Year of the Bow #7 — Finding Spring Bears, Bucks, Bugs and Bunnies …
Hunting & Fishing British Columbia
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Welcome to Hunting and Fishing BC, my podcast about fishing, hunting and other wild pursuits in British Columbia and western Canada.
I’m Robert Koopmans and along with Jeremy Jensen and Kevin Wood, we’re talking about first steps in bowhunting. All of us have decided that this year will be the “Year of the Bow.” We’ve made a commitment to hunt only with a bow and not firearms, and we have set out to gain the skills and knowledge required before this year’s deer hunting season.
This week, we met up at our indoor shooting lanes in Kamloops to reflect back on six weeks of bear hunting in B.C.’s Interior.
Just to summarize, for those who don’t want to listen to the chat but want to know how our hunt turned out, here are the stats. In the end, we saw 18 bears, and had three opportunities to nock an arrow to a string. In the end, however, we didn’t shoot a bear with an arrow, highlighting one more time how much hunting with a bow changes the game.
Had we been hunting with rifles instead of bows, we’d be telling a different story. We had five solid opportunities to shoot a bear with a rifle at distances less than 100 yards. Closing distances from 100 to 50 yards or less to get into bow range, however, proved to be an entirely different task…
Despite how it ended, we consider the season to be an inordinate success. We learned tons about bears, and saw amazing amounts of wildlife, including big bucks, does, fawns, grouse and more rabbits than we could count. We toughed out some long days cruising rugged backcountry on ebikes, and endured evenings with murderous clouds of mosquitoes. And we found some amazing new country that will certainly draw us back this fall.
Most importantly, though we had a great time … So please, listen in as we chat about how it all went down. If you hear a question that you have an answer for or have a comment, let us know. Send us an email at [email protected] . We’d love to hear from you …
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Thanks for listening to this week’s episode. If you want to share a thought, send me an email at [email protected]. I’m Robert Koopmans, thanks again, and we’ll catch you next time.