I took my cousin out this past weekend to help him fill his spring bear tag. This was the only weekend he was able to get out and hunt, so the pressure was on. It was a great day! We got to our bear spot at 9:00 am and at 12:45 pm Kevin ended the hunt by shooting the sixth bear we had seen. I captured the entire hunt on video.
This was the first bear we saw. He was 150 yds away. The wind was marginal and right when we decided he was a shooter, he took off.
After he left, we spotted a smaller bear 100 yds from the first bear. We decided to let him go.
Later, a small bear walked out of the woods 80 yds above us and started rubbing his back on a tree.
A little while later, we saw another bear, this one a small chocolate.
An hour later, a small cinnamon bear come out of the woods and started to feed. Before I could get the camera on him he bolted back into the woods. Then we saw what scared him, it was a bigger cinnamon/chocolate bear. We decided this bear was a shooter.
With swirling winds, we somehow managed to close the distance to 210 yds. Just as Kevin was getting ready to shoot, the bear put his nose up in the air. I thought for sure he had winded us, then BOOM. In the picture you can see the 270 grain slug from the .375 H & H piercing the bears shoulder.
We found the bear 100 yds away, just inside the timber.
