Spring bear down! NE WA

[Wea300mag]

Great start to the bear season, congrats!

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Good lookin bear! Congrats

[MLBowhunting]

Whopper 

[Boss .300 winmag]

My first bear had a similar white necklace.

Congrats, those make great shoulder mounts!

[bearmanric]

Sweet i can do a Howler not a problem. Rick

[iusmc2002]

Congrats on the bear. How about a pic of it's teeth?

[Ripper]

Beauty of a bruin! Congrats 

[elkoholic1]

    congrats!!!!!

[bearpaw]

Nice bear, congrats... 

[bear hunter]

Thanks ever one for the congrats and THANK YOU Toby,Liz and the kids for letting me set up camp. You guys are one the nicest family.  I had a blast on ground squirrel hunting and scoutting with Toby. We need to do that again next year. Hope I was not to much trouble. LOL   I am going to post the pic's in a few. Thanks again. 

[billythekidrock]

Congrats on the bear. How about a pic of it's teeth?

Nice color. Thanks.

[RadSav]

My first bear had a similar white necklace.

Congrats, those make great shoulder mounts!

Interesting mount.  Never seen a shoulder mount of a bear laying on his side before   Looks like he had some serious thick hair.

Congratualations Bear Hunter.  Never thought I would see the first bear down thread coming from the NE

[zackmioli]

congrats! nice to finally see something down! cant wait for the story!

[bear hunter]

Well not much to say. It took me almost 2 weeks to find a place to hunt up in the hills because of land owner access and snow. So I did a lot of driving. I found some state land the had lots of green grass Wednesday and So Toby and I went scouting and ground squirrel hunting the next day. We found some nice areas for bear and slaughter the squirrels for the farmers. So I finally pulled my self out of bed after 1.5 weeks of hunting I got up early two days in a row. I missed a nice Tom on Toby's property a little after 6 am. I went to set up and was busted before I was even started. I tried to peek over the edge. BUSTED in the open and after 2 shots later. I saw him fly a way.  So I jumped in the truck and headed for the woods. I tried find the area Toby and I scouted the day before but I was lost. LOL I just ended up driving to the other side and hit the hills. I drove around a lot of tree falls and through snow. I found lots of nice green meadows and nice hills to scope. I come around a corn looked off the edge. Sh=t  I spotted a bear running through the clear cut. I dropped a round in my rifle and took aim. He made it over the hill. "CRAP" but I notest black through the brush. The bear ran in a dip and was going to pop up on the other hill side. I need to make the shot count before he is gone forever. I took aim and waited. The bear ran right in my view then I fired my Remington 763 in 350 Rem Mag with a 200gr bullet. That was around 7:15 am. He started flipping and rolling down hill out of sight. The shot was about 180 to 200 yards at a running bear. I went after him and I found nothing. I fallowed his tracks that went to the right but the bear tricked me. I walked the hills for 2 hours at a 45 to 60 degree angle. I worked my way back to the truck and call Toby to ask if he could help. I needed a chain saw and a ride back up the hill. So I headed out to pick up Toby and on the way down I almost ran over a Tom. I jumped out and went after him. He screwed up and had to run back towards me. I dropped him with my 10g with #4 shot. So I tagged him and tossed the big guy in the truck. I ended up getting to Toby's around 11 ish. We loaded his gear and chain saw. Off we go back to the scene of the crime. We found the lower road but had to chain saw a lot of tree's down. Then we drove back up the place I shot him and started down to track. Toby hit the right side and I hit the left. after a hour I spotted him. He ran 200 yards down hill and hid in some trees. As I gutted and dragged the bear down to the road. Toby hiked back to my truck then drove back down the mountain to the next clear cut road. I only had to drag him 60 yards and roll anther 50 yards right on to the tailgate. Thank God for Tobys help or i would have to hand saw my way in by hand. Thanks again Toby and thanks for your service. I have been trying to post and had to type it over. I don't care if I have some spelling error's. I will post pic's after words so I have a story up. Unit was Huckleberry 121

[EA338AI]

Congrats