Trad Gang

Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 09:00:00 PM

Title: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 09:00:00 PM
Here are a few pictures of the Michigan Ground Grizzly. I shot this one today in self defense!  :scared:  

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/2-BIG/DSC00127.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/2-BIG/DSC00134.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/2-BIG/DSC00132.jpg)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: robslifts on April 17, 2007, 09:07:00 PM
lookin good jim
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Tim Fishell on April 17, 2007, 09:08:00 PM
All Right!!  1 down millions to go!!    :clapper:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: bbassi on April 17, 2007, 09:10:00 PM
nice whistle pig! LOL

What in the world do you have tied on the limbs of your bow?
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: BigRonHuntAlot on April 17, 2007, 09:13:00 PM
:bigsmyl:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: the Ferret on April 17, 2007, 09:13:00 PM
One of the toughest animals of the face of the earth...Did you have a PH behind with a back up gun? Did he charge ya, growling and teeth popping?
Oh man............

Ya done good   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 09:13:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by bbassi:
nice whistle pig! LOL

What in the world do you have tied on the limbs of your bow?
Those are a 3-d leafy cover that I use for turkey hunting to keep the glare off the bow. The yellow strings I just used to tie it on because the old elastic strings have broken.  ;)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 09:18:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by the Ferret:
One of the toughest animals of the face of the earth...Did you have a PH behind with a back up gun? Did he charge ya, growling and teeth popping?
Oh man............

Ya done good    :smileystooges:  
I stalked him for about 200 yards when he decided to come my way in a hurry. I was crouched down and when he got about15 feet away I drew, stood up and shot. Right over top of him!  :knothead:   He didn't know what happened and he stood up and I drilled him perfect in the chest.  ;)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: hormoan on April 17, 2007, 09:33:00 PM
Nice going Jim Looks like you has some fun on your day off!  :thumbsup:  After you met with me!


                        Brent
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Roger Norris on April 17, 2007, 09:46:00 PM
Good job Jim! They are tough. I had one once try and climb in a ground blind with me...I shot him with a Carbonwood (Ground Grizzly is right, I swear he had a hump) and he reached around and bit the danged arrow in half.

Good shooting!
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 09:50:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by hormoan:
Nice going Jim Looks like you has some fun on your day off!   :thumbsup:   After you met with me!


                        Brent
It was a blast Brent! And it was nice to get to meet you!
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 09:54:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Roger Norris:
Good job Jim! They are tough. I had one once try and climb in a ground blind with me...I shot him with a Carbonwood (Ground Grizzly is right, I swear he had a hump) and he reached around and bit the danged arrow in half.

Good shooting!
Roger this bugger was tough! He actually pulled the arrow out of his chest after he chewed the crap out of it!
I couldn't believe how hard by heart was pounding during the whole thing, you would have swore I was hunting the real grizzlies!  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Bowspirit on April 17, 2007, 10:18:00 PM
So, what kinda broadhead did you use for him...
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Shawn Leonard on April 17, 2007, 10:30:00 PM
Nice, it is shame but we do not have many left where I live in NY. I used to shoot 30-40 a year as a kid, but all the farms are gone and all the fields are turning fallow or have houses in them. Shawn
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 17, 2007, 11:13:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Bowspirit:
So, what kinda broadhead did you use for him...
I used a Wensel Woodsman. I have several arrows for woodchucks with Snuffers on them but the arrow I pulled out of the quiver had the Woodsman on it.
I have used 2 blade broadheads on them before but I like the knockdown power of the 3 blade so they don't make it back to their den.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Izzy on April 17, 2007, 11:17:00 PM
Nice.Good shootin.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Tim Kosteczko on April 17, 2007, 11:21:00 PM
very nice, love small game.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Dsturgisjr on April 17, 2007, 11:27:00 PM
Good job Jimbo. Woodchucks are cool.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: strick9 on April 17, 2007, 11:46:00 PM
I have eaten those grizz before not to bad just marinade well...How do you like your grizz pilgrim?
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Hawken1911 on April 18, 2007, 06:40:00 AM
Nice  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Jake on April 18, 2007, 07:11:00 AM
Nice Jim.  Good shootin.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Wulomac on April 18, 2007, 07:32:00 AM
Some guys are blessed with the ability to handle danger!  Way to inspire the rest of us!
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Fletch2 on April 18, 2007, 07:37:00 AM
Good job. Great idea for limb covers.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Cody Roiter on April 18, 2007, 08:19:00 AM
Jim, nice thanks your helping out us farmers.
Cody
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Ron LaClair on April 18, 2007, 08:33:00 AM
Good job Jim, tis the season

