This past weekend I finally connected on a Big Boy. I've never killed one even close to this size.
I shot him just before last light after a 3 hr sit. 5 or 6 does popped out of the reprod 200 yards below me then this guy came out chasing. I had some serious buck fever on this one. He was shot not far from the B&C blacktail boundary but on the wrong side of the line. Green score is 135 1/8 gross, 126 net.
He was taken in the same clearcut I've seen 5 bears in in this year, including the one I shot in August, so I decided to pack him out solo that night as I didn't want to donate one to the critters. It was a little bit creepy but rewarding. I didn't get back to camp until midnight.
I had a multi-season tag and had passed on many deer earlier in the year including a decent 2x3 blacktail with my bow at 10 yards, which in a normal year, I would have taken without hesitation. Glad I waited.
