[Joe Boucher]

Mark,
I was at Priest Lake Idaho once and spoke to a guy there who’d go hunting Griz with a compound bow.
I said, ok, so you take what, a Desert Eagle .50 on your side?
Nope, not allowed. Illegal to have a gun with you in Bow Season.
Bad ass or crazy, you make the call!

[marktwain]

If I were going to do that, I would bait the bear and hunt it from a tree stand. With a bit of pre-planning, the grizzly would not be able to climb the stand.

[Fzob]

Bad ass or crazy, you make the call!

Both.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Fred Bear always carried a .44 mag under his coat when bow hunting.

Fred Bear shot a bear with one of his bows, the bear came at him. He grabbed for his .44 mag and his guide yelled “Don’t shoot him! He is a record!”

The bear died before he could get to Fred so Fred was given some award for taking a record bear with a bow.

In another article about a made for tv sports show, a bow hunter is after a large animal. It was mentioned there was a man with a rifle off screen just in case.

I never looked up to any professional bowhunter after that.