My 08 6.5 foot boar

[antlersoutwest]

i joined the forum yesterday and enjoy seeing everyones picts.
I thought that i'd share my bear I was able to harvest this last November.
I live in Utah which the rules are a bit different from WA. You have to draw out for a bear tag, I have been putting in for 5 years and finnaly drew! Once you draw you have to wait for 2 years to put in again. Hopefully I can draw out soon again. i would love to come to WA and hunt bear..

After months of hiking in some of the most ruggest country ive ever been in I finally filled my tag.
I was almost given up hope.. Day after day we would turn dogs loose and come back bear-less... frustrating.. The bears up here are wise
It was getting down to the final weeks of my bear hunt.
It has been snowing up here the last couple days, about a foot deep. A friend found a huge fresh track up the canyon early that morning and told us we better check it out before it gets old. We loaded up the hounds and headed up about 9:30. We turned dogs loose about 10am and the chase was on. We hiked in 3 miles winding our way straight up hill, through rock slides, thick down timber with about a foot of snow.
It was snowing the majority of the time, the hounds had a hard time picking up scent with all the snow but finally caught up to the boar.
We had him treed at noon and then the work began. It took us 3 hours to pack him out.. I could bearly move that next day I was so sore...
What a awsome experience! Im thrilled with my bear and cant thank Gary enough for helping me.
Taxidermist said that night he is 6.5 feet with a 22 inch skull
I am having him full body mounted on the wall, cant wait to get him back

[@RCHER]

Right on, congrats! Great pics. That's a big skull for a 6.5 footer, for sure. 

[tlbradford]

Great bear and welcome to the site.  

[muzzleman]

Congrats, nice looking bear, sounds like it was a fun hunt.

[lostcat]

Very very nice, welcome to the site.

[PacificNWhunter]

Great bear, and welcome to the site. I am jealous you get to hunt with hounds, but it's nice to be able to hunt bear every year without having to draw a tag.

[twisp_river_slayer]

nice bear!!!

[GoldTip]

Congrats on a beautiful bear.  Love that color.

[strutnrut1984]

congratulations on a really nice bear. lots of bears here in washington. your hubby is lucky to have such a good huntin partner.

[JACKALL]

Congrats on a great bear!

[saylean]

Good lookin bear! Congrats and welcome to the site!

[WDFW-SUX]

I glad you could take the time to remind some of our fellow members about the part of our heritage that we are now missing.

I sure that bow hunting is safe...........

[luvtohnt]

Congratulations on such a nice bear!! And welcome to the site.

Brandon

[agchawk]

Hey Antlers! I was wondering if you were going to post that great bruin on here or not. Again, CONGRATS on one fine bear!

[Wea300mag]

Great story and pics, thanks, and welcome to the site. If you like bear hunting, there will be lots of stories on here during our spring season and again during our fall hunt.