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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: buglebuster on August 23, 2014, 08:55:40 PM

Title: 1st encounter!
Post by: buglebuster on August 23, 2014, 08:55:40 PM: Hit the trail at daylight presently greeted with a heard of elk including 1 6x6, and loads of huckleberries! Hiked into an area I picked on Google Earth and immediately spotted some goats, set up the spotter and got a few pics. Always neat to see them! Hiked off the trail a bit and started glassing. Had been glassing for about 45 min when I decided to take a break and just look around. Scanned the big alpine meadow below me when I noticed something peculiar off in the distance in the next meadow out. Through up the binos and it wad a big chocolate bear! My heart immediately started racing! I watched him a second and he disappeared behind some trees, I expected him to continue the way he was going since he was on a good pace. I figured he would pop up onto a berry filled hillside so I started my stalk. I circled up around and the wind was perfect, but he was nowhere to be found! That's how hunting goes! But man was it exciting! On the way out I heard 2 shots coming from the direction another hunter I talked to in the parking lot headed, hopefully he connected!
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Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: jason stevens on August 23, 2014, 09:02:38 PM: Sounds like a great day bud.
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: Jrod79 on August 23, 2014, 09:03:50 PM: Sounds like a good day!
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: RadSav on August 23, 2014, 09:16:53 PM: What a beautiful spot! Nice to see some berries getting ripe up high. You make it above 5,000'? If so were the berries ripe there too?
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: jackelope on August 23, 2014, 09:35:59 PM: I was in ripe berries above 5k last weekend.
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: RadSav on August 23, 2014, 10:13:18 PM: Last Monday I was at two of my spots around 5K and only about 5% of the berries were ripe. Dropped to 4K and nearly 80% were ripe. Although my south facing slope spots are starting to get a bit over grown so maybe that is why :dunno: Heard three bear, but with visibility less than 100' I never saw anything. Did try to get in front of one and was looking good until I slipped and fell. Last time I heard him he was probably at 4K and still descending :chuckle: Dang those wet berry bushes are slick when a fat out of shape idiot steps on them wrong!
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: buglebuster on August 23, 2014, 10:47:53 PM: There were berries from trail head up to 6k.. not as many berry bushes that high, but what was there was ripe.
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: LittleHunter on August 24, 2014, 04:20:54 PM: Looks like a really cool area. Sounds like your having better luck then i am. I havent seen a bear once this year not even on any of my trail cams and i put them out in June.
Title: Re: 1st encounter!
Post by: Houndhunter on August 24, 2014, 05:32:44 PM: Nice pics :tup: