What happened?

[cuerro viejo]

That's what I was thinking. Hope you're right! If so, maybe I'll catch up with him late season/next year... Thanks for weighing in.

No problem, good luck and I hope you turn him up again!!

 

[gonhunting247]

So based on this do you tend to aim higher and farther back than "middle of middle" on bears?

Sorry I never saw this until now. It's a really late reply, but since it's almost spring season again, here we go
I always go to the top of a bear and drop in about the middle of the middle, but stay a little higher because, as I stated in the first post the hair on the bottom of the chest and the back of the front leg create an illusion of the chest dropping much lower than it actually does. I differ from a few on here and find with a bears anatomy (refer back to my pics above), with the way the ribs protrude straight out from the spine before dropping down and with the way the chest gets very cone shaped heading towards the front leg and neck; it would be much easier to shoot low. Just my thoughts and experience though