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BH45 Bear Adventure (Part 1) Right Plan , (Part 2) starts tomorrow !
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O.k So I guess it is that time again to tell a few lies ..
Last night I was thinking what to do this morning . Should I go to work or go play . Well at about 4:30 am I woke up and decided to play . I have been wanting to hit this area for some time now but just had no motivation So I decided today is the day . I load up my stuff and off I go . I arrive at the gate about 4:50 am to find the gate wide open ..
What is going on I said to myself and was thinking about leaving because I thought someone popped the lock
after getting out to check it out I noticed a sign that read ( Open to the public from Aug 2nd thru Aug 31st ) WTH ..This can not be ..
I am thinking now that this may not be a good idea since people have been driving in and the bear are hiding .But now I am here I best check it out
I drive in and part about a mile or so from where I want to be . I then find a spot where I can watch an old skid road where I know bears have crossed in the past and sit for about 45 min. to an hour . I can see a good 100 yrds down the grade but nothing comes . I get up and walk another couple miles up the main road and hit a few more grades that take off from the main road ..After about an hour or so I decide to head back down where I came from . I am moving slowly and stopping a lot to listen and enjoying my free time by myself . As I get to the corner where I was sitting the 1st time I ease around the corner and stop . I look down the grade and
there he is
I throw my pack on the ground and lay on my belly and throw the gun on the pack ..As I get ready he goes into an indentation in the road ( skid road ) not paved !!!
.. I am waiting for to p[op up again ..What happens next is just beyond anything I could ever imagine in my 40yrs of hunting
As he pops up I get him in the scope and my eye goes BLURRRRRRRR.....WTH IS GOING ON
I can not see him
being a left or right hand shooter I throw the gun in my right hand and get him in the scope and he disappears .
I have never been in this situation in my whole life .. Is this age catching up with me or what ?? I guess I am off to see an eye doctor because this can not be happening ...I have always been right or left but instinctively I go with my left .. I guess I will be using my right eye now ...just crazy . I was going back in tonight but the HAWKS ARE PLAYING..
AGAIN ...NOT BEING PATIENT JUST BIT ME IN THE ARZ AGAIN ......
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Re: BH45 Bear Advanture (Part 1) Right Plan , Wrong move !
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BH,
Do you wear glasses? The same thing happened to me a few years back. Couldn't focus through my glasses, as normal. It was freaky.
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NO ..But the last year I noticed I can not read anything up close I have to hold it a mile away to read it ..was it because the scope magnified what I was seeing by bringing it closer
I am still in Awe over this ...could have been home in minutes with the whole bear ....I was just thinking how many bear encounters I have had over the years and I have been blessed but I think the bear gods finally had enough
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welcome to the golden years, they will keep getting worse too...
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A bear hunt versus a Seahawks PRESEASON game? I love my Hawks but that one is easy for me...Plus, I've found it is easier to DVR a game than a hunt. Get that bear!
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It wasn't his time.
Good luck on round 2# with him.
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More to this story after I cut my grass..
And I did not watch the Hawk game because all I kept thinking about was this bear
I hate to keep BLAH BLAH BLAHING ...but after last night and then this morning I need to wait until noon and have a good stiff one ...
Not only is my eyes going but I need to go back to school and learn how to spell again ...
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I am in a hurry so I make it quick .. last night I decided to wait until 6pm to head out since I figured it is so hot and doesn't cool off until about 8 ..Again what a mistake that was .. I parked my truck about 1 mile from where I seen him earlier thinking that was the way to go about it so he would not hear me pulling in ..Well I park the truck and load the gun and start walking up the man road . I am walking on the side of the road because it has grass and I can walk quietly ..I get no more than 50 to 60 yards and all hell breaks loose off to my left side ..All I see is hind feet and hair taking off ..he was no more than 15 ft away
This place is a jungle and the only way I will get him is to catch him in the road ..So I wake up again thinking your dead this morning and even excited about it ..I clear me out a nice place to sit last night before I left and also went and got a gallon of bug spray
Those suckers were carrying me off at one point ..I get there at 5:30 ..Instantly I hear him tearing up stuff ..Squirrels are just going nuts.. I am thinking your done this time buddy ...The noises keep going on for about an hour ..Off and on ...then complete quiet .. I am thinking he smelled me or something ..about 20 minutes later ..about 8:45 now I step out onto the grade and just as I did I look up and he is walking across the road about 200 yrds above me ...
