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Offline True Sportsman

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First Bear 2008
« on: December 24, 2010, 02:58:13 PM »
I wanted to share some pics and a story with you guys of my first bear.
It was the first day of modern elk season and my dad and I were looking for elk. There are a lot of people that hunt the same area we were, so my plan was to hunt right off of a main road, down a blocked spur. As it just got light my dad and I crept down this spur road. 15 minutes into opening day I look down this road and at the end, sitting on a hill is a bear. I whispered to my dad, and I slowly laid down in the road grade. He looked like a good bear, and I could only see his neck and head. It was on a long straight away and we later ranged it at 147 yds. I held a couple inches below the base of his skull of squeezed the trigger. He rolled down the hill. My dad and I trotted up to where he was. He had wedged himself between some downed alders. He was still moaning, so I shot him again.
The crazy part of the story was, the bear was sitting on a hillside overlooking a dry creekbed. In the dry creekbed was a dead bull elk. It was a good bull for the area. A heavy 4 X 5. You could tell the bear had been eating on him a while because there was piles of bear crap everywhere. My guess for size was about 225lb bear.

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2010, 03:02:33 PM »
Awesome, congrats on a fine bear... Did you take the horns on elk ?

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2010, 03:04:07 PM »
The first and only bear I shot was in Montana in the month of May and he had been eating winter kills.  Oh, what a stink!

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2010, 03:09:31 PM »
It did smell really bad, but it was worth it... Nope, we didnt keep the elk horns. I'm sure someone came along and grabbed them, though.

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2011, 10:33:16 AM »
My first bear was eating maggots off of a coug kill! Nasty! Cool pics, nice bear!

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2011, 12:07:41 PM »
Great color! Nice first bear.

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2011, 12:29:11 PM »
If you're boot hunting bears, you better take 'em any way you can get 'em... pretty coat too!

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2011, 09:05:59 PM »
congrats!

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2011, 02:04:32 AM »
nice bear!

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Re: First Bear 2008
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2011, 08:37:44 AM »
My first bear was eating maggots off of a coug kill! Nasty! Cool pics, nice bear!

I just read your post. Man, that is bad stuff right there... Not many things truly disgust me, but maggots do.

 


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