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I am planing on taking a tip to alaska to hunt brown bears and would like to know your opions on what poundage you would shoot I know that acurecy is the most important factor. I shoot a 64# longbow now and think that I could go up some. so what would you shoot, recomed?
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Shoot the heaviest bow you can handle accurately. That varies among individuals. Many can handle 70# and others only 40-50#. I believe the late Charlie Kroll used 50# and Fred Bear used 70#.
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Yours for better bowhunting, Kelly Posts: 1182 | From: Blue Grass, Iowa/Prentice, Wisconsin | Registered: Oct 2003
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I don't have first hand experience with Brownies, but I spent several hours with a guide in BC that has shot a few of them that claimed that you didn't need anymore bow for Grizzly than for Blackies. If your longbow is a modern R/D design and average to good performance, I would think that would be a perfect choice. You might bump up arrow weight to 750grians or so and have a bow that would stop a freight train. I don't care how heavy a bow you have, you are not going to stop a charging Brownie with an arrow. You simply need enough bow to puncture both lungs and let the air out of one. I think that bow would be more than adequate.
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have never hunted brownies, but I did shoot a black bear this year with a 51#@29" recurve and 630 grain arrows.
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TGMM Brotherhood of the Bow Posts: 3071 | From: Edmonton, Alberta | Registered: Jan 2004
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Just make sure you can out run your guide.LOL. Ya gotta be nuts to hunt something that can eat you, with a bow,IMHO.
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TGMM Family Of The Bow NRA Life/Patron member NAHC life member Retired CPO US Navy 1972-1993 Posts: 6586 | From: Guam | Registered: Jul 2003
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people shoot them every year with a rifle, when they were way close enough to do so with a bow. Be it that they shoot it while standing in a pool of there own urine. But with that said, if I had the money to do it, I would do it. I do not know if I would consider shooting one with out a guide that was not armed with an adequate firearm that could put a stop or slow the animal down just enough that you could put a foot in front of your guide, hey it is survival of the fittest, if you are missing a leg, you are not the fittest!(just kind of joking)
Posts: 649 | From: rockville,in. | Registered: Jun 2006
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thx guys I got charged by a black bear this last spring that we had cornerd beteewn to litel creeks gess he just did not want to get wet. lol it was kinda cool after he charged the frist time and we realized that he was bluffing ran at us with his eyes closed and head truned stop at about ten feet opened his eyes realized we dint move an inch ran back down to the creek then turnd and did it two more times we finley let him run out after that he was only about 180# but a nice blond,cinamon and cocolet.only one that I have erver seen, to bad he was not 100 # haevyer but maybe we'll see him agine in afew years.
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Beware, in a few more years he probably will not be bluffing Charlie - SA
Posts: 128 | From: Bulverde, Texas | Registered: May 2003
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I haven't shot one but have carried 66# selfbow and #66 laminated longbows on my trips. I have zero concern about that (or 64#) being enough bow. A friend killed one with mid fifties. A heavier arrow would be where you should be more concerned with. Just go for at least 650 grains plus. Remember, most brownies are way smaller than many elk and most moose and they are routinely killed with under 64#.
Posts: 2319 | From: Moose Pass, Alaska | Registered: Mar 2003
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Dr. Saxton Pope Posts: 2290 | From: Montreal, Quebec | Registered: Jan 2006
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Just curious: when did Brown/Grizzly bear bowhunting started? ( besides the rifle-toting Yeehah crowd, of course) Was it the Fred Bear video? and, isn't the animal sacred to Indians, and thus, shouldn't it be sacred to at least the traditional archery part of the hunting community, who is trying so hard to identify itself with Indian Heritage, and not be hunted at all? Or, if one must have a brown bear, shouldn't it be on a one on one knife fight/kill(maybe), like Indians used to do? your thoughts.....
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