Thanks Eldorado. How it happened is the best part. We were trying to fill a cow tag and my oldest yells bear, bear, bear! We hunt them in the spring but never concentrate on them in the fall due to elk being our primary quest. He goes after it, stalking to within 15 yards but has no shot due to facing away from him. The bear then makes a hard left and stops 20 yards from me broadside. After that I have no clue what happened next all I remember was when the arrow hit him all heck broke lose. We left him over night and found him 70 yards from where I hit him. My son is now hooked though and we'll have to find a way to miss some school during 2012 spring season as he is already planning.
Elkboy