Originally Posted by
NC Bowhunter
For the people that have shot black bear before.I shot a nice size bear with my bow 3 days ago at 20 yrds.I shot him behind the shoulder and bout 10 inchs up.My arrow had blood all the way down it.I had a good trail for about 70 yrds.We pushed him after about an hour wait and backed out.The next day I tracked blood bout 30 more yrds and found a big puddle of blood where he layed but the blood stopped there.I have looked for probably 15 hours in the last few days with no luck.What's peoples thoughts on what happen,and has anyone else had this happen.I can't imagine him not being dead.The blood was dark and he stop twice from running within the first 50 yrds.
From my limited experiance on bear hunting id say look for the nastiest thickest cover near by or any place he can crawl into without being in veiw.but thats just my limited experiances with trailing bears.