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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #255 on: May 26, 2015, 10:12:00 PM »
Looks like a good bear :tup:

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #256 on: May 26, 2015, 10:18:17 PM »
All on video

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #257 on: May 26, 2015, 10:27:02 PM »

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #258 on: May 27, 2015, 02:51:38 AM »
Will post some more pics in the AM. Home, it's in the meat cooler. Big thanks to DRock for the help tonight. 


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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #259 on: May 27, 2015, 05:45:52 AM »
Nice  :tup:

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #260 on: May 27, 2015, 05:57:00 AM »
Home at 2am in bed before 3am :bash: up at 5.

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #261 on: May 27, 2015, 07:46:08 AM »
Sounds fun nice bear guys

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #262 on: May 27, 2015, 08:17:53 AM »
Nice work stang!
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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #263 on: May 27, 2015, 08:40:27 AM »
Sounds fun nice bear guys
it was fun work this morning not so much.

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #264 on: May 27, 2015, 08:57:28 AM »
Sounds fun nice bear guys
it was fun work this morning not so much.

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #265 on: May 27, 2015, 09:29:14 AM »
Excellent! I'm happy for you Stang.  :tup: Now lets see some more pics and hear a good story.  :dunno:
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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #266 on: May 27, 2015, 09:59:17 AM »
Excellent! I'm happy for you Stang.  :tup: Now lets see some more pics and hear a good story.  :dunno:
tell them the story about how bad @$$ I am packing out bears.

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #267 on: May 27, 2015, 10:42:01 AM »
That would be nothing new D.
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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #268 on: May 27, 2015, 10:47:47 AM »
Story:

I feel like this story is a little less exciting than some, so I'll drag it out a little.

I've spent a lot of days up in the woods.  Most of them are up behind the gate at the end of Monroe Camp Rd.  I really didn't see a lot of activity early in the season.  Just one set of fresh peels and I can count on one or two hands the number of poo piles I saw.  I had one bear on my cam in my usual fall hunting spot, but pretty slim pickins. 

I spent a lot of evenings after work up in the woods, D-Rock came on many of them.  Dinker was there for one or two.  My girlfriend came on one.  Had a good time looking around, saw some strutting grouse which was pretty cool.  Saw some people stealing rocks in a Subaru... but I figured they were so terrified when they saw me they'll probably not be doing that again (who steals rocks?).  I bought the extended tire warranty at Discount tire and used it ($280 worth of new tires on that warrant for $20 a tire).  Thanks to Dinker and D-Rock for helping me out of some tight spots a few times on that road, which is better now, probably in large part to me.

The first bear I saw was a sow with cubs, way back on the Monroe Camp gate about 15 miles or so.  It was a real pretty clearcut, fun to watch them.  The second bear I saw I assume was a boar.  I saw it with my gf while hunting towards the north end of Lake Roesiger at a different gate.  We had a wine and movie night planned and were on a huge hill.  I opted out of shooting that one due to the significant rub on its butt and implications for my relationship.  I was beginning to regret not shooting that one, but hoped the bear gods would look down on me and give me an opportunity at something larger as a result of my patience.

Bring in... last night.  D-Rock and I went up the Monroe camp road again.  They've recently blocked off many of the clearcuts I used to check by car.  There was one walk that I hadn't done yet but wanted to try up there.  We walked probably a half mile or so in and out and saw more piles of bear poo than I had seen the entire year.  I REALLY expected to see whatever bear was living there.  I was a little sad as we walked out and back to the truck.  I told D-Rock, "you know how you always want to recheck places you've already seen bears, even though they're never really in the same spot twice... I'm going to do that to you".  We drove back to where I'd seen the sow with the cubs and I was explaining to him where I was and pointing to where I had seen her.  At the end of my finger I spotted a bear!  NO WAY!  Pretty much in the same spot. (Yes, saw him from the truck).  Glassed it quickly and assumed it was probably the sow with cubs again... but I couldn't find the cubs.  It didn't look very big.. and then it would come out of the grass and look okay.  I figured it was time and had D-Rock record the shot on the video camera.  I walked up the road and found a good rest and waited for this guy to pop out. 

You would think it would be hard for a bear to hide in a wide open clearcut, but that is probably the same reason we thought he was small, the vegetation is just thick this time of year and bears just aren't that tall at the back.  He walked out and gave me a broadside shot at probably ~100 yards.  I stuck my 123 grain 6.5 Grendel AMax through the heart and out the other side.  He tumbled, got up, ran 40 yards and expired.  I did fire an additional hail mary as he was running, but missed and it turns out it was unnecessary.

Fortunately there were roads above and below this clearcut, but the bear was too big to haul out on a stick like our usual neanderthal method.  Skinned it out in the field and quartered it up for the short haul back to the truck (only about 200 yards through a clearcut and downhill).  Still, a minor pain. 

I would've preferred it died on the road, why don't animals understand road hunting better? :chuckle:

Pretty good bear, very glad I waited.  Its at home in the meat cooler and the hide and head are in the freezer.  Has a nice fluffy coat and will probably just tan this one as I have a shoulder mount and a rug already in process.   :tup:

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Re: Spring Permit - Monroe - Winner's Lounge
« Reply #269 on: May 27, 2015, 10:51:09 AM »
I took both front quarters in my pack on my back the flung the rear end connected to both hind quarters over my shoulder and hiked out like a champ.

 


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