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Offline dreadi

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Bear Season 2025
« on: August 05, 2025, 11:23:55 AM »
That guy Bango Skank sure knows what he's talking about. Thank you, for all of it.



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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2025, 11:35:37 AM »
Awesome, congrats @dreadi !!  Hopefully we will read the story at some point.

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2025, 12:19:30 PM »
Sweet
beer---it's whats for dinner

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2025, 12:42:44 PM »
Congrats! I was wondering who would start this thread this year!  :tup:

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2025, 01:04:48 PM »
Right on, congrats!!

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2025, 01:50:39 PM »
Hell yeah!  Congrats, that’ll be good eatin’!

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2025, 02:49:07 PM »
Awesome bear! Congrats!

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2025, 03:16:23 PM »
Awesome! It's nice to see some bears going down.

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2025, 04:45:19 PM »
Nice work, sir!!  Congrats, the smile says it all.

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2025, 05:59:38 PM »
Congrats!!!

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2025, 07:29:55 PM »
That guy Bango Skank sure knows what he's talking about. Thank you, for all of it.



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Yep, he knows bear hunting for a fact. He shares his success with me every year lots of cool pics.😉
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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2025, 07:51:17 PM »
Congrats!!! Nice color phase...
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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2025, 07:55:09 PM »
That guy Bango Skank sure knows what he's talking about. Thank you, for all of it.



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Cool bear, Dana!
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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2025, 09:01:21 PM »
Outstanding! Congrats!

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2025, 11:05:49 PM »
Thank you, all!

Without risking giving away any of Bango's methods or spots, I'll say that we have been trying to coordinate our calendars for a few seasons and it finally was able to happen. He was very generous with his time and was accepting that I had a short window to hunt with him, and that I wanted to hunt in short range with a particular weapon. We did things his way and I very much enjoyed hunting bears with him, in an area I had never been in, doing it in a way I'd never done before, and eating wild berries the whole time.


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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2025, 07:21:34 AM »
Way to get on the board Dana! Congrats!
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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2025, 11:26:20 AM »
Nice coloring - way to get it done!
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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2025, 12:41:24 PM »
Heck ya.....congrats 👍

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2025, 09:56:32 PM »
Very cool!
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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2025, 06:27:49 AM »
Awesome! Glad you could get it done. We saw 1 good bear each day for the first three days. Two black and the biggest was cinnamon. Couldn’t close the deal and am now back to work so hopefully I can find some time this coming weekend and next week to get back out there.

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2025, 02:38:00 PM »
If anyone is wanting more photos of 2025 bears then take a look at the "Washington Bear Hunting" facebook group. A lot of bears being posted the last couple days.

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Re: Bear Season 2025
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2025, 04:24:54 PM »
If anyone is wanting more photos of 2025 bears then take a look at the "Washington Bear Hunting" facebook group. A lot of bears being posted the last couple days.

That’s good to know! I just thought the bear hunting was crap so far. Lol
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