My respectable bear and Rasbo (pic added)

[woodman]

I went hunting yesterday and and wound up getting what I would consider a respectable male bear. It started out by me getting out at first light and putting the boots to the ground. After about four hours of hunting I ran into this bear. I looked at him to make sure he was a decent size and had no cubs. I took my shot and he dropped like a bag of potato's. He did wiggle just for a moment and I have known of bears getting up and escaping so I drilled a second round into him.

This is where the day got interesting. I put out a call to three people for help and one showed up. It was, Rasbo to the rescue. We worked hard to get the bear to the rigs and it was getting pretty warm out. When we got to the rigs, I realized that I had lost my keys somewhere during the drag. We used Jim's rig and struggled to get this bear loaded. It was either a heavy bear or we are getting old, I think maybe a combination of both. Jim drove me and my bear into town, showed the guys at my shop a quick view and then off to the taxidermist we went. Jim also drove me home to find spare keys but low and behold they were in my locked car. (DANG) We wound up working until the evening breaking into my car to get into it without busting out a window up in the hills.

I opened up the bears stomach and it was just full of berries. The taxidermist scale would not go up enough to weigh the bear but he said conservatively it would go 300 pounds plus. He was going to weigh it as he dismembered it and get me a close weight on it. I should know later today when I pick up the meat for my local meat shop to process.

I truly want to thank Rasbo (Jim) for all of his help. Jim is a stand up guy and a true friend in need.

The guy in the picture is Rasbo. The pics are from my cell phone, my good camera was locked in my car (DANG)

[Woodchuck]

Nicely done, you guys are so lucky to keep finding pistols on the ground where bears are or have been.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Well Damn man .... sounds like a every fun and messed up kinda day ... yeah thats a good one .. good job and sorry about the keys and windows geeeeeez I have the same problem with my keys .....NICE BEAR 

[bearmanric]

Good for you Woodman. That look's like a dandy bear. Rasbo is good people. Take care. Rick

[buckhorn2]

That is really a nice bear glad you found a good one. Sure is nice to have a friend just a phone call away. You guys turned a bear hunt into an adventure.

[bearpaw]

congrats woodman, nice bear.... 

awesome that you helped rasbo... 

[GoldTip]

Great bear, and another great story of how there are just some damned fine people on this site who are willing to help each other out.  I wouldn't have guessed it would be Rasbo, but hey, who knows!   Hope you know I'm just joshing you Rasbo.

[rasbo]

here's woodman and a couple of pics,he is the grey haired one in the pic,lol, what a blast.Joe has been determined to get a bear and has been going at it hard,and it paid off well for him..the pics are not doing the bear justice,this is a 300 plus bear..Im very glad to have been able to be involved with the day...they bear has a nice white V on his chest.Not one rub mark anywhere....I looked hard to find any signs of milk on the lips..LOLGreat bear Joe Cant wait to see what Fred does with it..

[xd2005]

Are we supposed to guess which is the bear and which is Rasbo?      

[runamuk]

congrats and Rasbo is good people.....very nice bear

[rasbo]

here is a little better pic of the head on him,Im the one with the nice hairdo,lol, not any fat on this guy to speak of,,,Imagine a silent picture show,then speed it up,us two trying to get this guy out of the dark timber..Joe would fall,I would fall..Oh did Joe mention it was uphill all the way...and we were barefoot...here is something weird,not one yellowjacket bothered us or the bear..Guess even they have feelings for the old and the crippled 

[rasbo]

joe do you want to use my truck to take the bear to MT view?

[woodman]

joe do you want to use my truck to take the bear to MT view?

That would be great, you know how much stuff is inside of mine

[ribka]

That is a really nice bear.

Berry fed should be good eating
Rasbo good on you.

[Machias]

Awesome, nice to see a solid bear hit the ground, congrats!  Rasbo is certainly a stand up guy!!