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.
dave
