Quebec Bear Hunt.

[Greg Felty]

Great story thanks for sharing.

[Grizzly]

Thanks Graps. Those are the stories we will always remember. They touch our hearts and keep us all the more alive.

[Shadowhntr]

Graps, listen brother.... I had a similar experience once with a doe deer minus the moan. I felt much like you did. Normally we shoot, the animal runs off and a while later we find it expired already. In both our cases the animal needed back up shots. Watching up close as an animal expires from a broadhead tipped arrow is NOTHING like I'd ever imagined it was. Like you, that day and experience changed me forever. I went through the same emotions and regrets of my misplaced hit. I seen over and again the scene I witnessed after I did strike true with my second arrow at a few yards as she laid there. To tell the truth I didn't want to hunt for a little while afterwards. Later, I realized that even though I then knew from being up close, exactly what takes place with a good lung hit, it still is a very fast death compared to them dying of disease, laying for hours and hours along a roadside ditch from a car hit, or predators ripping them apart. I did everything in my power to make a clean shot just like you did....but sometimes we imperfect humans make errors. We both followed up as soon as we could in order to make it right. It's not ideal, but the best we could do at the time. I know I'll make mistakes again some point in time and I'll regret it again...because we feel. Anything in nature that hunts has those mishaps and it doesn't go as planned....us included. Though regrets are imminent in these situations We cannot allow it to cripple us to the point of thinking we should not continue. We are allowed some errors as we are reaching for perfection, and we can do the best we can to make it right if error does come knocking. Chin up. You're a big man to share that with us. It's amazing how often we as humans experience those things that "such as are common to man"...

[Arcuites]

Graps, Thank You for giving me an all access pass to your hunt, and to your internal raw emotions within the story. Thanks for your passion, honestly, and humility. It speaks to you as a traditional hunter, and your manhood, which are firmly intact my friend. God Bless !

[Graps]

Thanks for the encouraging comments.