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<blockquote data-quote="Ckgworks" data-source="post: 2559813" data-attributes="member: 105102"><p>It's easy to armchair quarterback these stories without any details.......I wonder if those that do have ever hunted the thick brush where sight is measuredin feet at times? I personally know a man who is a very expirenced hunter who was attacked by a black bear while tracking it. He didn't die, and the bear did but it was hairy for a little while. It was lung shot and I believe he waited 20 minutes before beginning looking. Not all animals die at the same rate of speed and sometimes even decent hits can be odd. I had a close brush with a archery shot cougar that I waited 45 minutes before tracking due to thick brush and hazy shot location- shot at 12' in thick brush in what felt like self defense even though I had a tag. Rain prevented me from waiting longer as I was worried about blood trail washing out....(Its called the Wet Coast for a reason) Blood trail lead me to believe it was a good hit and fully expected it to be dead after that length of time. Thankfully it was too weak to attack me but it was alive and jumped when I was within a couple feet of it in thick brush......took several years for my nerves to recover but I still feel you have no choice but to attempt to recover game you have wounded. I do believe that dangerous game has a much stronger drive or will to live when wounded after reading Peter Capstick's African hunting stories. </p><p>When I read these stories, I take them as a caution to remind myself that predator vs predator can end up with the hunter the hunted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ckgworks, post: 2559813, member: 105102"] It's easy to armchair quarterback these stories without any details.......I wonder if those that do have ever hunted the thick brush where sight is measuredin feet at times? I personally know a man who is a very expirenced hunter who was attacked by a black bear while tracking it. He didn't die, and the bear did but it was hairy for a little while. It was lung shot and I believe he waited 20 minutes before beginning looking. Not all animals die at the same rate of speed and sometimes even decent hits can be odd. I had a close brush with a archery shot cougar that I waited 45 minutes before tracking due to thick brush and hazy shot location- shot at 12' in thick brush in what felt like self defense even though I had a tag. Rain prevented me from waiting longer as I was worried about blood trail washing out....(Its called the Wet Coast for a reason) Blood trail lead me to believe it was a good hit and fully expected it to be dead after that length of time. Thankfully it was too weak to attack me but it was alive and jumped when I was within a couple feet of it in thick brush......took several years for my nerves to recover but I still feel you have no choice but to attempt to recover game you have wounded. I do believe that dangerous game has a much stronger drive or will to live when wounded after reading Peter Capstick's African hunting stories. When I read these stories, I take them as a caution to remind myself that predator vs predator can end up with the hunter the hunted. [/QUOTE]
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