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Author Topic: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!  (Read 663 times)

Offline DannyBows

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2011, 06:45:00 PM »
Great job on a fine Bear!   :thumbsup:
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2011, 07:38:00 PM »
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2011, 07:49:00 PM »
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2011, 08:22:00 PM »
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #24 on: June 15, 2011, 09:55:00 PM »
Great story! Congrats!

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2011, 06:06:00 AM »
dem firefly's are wicked bows.

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2011, 07:50:00 AM »
Very nice !!!
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2011, 08:23:00 AM »
Great job!
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #28 on: June 16, 2011, 09:37:00 AM »
All these spring bear posts lately are getting antsy.
Gonna have to quit reading them or go bear hunting.
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2011, 11:58:00 AM »
Congrats Mike, great story and great bear!!!   :thumbsup:  

       Those Firefly's are the mortal enemy of bears! Last year my Firefly attacked a bear with almost no warning or provocation.

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2011, 06:38:00 PM »
Tim,
Thank you for posting the picture and story.  I can't tell you how much fun it was and how I look forward to going next spring.  This is the second year I've hunted with Weitas Creek Outfitters and Gary Haight.  What a fantastic, professional and friendly outfitter.  Last year it was just my brother in law and I over the Memorial Day weekend (3rd hunt), this year I brought three more friends and my brother in law.  I still daydream, at my desk job, about that afternoon.  I keep threatening my wife I'm going to move to North Central Idaho.

Mikel

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #31 on: June 16, 2011, 06:54:00 PM »
Nice bear sir , aint nothing like it ,,,,Sam,,,,
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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #32 on: June 16, 2011, 10:45:00 PM »
Mikel,

This is the guy who followed you last spring into Gary's camp - your brother in law got his bear on the last night if I remember right.  You are so right about the mountains of Idaho, they are entrancing to say the least.

Congrats.

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2011, 10:52:00 PM »
Nice bear! and thanks for the flashback. That photo brings back some good memories of hunting with Gary.

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Re: Black bear falls to a Firefly...bow that is. Great story too!
« Reply #34 on: June 16, 2011, 11:14:00 PM »
Another great bear thread, congrats. He sure doesn't look small.
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