent.
Way to go Ken.....every pic I've seen of you has a big bear in it!
Yep! Waiting on the story!
Woah!!! That's all I have.
Congratulations Ken!!
I know this has been a tough journey but worth the effort in the end.
Abe
Wow nice bear and picture
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Like I said before Ken was leaving this morning for a moose hunting trip.He won't come Back for a week probably.Be patient for the story!
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Wow! Great bear!
What a beast! Congratulations Ken!
My, my, my! What an animal! Congratulations Ken on your fantastic hunt! :clapper:
Bernie
Awesome!
congrats
That is a great bear! Let's hear the details!
Wowser!!!!!!
That is an awesome critter!
Congrats to Ken!
Bisch
Wow! :notworthy:
That's really huge! Congratulations and good luck on your moose hunt. Looking forward to the story when you get back (and moose pictures and stories).
-Jay
Awesome!!
Congrats Ken ! Great big 'ol noggin' on that one. Look forward to the story.
wow!
awesome. congrats
Very fine ... what a great animal to take with trad gear !!
Congrats
Speechless!!!! Congrats! :thumbsup: :notworthy: :campfire:
Bucket list , Well done sir , Congrats....
,,,Sam,,,
Hello everybody,
Sorry for the delay in filling in the details, I got back a few days ago but either our internet connection was out of order (which happens fairly often where we live) or our computer is getting "tired".
Thank you all so much for the congratulations and the nice words.
We were a group of five hunters and two cameramen on this trip (four of whom are experienced big game guides from the east), and had planned on hunting separately in two groups. We were accompanied by two Alaskan guides on the first half of the trip and an extra one on the second half.
Most of the guys primary species was Alaskan moose, mine was brown bear. All but one of us had both tags.
During the first half of our hunt things were looking pretty bleak... for the sake of keeping things in a positive mood, suffice to say that another in our group with a big heart, a satellite telephone, and the means, personally hired the bush plane company to move us.
At the new spot, hunting consisted of glassing the shoreline of a large bay of a river (that looked like a lake) from a rubber raft. We spotted the occasional black bear and then finally... a brown one.
The wind was marginal but we had to take the chance to get to the shore undetected, pull the raft up out of sight and then work our way closer to the bear. Another problem was finding a place where the guide and the cameraman could hide and where I could position myself close enough to the bear's travel route to be able to get a shot. It's not easy to hide three people, all with three different missions!
We didn't have much time to shop around for a spot so we setup at the first place that had a wider shoreline. It was pretty open though and the ground was littered with driftwood and dry sticks. That made it very difficult not only to get a solid foot position but also to change my stance direction smoothly and quietly to adjust to the bear's location when necessary.
The bear had been traveling faster than we expected since he appeared almost immediately upon taking our places.
Coincidently, the bear decided to spend some time and look for salmon at the exact strategic spot we chose (wider shoreline, shallower for fishing).
After picking up a weak fish in the water the bear walked into the bush behind us where I couldn't see it at all. Remember that the wind was marginal... and now where he went, even more marginal, LOL, if you know what I mean. I could only hope.
It spent about ten minutes in the bush the first time, repeating that another couple of times - I was too focused to count. It actually swam out one time and when it went back in the bush to eat, this time I could see brown fur moving around.
Each time the bear came out I had to be ready to shoot in the event I was offered a shot. When the bear was to my extreme right or left and I couldn't turn my torso any more, then I had to lift and reposition my feet quietly which was extremely difficult because of the ground clutter I mentioned previously. I studied body language and watched eyes to know when to move.
Finally, the bear decided to move on but chose a path directly towards me. I was almost standing in the wide open but my light grey wool camo top was strangely, but thankfully, pretty well the same color as the skinny sticks around me and the driftwood clutter.
Coming straight on I had no shot but at about seven or eight yards the bear turned, maybe thinking that I was just a big chunk of clutter it had to go around. I had been standing dead still at 1/3 draw all that time. I hadn't been able to get my rear foot in a good solid position so it was kind of bent up behind me, but I practice shooting in awkward stances so that wasn't a problem.
