One of my best friends and longtime hunting partner  Theo shot a bear the other night. We had been watching it for the last two years on trail cameras. After discussing we elected to wait until the following morning to track. Weather was very cool at night and Theo was concerned about shot placement. Based on what he told me I thought heart shot. This is a "Do it yourself " after work and weekends hunt. I picked up barrels cheap and have a friend that gave us all the restaurant scraps we needed. Theo is 5k ( 3 miles ) from his house and my stand is 30k ( 18 miles away ).
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So cool!

F-Manny

Bear only went 70 yards with a perfect heart shot. 660 grain arrow complete pass through and stuck in the ground. Last twenty yards were solid. I was "Lead" tracker and found the bear 15 yards into the swamp. Good thing Theo was backing me up with his Widow recurve. I felt very safe,, LOL. Worst part was getting that bear ( dressed at 252 pounds ) estimated live weight 300 lbs out of the swamp. An hour later we had him out of the swamp and on dry land. Then we used my game cart called the ATV ( All Theo and Vandeputte,, LOL ) to get him to a fire road. Best part was loading him into the trunk of a Honda Civic.
We were both dead tired and smelled of swamp and bear and sweat.
Frank

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Wow, hes beautiful. What broad head put down all that blood?

Even a color blind and Blind man could follow that blood trail.

Great Bear, Great shot.

 

That looks VERY promising!

Good luck on the trail..

Rodd

That looks VERY promising!

Good luck on the trail..

Rodd

Nice bear congrats!!!  Heck of a blood trail....like Izzy said, what BH?

Congrats Theo, good guide and tracking Frank! Great team work!!  

Theo designed and built all the tooling for the Canadian Journeyman broadhead. Did some work for Eclipse as well. He uses a Eclipse 145 with a 100g steel adaptor, 250 Carbon express Heritage out of a 62" PMAX 51@28.

great story...

Stevie Wonder could follow that blood trail...lol

Congratulations!!!

 

Congratulations to both of you!  Great bear and personal connection to the broadhead.

Congrats on a nice one!  That sucker has some big paws!  

That trail is a great testiment to a well placed shot and a very sharp broadhead.  Mudd read my mind when I saw the pics...Stevie Wonder could have followed that trail!

Wonderful story. Awesome bear,congrats!

excellent story..excellent pics....beautiful bear!!!

Way to go Frank!

Awesome effort. Great animal. I'd love to have a blood trail like that every time.

Nice bear Congratulations

Nice bear is right.
Good tale on all the work and "hunt vehicles".
An earlier thread here talked about loading/using small cars for transport, you guys got'er done with a Civic. Tough to the end...