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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Kc_Kracker on August 26, 2013, 08:16:24 AM

Title: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: Kc_Kracker on August 26, 2013, 08:16:24 AM: Leave home without my gun.. :bash:

This morning Im headed down the highway and blam right there poking his head out of the treeline is yogi. I will be back there this evening :tup:
Title: Re: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: hntrspud on August 26, 2013, 08:18:14 AM: Lesson learned? I would hope so.
Title: Re: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: Kc_Kracker on August 26, 2013, 08:20:04 AM: i know, time to lock n load every time i leave. man i wish my rifle had a removable mag
Title: Re: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: Blacktail Sniper on August 26, 2013, 08:20:27 AM: :DOH:
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Post by: Elkrunner on August 26, 2013, 08:34:12 AM: That happened to me a few years ago. Went camping with the family..forgot that it was the opener or the bear hunt. I went for a drive to look for deer and right in the road was a nice bear. Looked at us for 5 minutes before it went up the hill
Title: Re: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: Smossy on August 26, 2013, 08:35:08 AM: Quote from: Kc_Kracker on August 26, 2013, 08:16:24 AM
Leave home without my gun.. :bash:

This morning Im headed down the highway and blam right there poking his head out of the treeline is yogi. I will be back there this evening :tup:
Good one! :tup:
Title: Re: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: bankwalker on August 26, 2013, 08:59:48 AM: I did that last year with a bear, 4x3 blacktail and a rag horn bull. "Just going for a quick 3 mile drive to the store be right back" :bash: all different days of course, but all in their open seasons for the weapons I was hunting.
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Post by: sirmissalot on August 26, 2013, 09:41:56 AM: I never leave home without my rifle during an open season. Shooting a bear off the highway would have been interesting though!
Title: Re: Its hunting season, why on earth did I do this?
Post by: Kc_Kracker on August 26, 2013, 10:05:21 AM: i would have waited for him to go back in and took chase. so far i have only had time to make it out once this season :bash:
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Post by: Blacktail Sniper on August 26, 2013, 11:55:10 AM: Well, on a side note, that may have been a good (??) test case for the shooting from or along side the road threads that pop up now & then....

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