Machias' 2018 Idaho Bear Season

[Machias]

Sorry, no photos until this evening.  Had a really nice red boar show up a few days ago on the bait.  Pretty sure I have him on camera in 2015, but not last year.  I went out with a friend to hunt our baits yesterday and he was taking his son.  They double checked their rifle, a scoped .444.  It was shooting way right and low and no amount of dialing could get the shot to move.  They were going to leave and hunt another day.  Normally I use my bow, but as fate would have it I had brought my open sight .30-.30 for something different.  I told him to go ahead and use my rifle.  His boy took a couple of practice shots and was right on the money.  I really had a good feeling about them seeing a bear tonight.  Right after 8pm they had a black come into the bait buy only stood there for a second as he was chased off by this bear.  Nice broadside shot, blew out both lungs.  Bear ran about 50ish yards and piled up.  Young man had killed his first bear and holy smokes what a toad.  Gutted, all three of us could not get him off the ground.  Took us an hour and 20 minutes to get him 150 yards back up to the road.  Got out of there at midnight and fell into bed at 0110.  He has a fantastic coat, super thick and about as red as any I have seen.  Really big skull, just a really nice bear.

[Timberstalker]

Awesome, congrats on number 2!
Cant wait to see the photos!

[elkrack]

Awesome job!👍🏻

[JakeLand]

Right on !!!

[washingtonmuley]

Congratulations!!

[lord grizzly]

baits are getting hot now. 3 different color phases hitting mine. ones a no brainer, just gotta catch up with him.

[jmscon]

Awesome! Can’t wait to see some pics!

[Machias]

baits are getting hot now. 3 different color phases hitting mine. ones a no brainer, just gotta catch up with him.

Good luck!!

[Machias]

On the bait

[Machias]

These photos at night do not really show how red he is.

[Machias]

Finally in the truck

[Machias]

Nice bear, hard to tell, but he has a nice wide head!

[Limhangerslayer]

Nice bear Fred,  congrats to the hunter

[Timberstalker]

Great bear!

[idaho guy]

Nice bear! Getting it done!