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LongTatLaw
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Well, after several days of no hunting me and my buddy headed to the woods. Down near the Skook. Any way, got there late...no time to climb a tree. I start trying to call him a elk..and theres a young bull trying to bugle at me from 1/2 mile and not getting any closer...
I hear something 50-60 yards away...i whisper to my buddy to look for it..so he stands up (we were sitting against a log). He throws up his scope...is tracking some and whispers. Its a bear! I say shoot..shoot...shoot it... he says he cant.
I stood up and see a bear 40 yards away walking slow in the open. I didnt mind taking the shot. 300 win mag started the job...he ran 10 yards and got stopped by a downed tree...when he began to crest it...shot number two put him down.
I dont have a pocket knife...no meat pack...no camera. We drive 1 hr home, get a buddy, and head back an hr drive.
Get there and my good buddy security guard opens the gate so I can drive to within a 1/4 mile of the bear. But he says i have less than an hr to get back out the gate before he gets off work... 65 minutes later with 1/2 a complete bear on my back Im back out the gate.
The rest was a late night stop by Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy shop.
Its a decent sized bear...not record book but beautiful to me. This has turned out to be a decent 1st year hunting in WA.
Thanks for reading.
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Some pics
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More pics and Michelle at work on him in my personal album!!
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Re: Got me a Bear!!
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Congrats......where are you taking the meat for processing?
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Nice Bear!!! Congrats
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sounds like a good time
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Grats buddy...sweet bear! I like it
Glad to hear you enjoyed your first year hunting in WA...Thanks for the post!
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Congrats on a nice bear.
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Excellent! Gotta love getting those critters. How are the rugs here, thin or half way decent? A couple I have seen are very thin but might have been an early bears....
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Longtats bear will make a nice rug. The hair was not all the way prime but it was close. It will deffinetly make a great rug.
I must say for him never skinning out a bear for a rug he did a great job making the proper incissions and skinning the bear.
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I think this bear will make a good rug. Not alot of "wooly" under fur, but nice long guard hairs. The pics don't do it justice. While the pads seemed small (split & salted) the skull is decent sized and it will square just over 6ft.
Definately a great first bear!
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Well he's not your big 400 pounder hat you had cornered, but he is a Dadny. Congrats on your bear and great year in Washington. I'm glad this hunt was a little more trouble free compared to your elk. Congrats to you!
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Nice bear!
And here I was thinking all the bears had denned up/1
Congrats!
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Quote from: littletoes on November 11, 2007, 06:09:23 PM
Nice bear!
And here I was thinking all the bears had denned up/1
Congrats!
Not yet, on the westside, if at all.
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