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Backyard bear #2
« on: November 13, 2016, 12:48:38 PM »
For the last couple months my neighbor has had a big Bear destroying her apple trees so she insisted I hunted her 85 acres and remove the problem bear. After hunting this bear off and on for the last week's with no luck. Finally  a couple evenings ago he slipped up and showed himself with a few minutes a shooting light left. As I walked between my garage and house I looked up and seen him under a big Apple tree. I snuck to within 20 yards of him.
Made good shot with a 162gr sst and he took off into some dense reprod. After a few minutes I didn't hear any sort of death moan and it sounded like he had covered alot of ground. So i decided to let him sit over night before heading into a possible dangerous situation.
In the morning I walked back and started tracking him only to find out here's went about 100ft from where I shot him.
Took a few pictures trying to show this bears true size and no picture does it justice.
It took 3 of us to barely get this bear into a Nissan Frontier. Glad I didn't have a full size truck haha.

« Last Edit: November 13, 2016, 01:00:26 PM by bankwalker »

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Re: Backyard bear #2
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2016, 12:51:05 PM »
Big boy there

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Re: Backyard bear #2
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2016, 01:19:07 PM »
Nice work  :tup:

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Re: Backyard bear #2
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2016, 02:39:44 PM »
He's a dandy. Are you gonna rug him?
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Re: Backyard bear #2
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2016, 02:41:50 PM »
He's a dandy. Are you gonna rug him?

No he sat over night for almost 13 hours from time of shot to the time I got him home. I was more concerned about loosing meat. Ended up not losing any meat and now wish I wold have done a better job skinning.

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Re: Backyard bear #2
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2016, 08:23:11 PM »
Nice bear and good idea leaving him be overnight.  Not worth busting brush at night with a wounded bear.

 


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