Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt

[Timberstalker]

Nice Color Phase right there!! Good Work!

[Rufous]

Rats! It is pouring rain. We are going to get soaked. After looking at Google Earth I am pretty certain that the bear Mike shot is not the bear I saw. The one I saw was on a different ridge. It was a big one too. Here is a pic of it from about 1000 yards away.

[Rufous]

Here is a pic of the bear Mike did shoot several minutes before sending the Partition on its way.

[Timberstalker]

Your chocolate bear on the other ridge looks like a masher.

[quadrafire]

Man......That is some steep country.
Thanks for taking us along on these hunts. 

[Rufous]

The meat and hide recovery was not nearly as bad as I feared it would be. It did not rain on us until just after we got everything back up to the quad and tied down. Got some nice pics of a couple birds, one of which I had never seen before- the Green Tailed Towhee. We have seen the Black Headed Grosbeaks at our home before as well as Lazuli Bunting which I saw up there today as well.

Got a pic of Mike with the hide laid out. Squared 6' 7".
Found some puffballs- this one was huge!

[Timberstalker]

Wow.  That's a big one.  Nice work!

[BLUEBULLS]

Congrats to you both! Great photos and play by play story! We're heading up tomorrow to hopefully kill bear #3 for the year, sure is fun!

[gramps]

Congrats  Mike  Nice Bear.
Rufous....Thanks for the photos and story.

[washingtonmuley]

Congrats on a nice bear. Have fun cleaning off the dirt and grass after laying hide like that. lol

[Rufous]

My buddy's bear skull green scored 19 and 7/16".

[Bob Williams1]

Holy Shinto!!

The action I'm seeing through your guys' eyes has got me stoked big time... Love the country, love the concept...Bears in open terrain .300 win mag with a glass top ready to roll. 

Good luck on tag #3 would be quite the season to slam that big (golden-boy) up there for a finale!!

[Rufous]

Only my buddy Mike C. and I drew so we are done.

[Bob Williams1]

Oh my bad i read bluebulls comment and thought it was yours.

Great Bear man..I would be one proud dude rollin up with that in the back a the truck.

Were ya able to get the you tube stuff figured out? We're not excited to see it nuttin   

[Rufous]

Apologies for poor overall video. Not sure why the first part was so shaky. After he fired I switched from camera to my binocular to see if it was a good hit. Should have stayed filming as you would have seen the bear doing quite a cartwheeling down the steep slope before it got lodged in some brush.


http://youtu.be/J2S_OTgQzYs