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08-22-2001, 07:10 PM
By Jim Matthews
### ### WRIGHTWOOD -- Tim Glenner first saw the huge bear four years ago, and he has been after it ever since. Two season back, the Wrightwood archer hit the brute in the shoulder with an arrow shot from a tree stand, but no vital organs were hit and the bear came back to the same area the next season, seemingly no worse for wear.
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### ### This time Glenner’s hunting partner Louie Lesnikowski of San Bernardino hammered the same bear with a broadhead, right on the point of the shoulder, but the arrow didn’t penetrate, and the bear had a limp for a while.
### ### This past Saturday morning, Glenner had another chance at the blond and brown bear. This time his arrow slipped behind the shoulder and went completely through the animal. As soon as the bear heard the bow and felt the sting of the arrow, he turned and came straight for Glenner, who was just 20 yards away.
### ### “He looked at me and came straight at me, swinging his paws. The only thing between him and me was a small oak tree,” said Glenner. But the arrow had gone through the bear’s lungs, and it stopped trying to get Glenner and walked away and died.
### ### “They are tough animals,” said Glenner. “Dick Phillips [the local game warden in the Wrightwood area] said that he has seen one bear that had two broadheads in his shoulder, double-ought buck in his rump, and a .22 slug in his head, and none of them killed the bear. After seeing this, I believe it.”
### ### When dressing the bear, Glenner said he found the two wounds from the arrows they had shot previous years. His tree stand arrow left a gash across the shoulder, while his partner’s arrow left a deeper wound on the shoulder, but both were healed.
### ### Once the bear was down, the work began. The bear was skinned and all the meat boned out. It took five backpacks of meat and one backpack load of just head and hide to get the animal off the mountain. Glenner had help from two other hunters, but it was still 2 p.m. before they had the bear at the vehicle -- 7 1/2-hours after the bear was arrowed.
### ### Glenner and Lesnikowski estimated the bear weighed around 500 pounds, and it had a huge head. Besides being a blondish-brown color, the bear also had a white blaze on his chest. Glenner said he’s going to have the skull scored for the Pope & Young record book after the required waiting period.
### ### The bear continues the annual tradition of having at least one huge bear come out of the San Gabriel-San Bernardino mountain complex. Huge, old black bears from 500 to 700 pounds are taken each year, and some years several bears that size are taken by hunters.
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Jimmy Rizzo of Orange County took another SoCal bear. Jimmy usually hunts in the San Bernardino Forest and the bear was said to be just under 200 lbs. Pictures to come of Jimmy's bear, if we can catch up to him.
Congrats to Jimmy and Tim on some real nice bears. Anybody else with any archery bear reports?
### ### WRIGHTWOOD -- Tim Glenner first saw the huge bear four years ago, and he has been after it ever since. Two season back, the Wrightwood archer hit the brute in the shoulder with an arrow shot from a tree stand, but no vital organs were hit and the bear came back to the same area the next season, seemingly no worse for wear.
http://www.jesseshuntingpage.com/images/bear-kim-glenner-8-18-2001-socal-sm.jpg
### ### This time Glenner’s hunting partner Louie Lesnikowski of San Bernardino hammered the same bear with a broadhead, right on the point of the shoulder, but the arrow didn’t penetrate, and the bear had a limp for a while.
### ### This past Saturday morning, Glenner had another chance at the blond and brown bear. This time his arrow slipped behind the shoulder and went completely through the animal. As soon as the bear heard the bow and felt the sting of the arrow, he turned and came straight for Glenner, who was just 20 yards away.
### ### “He looked at me and came straight at me, swinging his paws. The only thing between him and me was a small oak tree,” said Glenner. But the arrow had gone through the bear’s lungs, and it stopped trying to get Glenner and walked away and died.
### ### “They are tough animals,” said Glenner. “Dick Phillips [the local game warden in the Wrightwood area] said that he has seen one bear that had two broadheads in his shoulder, double-ought buck in his rump, and a .22 slug in his head, and none of them killed the bear. After seeing this, I believe it.”
### ### When dressing the bear, Glenner said he found the two wounds from the arrows they had shot previous years. His tree stand arrow left a gash across the shoulder, while his partner’s arrow left a deeper wound on the shoulder, but both were healed.
### ### Once the bear was down, the work began. The bear was skinned and all the meat boned out. It took five backpacks of meat and one backpack load of just head and hide to get the animal off the mountain. Glenner had help from two other hunters, but it was still 2 p.m. before they had the bear at the vehicle -- 7 1/2-hours after the bear was arrowed.
### ### Glenner and Lesnikowski estimated the bear weighed around 500 pounds, and it had a huge head. Besides being a blondish-brown color, the bear also had a white blaze on his chest. Glenner said he’s going to have the skull scored for the Pope & Young record book after the required waiting period.
### ### The bear continues the annual tradition of having at least one huge bear come out of the San Gabriel-San Bernardino mountain complex. Huge, old black bears from 500 to 700 pounds are taken each year, and some years several bears that size are taken by hunters.
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Jimmy Rizzo of Orange County took another SoCal bear. Jimmy usually hunts in the San Bernardino Forest and the bear was said to be just under 200 lbs. Pictures to come of Jimmy's bear, if we can catch up to him.
Congrats to Jimmy and Tim on some real nice bears. Anybody else with any archery bear reports?