I came to full draw when I thought I could and then held it - I didn't want one of those skinny sticks to deflect my arrow and figured I had about a five or six foot shooting window when it crossed in front of me. It was moving pretty fast again and I had no space or time to spare.
I had remained undetected to this point and my goal had been to also launch an arrow undetected in a quartering away position.
The entire sight picture seemed to light up in my head and then a bit of fletching miraculously appeared exactly where I wanted.
With lightening reflexes the bear snapped at the cedar arrow and exploded off.
When I turned to look at the guide and the cameraman they were both smiling ear to ear.
We waited about twenty minutes or more and then found it piled up about 50 yards away. I might have been seeing things in slow motion (again) because the arrow had exited.
As a side note: Although I do have my left hand on the bear's back, the camera angle does not show that. Unfortunately, the bear still does look bigger in the picture than in real life (I don't like those pictures either but that is what they took). However, it is still one of the clearest and most complete pictures of those I have so far.
The bear squares about 8 1/2' but we couldn't measure front paw to front paw because I bag skinned it from the mid chest area up.
Wow that's pretty awesome. As I'll ask now as most will at some point.. What was the equipment you were using (specs) and awesome done with a cedar arrow!
Many congratulations.
WOW, Congratulations!
Denny
WOW!!! Nerves of steel..... Congratulations.
Congrats. Beautiful Bear, and wonderful story. I dont feel like I could hold my composure that close to the brute.
This is a picture of where I shot the bear. It was between the leaning tree on the right and the small curved/arched branch on the left.
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ti-guy will be posting some more pictures for me as I still haven't been able to figure that out... I have to admit that I'm one of those low tech people, LOL!
Anyhow, for those of you who are interested or who asked, I was using my 75 # @ 30" Caribow featherhorn longbow with a JM Traditions cedar arrow weighing a total of 750 grains (including a 225 grain Tuffhead).
I shoot left handed and used a Selway slide on bow quiver.
Gees... I almost sound like a commercial, LOL!
This is a picture of exactly where I had to place my feet.
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This picture would be the bear's view to me when I shot.
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Here's another picture of the bear - if you look carefully you can see my hand/shooting glove behind the bear's hump (my shooting glove is the same color as the fur).
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Congrats :thumbsup:
Ken and moose hunting guide "extraordinaire" Michel Therrien at Anchorage's Cabela's.
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Wow, that is awesome! Congrats!
Steve
Congrats sir!!! Wow, what a rush that must be. Make buck fever seem like taking sleeping pills!!
Very fine animal, congrats.
Congrats! I'm headed to Canada on my first bear hunt in June! This has got me even more excited! Very nice bear!
Congrats.. I personally hope I'm never that close to a bear..
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Thanks again for all the wonderful comments.
I forgot to mention that I ended up shooting him at 11 yards (we measured it the next day).
Great story. Thanks for sharing and congratulations.
Way to go Ken. That's one off the bucket list, what's your next adventure.
How did you make out on your moose hunt?
Abe
Absolutely AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! :clapper:
Thank you for sharing your wonderful story with us!!!!!
Very well done indeed, like how well you explained your thoughts. Congratulations.
Great job and a great read. Thanks for taking us along.
WOW! Way to go Ken!
I'm not a bit surprised. Thanks for sharing. 11yds what a rush that must have been!
wow!! what an animal! I bet he would have been able to hear my heart pounding from 11 yards away!! lol
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Sounds like a hunt of a lifetime, for you, photographer and the guide... I recall seeing an old Fred Bear video when the photographer dropped the camera and fled the scene.
Congratulations and thank you very much for taking the time to share your hunt with us.
I dont care how far you were behind the bear in that picture. Thats a big bear congratulations.
Ken,
You are the bear hunting MAN!
Congratulations on the ultimate ursus :thumbsup:
Great story and bear! Congratulations!
awesome - and nice looking veneers on that bow :)
Great story and congratulations