Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: saylean on April 26, 2013, 09:07:09 PM
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More to follow...work to be done first...its a dandy bear.
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Nice
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Happy to hear it. Take care of the bear, then post up a story and pics please.
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Sweet!!
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Congrats can't wait for the story and pics
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Awesome!
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:tup:
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Awesome! Tag for photos and story
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Great, pics and story?
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Tag
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Sweet! Had to stay home this weekend, but ill be out to Copalis again next weekend.
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Nice ..can not wait to see it :tup:
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Sweetness
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:tup:
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Nice work X, way to get it done!
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OK now great job! Now the pics???? :tup:
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Congrats, hmmm bear pics. :tup:
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Meats on the way to butcher, hide to taxidermist....story should be up soon I would expect....
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Sweet. Rick :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup:
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Good job on the bear. Can't wait for photos!
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So a little story…
First I would like to apologize that I don’t have any pictures yet. I also don’t have any great pictures because I did not bring a camera with me when I harvested the bear. The pictures I do have and hope to post soon where taken after the cavalry arrived and then it was all business.
A little back story
Since the first weekend in April I have been working on my new house; stripping popcorn, demoing walls, generally making a mess. My wife and I have an in house target date for the middle of June. With that schedule I knew that my time hunting this spring would be minimal to say the least.
With that being said I took the last two days off work just to work on the house… no hunting. My wonderful wife said that since I took off work I don’t need to waste my time hunting. I needed to be productive.
The story
Well last night after putting in long nights all last weekend and most of the days this week I said, “hey honey lets go for a hike” aka bear hunting. She shot me down about as fast at the words came out of my mouth… typical. So running late I had to stop by ACE and the house to get things together so that I could work on the house after my evening hunt.
The whole time I have had the place I haven’t had one neighbor stop in to say hi, no welcome to the neighborhood etc. Last night that changed. I had a nice elderly lady stop in to welcome me to the neighborhood and asked if she would snoop around the place. I was grateful to have someone finally show interest in their new neighbors plus I got to show all the things we are doing with the place.
After all the looking and bsing I was running another 30 min behind and I didn’t leave Woolley until 6.
Even though I was running late I wanted to stick to my plan of hitting a spot Saylean and I looked over last time I had this tag.
I got through the gate, drove to a predetermined spot, dumped the truck and slowly hunted through stands of trees that are just about the right age. Its early in the season and I didn’t see any fresh peels, no scat, no real sign of bears. I worked my way into a clearing with ankle high grass and caught a couple elk out in the open. I hunkered down so as not to spook them and watched a herd of about 20 feed 45 to 80 yards from me. Eventually an old cow got down wind of me and pushed the herd out of sight. With the elk busting me but not barking I decided to head up farther. But just before I hit the timber again I caught elk out of the corner of my eye. They didn’t bust. The cow pushed them just out of sight but they turned and were working their way back.
I again hunker down. It was getting to be the right time of the evening. Critters were stirring. Within 10 or so minutes I hear something rustling in the brush… Just by the sound I knew I was at least going to see black. As the bear came into view it laid down. With a dead tree in the way all I could see was its head. It was a good bear. Immediately, I knew I wanted to take him I just had to be patient.
The wait seemed to drag on forever but was probably no more the 10 minutes. But with all the bloodsuckers swirling my head it took all my strength not to start swiping them by the handful.
The bear got up and started to feed toward me. As he did he cleared all the brush and branches between him and I giving me a clear window. Now, all I had to do was wait for the shot to present itself. Meanwhile the elk herd either smelt me again or spotted the bear. A cow started barking and it was make or break time.
This whole time while the bear was walking toward me I kept the cross hairs on him. When the cow barked the bear was almost dead on straight on me. I didn’t want the bear to skedaddle so I settled the cross hairs center of chest and squeezed. The bear spun on a dime and nailed the trail it came in on. Within seconds I hear the death bawl.
I can’t believe he went 40 yards. The bullet clipped one lung and took out his heart.
To be continued. Im working on an hour sleep.
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Great story, awesome looking bear! :tup:
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Congrats! Looks like a good Hide. :tup:
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:tup: :tup: :tup: Good work man!!! Beautiful animal you have there.
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:tup: :tup: :tup: Good work man!!! Beautiful animal you have there.
:tup:
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Congrats. I took the same shot last year. Dead on, center of chest right at the bottom of the neck. Dropped straight down and never moved.
Nice looking bear.
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Well done! Congrats on a good looking bear! Cool story as well
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:tup:
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Great Bear, Very cool, Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome!
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Nice looking animal! Way to get the job done!! :tup:
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Congrats, nice looking bear.
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Great story, just when you least expect it . . . . . expect it. :tup:
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Nice Job!
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Super Nice Bear thanks for sharing the hunt
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Looks like a great bear, congrats... :tup:
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Way to go!
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Thanks guys. It was a fun hunt and a short season. Saylean brought the skull and hide to the taxidermist for me today and hopefully I can get the meat to the butcher tomorrow.
The taxi estimated the bear to be 5 or 6 years old. He was around 5'1" or so and has a 17" skull.
I didn't get to finish my story but the short of the long is...
The bear was located in an area i couldn't work on him very well myself so I waited for a couple buddies to show up to help. Unfortunately it took them a couple hrs to show up. We got the bear back to the road, de-boned and skinned in fairly quick order but we didn't get back to the gate until almost 5 am.
It was a long night but a great experience. I hope to have some more pictures up early this week.
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congrats. :tup:
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Congrats :tup:
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:tup: :tup:
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nice :tup:
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congrats! nice to have some good friends to help you pack until 5am!
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:tup: Congrats nice bear
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Very nice bear!
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Thought I should throw up a couple more pics. Enjoy.
Good luck guys :tup:
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Congrats on a nice bear :tup:.. I'll be up there this weekend
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Fatty bear! Looks pretty heavy for a spring one.
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Dang, that bear is fat! Nice looking melon head!!
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Nice bear brother. Glad you connected and glad to see the other pics up. :tup:
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Nice bear X-Force :tup: Bear are awkwrd to handle on decent ground.....let alone difficult terrain.
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Congrats! Nice bear
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thats a dandy! great story to with it!
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awesome!!
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Nice fatty!!!! Congrats!
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Way to go!!! :tup: :tup: :tup:
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Very nice!! Congrats! :tup:
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Thought I would post these up. The hide is great except for the face and skull looks awesome.
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I like the basic hair on tan............who did yours? Mine was done locally.....
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Your slow X-force!
Rods Taxidermy in Arlington did it.
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