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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #75 on: May 29, 2013, 06:18:13 AM »
Nice Color Phase right there!! Good Work! :tup:
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #76 on: May 29, 2013, 08:17:21 AM »
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.

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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #77 on: May 29, 2013, 08:23:40 AM »
Here is a pic of the bear Mike did shoot several minutes before sending the Partition on its way.

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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #78 on: May 29, 2013, 08:30:11 AM »
Your chocolate bear on the other ridge looks like a masher. :twocents:
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #79 on: May 29, 2013, 09:34:52 AM »
Man......That is some steep country.
Thanks for taking us along on these hunts.  :tup:
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #80 on: May 29, 2013, 07:58:47 PM »
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!
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #81 on: May 29, 2013, 08:08:54 PM »
Wow.  That's a big one.  Nice work! :tup:
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #82 on: May 30, 2013, 07:00:06 AM »
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!
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #83 on: May 30, 2013, 07:43:15 AM »
Congrats  Mike  Nice Bear.
Rufous....Thanks for the photos and story.
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #84 on: May 30, 2013, 08:00:26 AM »
Congrats on a nice bear. Have fun cleaning off the dirt and grass after laying hide like that. lol
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #85 on: May 30, 2013, 12:55:33 PM »
My buddy's bear skull green scored 19 and 7/16".
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #86 on: May 30, 2013, 02:15:10 PM »
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.  :bfg:

Good luck on tag #3 would be quite the season to slam that big (golden-boy) up there for a finale!!
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #87 on: May 30, 2013, 02:51:38 PM »
Only my buddy Mike C. and I drew so we are done.
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #88 on: May 30, 2013, 02:56:25 PM »
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  :chuckle:  :chuckle:
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Re: Rufous' 2013 Oregon Spring Bear Hunt
« Reply #89 on: May 31, 2013, 01:25:39 PM »
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.


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