"Close Quarters" - Alaska Bowhunting Supply and the GrizzlyStik brand were founded by the late Ed Schlief in 1994. Ed was an Alaskan registered guide with a passion for hunting brown bears with the longbow.After a successful spring hunt in 2005, Ed commissioned this original work "Close Quarters" from outdoor artist Dan Burr. He asked Dan to forever capture hunting the beaches of SE Alaska with his son and current GrizzlyStik President Garrett Schlief. Garrett is the backup.Of all our customers success, we have no doubt Ed would be most proud of our brown bear records. Over the past decade, GrizzlyStik customers have recorded:
84 Archery Brown Bears7 P&Y Top 204 P&Y Top 10The World Record
Huge thanks to Grizzlystick Broadheads for making a great product. On this hunt I was using a Silver Flame XL 125 grain head with a total arrow weight of 620 grains, with a 75 pound recurve bow. The shot was five yards quartering to on a 320 pound black bear, had a complete pass though on both lungs,[...]
P&Y Top 10 Alaskan Brown Bear
The Pope & Young #9 Alaskan brown bear taken with a 650 grain (all in) GrizzlyStik Momentum arrow tipped with a 200 grain single bevel broadhead. The first shot was a complete pass through. As seen in the video, the second follow up shot, was taken at 40 yards and never[...]
SCI #8 Polar Bear"Here is a pic of my polar bear. Used the Maasai 200-grain head and Momentum arrows. Shot him facing me - complete penetration - he went 5 feet and died in 10 seconds." - Mark Buehrer