(http://www.shrewbows.com/2007_images/splsh-2007.jpg)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: AnointedArcher on April 18, 2007, 08:34:00 AM
You Da man Jimbo   :notworthy:    :notworthy:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 18, 2007, 10:13:00 AM
Thanks guys. It felt so good to return to predator mode and escape the hectic work life for a little while.
While I was stalking this guy I imagined that I was slipping along an Alaskan stream full of Salmon when I saw this huge boar Grizz. Then I was snapped back to reality when I pictured my bank account balance...$0.00!!!  :eek:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: hunt it on April 18, 2007, 11:53:00 AM
Nice silver back - turf grizzly !! JC outa be jumping in here soon with a recipe for ya. Lots of fun to shoot, their hard on arras when they disapear down a hole with your $15.00 arra.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: JC on April 18, 2007, 12:23:00 PM
MMMMMMMMMM, that's some fine eatin right there! Peel em quick after the kill, get the musk glands off (kinda behind each leg), soak em in water in the fridge for a couple of days changing out the water, add your favorite crock-pot recipe and SHAZAM! good food.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: hunt it on April 18, 2007, 01:22:00 PM
What did I tell Ya!!! JC can smells them groundhogs on his putor! I took my son ground hoggin when he was three. He heard me calling them groundhogs and my buddy calling them woodchucks so Gray started calling the woodhogs. So thats what we called them for a few years.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 18, 2007, 02:33:00 PM
Thanks for the recepie, I look forward to trying it. Here is a picture of one that I shot out of a tree several years ago with a 68lb. Bighorn. I was a little over bowed! I had him mounted life size.   :archer:  
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/2-BIG/DSC00136.jpg)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Bowspirit on April 18, 2007, 02:37:00 PM
Oh man. Just got to examine a woodchuck skeleton in my zoology class today. I couldn't get over how sturdly constructed those little guys are. Comparing it to a raccoon, the chuck had smaller bones, but alot thicker and more robust. No wonder why these suckers are so tough...
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Doug R on April 18, 2007, 04:39:00 PM
Jim you should use that for a decoy  :saywhat:  
I have noticed quite a few out eating grass on ditch banks lately.   :)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 18, 2007, 06:38:00 PM
Doug, when I used to spend a lot of time on the Maple River, I used to see lots and lots of woodchucks. They seem to really like making their dens along riverbanks and I have thought that it would be fun to do a woodchuck float and hunt them that way. It would be easy with a gun but challenging with a bow.  :)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: hormoan on April 18, 2007, 06:58:00 PM
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck? About 3/8" of cedar    :jumper:    Nice mount Jim! They really are tough to stalk, they are on red alert non stop!

                 Brent
PS I've yet to over kill anything!

And it was a pleasure meeting you! Hopefully we can do it on a little shooting expedition soon!

Then again that rat down a piece of 4" pipe with the 10 ga might just have been!  :jumper:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: whitebuffalo on April 18, 2007, 07:46:00 PM
Awsome job 2,, Hey you look familiar,,were you at a bunny hunt in the grant area when we got that dumping of snow,,,I was the one with the beagle,,I thought you looked familiar,,. JB
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 18, 2007, 08:54:00 PM
Yup, that was me! That day was just a good work out walking in waist deep now!  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: whitebuffalo on April 18, 2007, 09:43:00 PM
I was amazed rosie even ran the one bunny half as far as she did,, hey were gunna have to hook up buddy and do some carpin.
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 19, 2007, 07:52:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by whitebuffalo:
I was amazed rosie even ran the one bunny half as far as she did,, hey were gunna have to hook up buddy and do some carpin.
Sounds good! I will be making frequent checks of my carp shooting spots and I will keep you posted.  :)
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Ron LaClair on April 19, 2007, 08:17:00 AM
Woodchucks are good eatin, especially the young ones just like a big squirrel   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 6 POINT on April 20, 2007, 10:21:00 AM
That is obviously a Roon and Bocket Grizz. Would like to know what it scores after manditory drying period.Frank
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: Grant Young on April 20, 2007, 01:41:00 PM
That's a good lookin pig. Pound for pound the toughest thing I ever shot and great for working on your spot and stalk skills. They wise up real fast. Congrats,
                                    Grant
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: trapdoor on April 21, 2007, 02:28:00 AM
Nice Chuck Jimbo,
              Is that the one you were telling me about, on our way home from Cliff's?-
Title: Re: The Michigan Ground Grizzly (Pic's)......!
Post by: 2-BIG on April 21, 2007, 08:35:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by trapdoor:
Nice Chuck Jimbo,
              Is that the one you were telling me about, on our way home from Cliff's?-
Backdoor, the one I was telling you about is still there. He is in a hay field about a half mile from my house. I just need to get ahold of the landowner to go after him. I already have my stalking route planned out and if I can shoot decent he's in deep doo-doo!  ;)