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Successful bear harvest - update on post #13
Strelets:
Well done Mesophilic. There are no wild bears here in England, but I can imagine how exciting it was. Can you say what gear you used: bow length, draw-weight and so on, and arrow weight and broadhead type?
Strelets:
Mesophilic, I just re-read your post and saw your comments about the arrow head, so please forget that question.
Trapper Rob:
Way to go glad you got one.
Mesophilic:
Thanks, Deerhunter, gonna make sure she's well cooked.
Well, we butchered Mary tonight (I always give my kills a name, as I feel names are important in the afterlife)
Not as much meat as I thought there would be but it smells very clean, definitely wasn't a regular trash can tosser.
The interesting part was getting through the fat to check out the path of the broadhead. Couldn't repeat this shot with a hundred arrows.
The broadhead barely kissed the lower left portion of the left scapula, passed just behind the humorous and clipped an artery. There was a huge pocket of blood clot in the tissues there (is it called blood shot in archery?).
Passed between two ribs without hitting either, passed through both lungs, and exited out the right side in the same manner...missing the ribs, the humorous, and scapula by millimeters.
The edges of the broadhead show no signs of nicks or rolled edges. Wish I had alot more of this particular circular saw blade for future hunts.
Mesophilic:
One more updste: she tastes amazing!!!
I cooked up a patty of ground bear with just a little beef fat mixed in. Tasted great. No gamey flavor or smell. In fact, if I slipped you some of this bear and told you it was bison, you'd have no reason to believe otherwise. Kid you not. Best wild game I've had in years.
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