Here is a big hog that I got a picture of on my trail camera this past June. I thought it might be a sow as the smaller bear was taken there also and I thought it might be her cub from the previous year.
This is behind my place not far from our home. A funny story along with the bear photo's is to follow:
My wife decided that this would be her year to archery hunt with me. We bought her a bow in January of 2008 and spent most of the spring/summer shooting and going to 3-d shoots. So we hunt the first few days of elk season and the elk weren't very vocal. I have a few heavily used game trails that I hike and so I sent her up one to an old spur road and told her I would push through the timber for her and see if I could get the elk to cross the road in front of her. She wasn't going to be choosy as far as what to shoot. A cow with a bow would have suited her just fine. She has rifle hunted for many years and taken 3 bulls and many bucks. But archery is alot harder as most of you know. Anyway, she walks up the trail to the grassy spur road and was suppose to radio me to let me know she was in position. Well the call I got on the radio was not what I expected. She was whispering that something was in the bushes and it was NOT an elk! She was almost panicking. I headed up the trail and by the time I popped out on the spur she was on, the bear was on the road and heading towards her at 45 yards. Then the 2nd one popped out. I thought she would faint, but she stood there. Her bow with an arrow nocked, but shaking heavily. The first bear turned and walked back towards the second bear and I was able to make my way the 20 yards to her. I asked her to range them for me, as I had a bear tag. She was shaking so bad she couldn't get a range. I wanted to take one of them, but they were pretty small. All she could say was their momma must be in the bushes still, as we kept hearing tree's breaking in the woods. If the momma was the one in my trail camera pictures, she didn't want to meet her with only a stick with a blade on the end of it. The two younger bears slowly walked the other way and we too turned the other way. When we got to what my wife felt was a safe distance she had to sit down and just breathe for a few minutes. She hates bears! But she always makes excellent kill shots on them at the 3-d shoots.