He never stopped once ..Gone ! So I will head out again about 5:30 this time and hunker in again ..
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Get him man!!! Don't let him make ya look like a fool.
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HE HAS ...I just sicked my friend on him ..I have to work this weekend and now until September ..unless I sneak a day in somewhere .. I am a September Bear Hunter anyway .. let him get fat and furry ! I be back
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Good luck
im excitedly waiting for September 1st my self
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I will keep it live and real ..I can not say I ever have had 4 bear encounters and never fired a shot ..this morning I woke up thinking about that damn bear and decided I would give it a shot since we have cooler weather and over cast . Well I keep to my same game plan as I have for the last week or so . Get in and sit down and wait . Well again I wait and wait and wait .. Nothing crossing be 9am ..Last week he crossed in front of me about 8:30 am .This morning I sat until about 8:30 and walked up the road following my same routine knowing persistence is usually the answer .
About 9:00 am I decided to turn around and go back .. As soon as I get to where he was last weekend I slow down and stop and listen and keep moving really slow ..just as I start to move again I hear something so I stop and listen for at least 10 minutes ..nothing ..then I take another step and crash crash crash
This sucker is smart .So this is twice now he has been in the exact same spot trying to cross ..I may need my tree stand to kill this bear .
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I don't think he is smarter than you, old age is kicking your arse though!
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I'd change your plan a bit, show up a bit earlier and sit still till 10:am. Tree stand may help your view a bit but can also make you more visible and it puts your noise above the brush where it can be heard from farther away.
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Thought I may have seen it all but I guess today added something a little different from what I am used to seeing or hoping to see .. I figured I would hit this spot one more time for good measures but it turns out that a few hunters have discovered my spot ..not that they really know whats going on do to them all driving up and down the road hoping one will just stand there and play dumb
These bear hear trucks going by all the time but they are not stupid ..Once the rigs go by the bigger ones will cross after they leave but I have noticed when they do decide to cross they never stop ..There and gone in a second .
Anyway back to the story ...Once I get to the area I park my truck just inside the gate and walk in .. I get about 100 yrds and here comes a rig behind me .. This guy was really cool ..We talk a minute and he says I will turn around and let you have it
that was shocking
So he leaves and I continue up the road .. I get to my spot and sit down ..About 10 minutes later here comes another rig ..Just hauling arz like no man business. All in camo and blew right past me .. Now I am thinking why in the hell am I out here on a weekend
After he blows by me I figured I would hang until about 9:30 and maybe the bear will cross anyway
at exactly 9:20 here comes another rig ..A big noisy diesel
He sees me and stops ..Does not shut off the rig and we talk for a minute ...then he shuts off the rig ..We talk for about 10 minutes I figured I am screwed anyway So I will shoot the bull ..After he leaves I hang for another 20 minutes and slowly work my way back . I stop and sit on a log just in front of the biggest beaver pond ..Maybe 10 others in this area ..I am sitting there quietly when all hell breaks loose .. I hear 2 bears fighting and they are tearing sheeeeet up .. No way for me to get to where the sound was coming from because its a huge swampy area ,, this went on for about 3 to 5 minutes and then everything got quiet .. Mind you that this happened about 10 minutes after this guy stopped to talk to me .. JUST CRAZY SHEEEET Happening to me in this area ..Just a tough spot to hunt because its so thick ..Even with a tree stand would be tough ..I sat there for another hour hoping something would head to the road a cross but nothing ever came
First time in my life I ever heard 2 bear fighting ..it was something to hear !
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