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Offline b.roberts

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First bear
« on: May 13, 2013, 04:32:14 PM »
I drew a spring bear tag for 49 degrees north.  First  thing I did was hop onto my favorite forum and did a quick search.  I gathered from helpful members on this sight that the best time to start hunting would be the first or second week of May.  then I called my brother-in-law, who lives outside of Newport, to see if he would be available to help me find my first bear.  We set up a hunting trip for the second weekend in May. 

If not for the thousand plus dollars in fuel and the hundreds of miles hiked that I have invested into getting a bear over the past 4 years, I might have felt guilty for how easy this hunt became.

So I got to bil's place Thursday evening and he gave me some hunting options.  We both wanted to check out the ski resort area, but when he saw what sorry shape I was in from a really nasty cold, he thought that we could start off easy and give me one more day of rest. 

We woke up early on Friday, had coffee and hit the road by 4:15 am.  We arrived at our destination shortly before 5:00am.  game plan was to take a short, level ground hike to an area that we could do a lot of glassing and sitting.  Game plan changed because we only walked a few hundred yards before we spotted a bear.  The bear was only 100 yards from us but laying down and I didn't have a shot.  the bear looked right at us, stood up and resumed eating.  I took the shot and rolled the bear.  We had the bear field dressed and loaded into the truck by 6:00. 

We got the bear over to the neighbors house and boned, ground, and wrapped the meat.  Cape was saved for our Mom who wants a bear mount for her front entry.  We had all the meat in the freezer by 10:30am. 

Then we spent the next couple of days building a front entry roof for my sister. 

Sunday, our parents came over from Priest River and we had a great mother's day celebration.

A very special thanks to my lovely wife who sent me off with her blessing to hunt, guilt free, over mothers day weekend.  I hadn't realised that the weekend we planned to hunt was mothers day until one week before the trip.  Special thanks to also go to my sister and brother-in-law for hosting me, feeding me like a king, and finding me a bear.

Also, I would like to thank all the helpful members of this forum.  I have learned a lot and am a better hunter because of this fine community.

I got back home today, Gig Harbor, and it sure is good to be back with my family.  Now I gotta go cook my wife a gourmet dinner.:)

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Re: First bear
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2013, 04:43:38 PM »
 :tup:

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Re: First bear
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2013, 04:52:49 PM »
nice job. it looks like it has a good coat. hard work does pay off

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Re: First bear
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2013, 05:53:12 PM »
Cool story :tup: great looking bear Roberts.
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Re: First bear
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2013, 05:58:47 PM »
Sounds like a busy weekend!

Congrats on the bear. :IBCOOL:
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Re: First bear
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2013, 06:00:33 PM »
Sweet :tup: :tup:
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Re: First bear
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2013, 06:07:12 PM »
Congrats
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Re: First bear
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2013, 06:30:55 PM »
Nice job. Never feel guilty about the easy ones, like you said there is a lot of work that goes into it before the kill. Cherish those so called"easy ones".
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Re: First bear
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2013, 06:36:57 PM »
Thanks all.  It was a very fun weekend.  The bear weighed 170 lbs field dressed.  It definitely shrunk as we walked up to him. But he had a beautiful, thick coat on him.I was proud to bring him home.

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Re: First bear
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2013, 06:41:15 PM »
Such nice coats on those spring bears. It should make a great mount. With guts he was probably 210-225 then that's still a very nice bear.
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First bear
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2013, 06:44:44 PM »
And you should be proud of your first bear! Congrates!

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Re: First bear
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2013, 06:48:03 PM »
Well done!
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Re: First bear
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2013, 06:52:18 PM »
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Re: First bear
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2013, 06:52:58 PM »
Congrats! Nice Bear  :tup:
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Re: First bear
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2013, 07:32:01 PM »
Congrats on a nice trophy  :tup: And thanks for sharing the story!!!
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