Bear Down! Labor Day Weekend 2008

[hard hunter]

great job on the stroy and the pics and congrats

[russ]

great looking bear! awesome detailed story and pictures!

[rainshadow1]

Great job, Guys! Way to go!

[Timberlineduke]

Nice Job......thanks for the story!

[Ray]

Well done. Good lookin bear 

[Bean Counter]

...I watched as mamma licked its rear from darn near its belly all the way to the top of the tail. YUCK! Time to go elsewhere....

Congrats. Great story and thanks for the pics.

  Sorry had to do this..

I've read that a deer will eat its kids urine/feces and hold it in stomach until they get on the move. The idea being that predators will smell the waste and would have tracked them down with that.  Perhaps this fawn just dropped a messy one and the mom was trying to clean things up.

Boy, I'll never complain about changing a diaper again. 

[cohoho]

Great job and a good bear.  The perfect way to go - in your sleep.   

[bucklucky]

Nice Job Willy! Cant believe that sucker was sleeping out in that clearcut. I guess anything can happen! I need one of them Hunt-Wa hats before I go on my elk hunt this coming weekend  seems like they are awfull lucky!! Congrats man!!

[wf70gonehunting]

Sweet nice bear guys I would love to find one of those this year  :mgun

[addicted]

sweet. good looking bear. congrats

i can never even see them during season and they are out there sleeping for you guys.

[shag]

Excellent post.   Good job!

[billythekidrock]

Thanks guys. We had fun and it only took a couple extra minutes to take the photos. So many times we think we will take enough pictures and don't. I have very few pictures of kill sites plus packing so the last year or so I have made a point to take more. The fact that I pack a digital camera allows me to "burn more film" so to speak. Someday all I will have is memories and I want most of those on film.

There are a few comments that I would comment back on in one post.

Yes, it was very odd to me for it to be sleeping in the open. I know it happens and people find them like that, but not to me.

It was right around 9 am that I found him sleeping.

Yes, it was North.

I too am curious about it's age. Lots of color and cracks to the teeth with a little bit of wear and a lot of rot on the uppers between the canines.

I am not sure about the hats being lucky. I missed on the day before and 2007 I did not kill a thing. First year in over 20 that I was skunked.

Yea he died in his sleep. Just like I want to go.

[boneaddict]

I've stumbled onto two sleeping bears that I can remember.  One was in the spring which would be more characterisitic, I was shed hunting and hopped over a log and landed on him.  Still to this day not sure which one of us crapped our pants the worst.  The other was asleep in a log.

[Ghost Hunter]

Great job!!  And all I got was rained on and a few huckleberries.

[Michelle_Nelson]

  Congrats on the Great looking Bear.  Thanks for posting the Story!  Now I need to just find time to get back in the woods and hunt for my bear.