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Post by: Timberstalker on July 31, 2019, 10:46:37 AM
Already out
Probably not as much pressure!!!!
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Post by: jstone on July 31, 2019, 11:46:21 AM
Post by: Pathfinder101 on July 31, 2019, 12:13:18 PM
This guy!
This guy too... He's been counting the days. :tup:
Post by: ghosthunter on July 31, 2019, 12:16:21 PM
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Post by: Wolfdog2314 on July 31, 2019, 12:25:38 PM
Good luck all! Looking forward to seeing some bears on the ground.
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Post by: X-Force on July 31, 2019, 02:47:41 PM
How many of you guys are hitting the hills tomorrow that usually had to wait til the 15th or the 1st of September
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I will be Monday.
Post by: jared p on July 31, 2019, 02:59:13 PM
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Post by: emac on July 31, 2019, 03:15:53 PM
Was just going to ask about meat handling in this heat and what plans were, but that is another thread. Good luck all, Wish I could be out there.Can you start a thread on that as i am interested in people's thoughts.
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Post by: jasnt on July 31, 2019, 03:28:56 PM
Post by: bearpaw on July 31, 2019, 03:58:34 PM
- Find shade to work on your animal
- Quarter or bone out, it will cool quicker
- Quickly load in a vehicle and get to a nearby cooler/freezer
- Do not put warm meat in plastic bags
- Take some sort of refrigeration with you and don't hunt too far from it
- Avoid hunting where it will take too many hours to pack the meat out
- Get the meat in a cool stream to cool if needed and pack out at night/morning when it's cooler
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Post by: jennabug on August 01, 2019, 02:03:53 PM
Got this sow this morning!!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190801/90285a5a1ca1bea08e4e75f4903558f3.jpg)Woohoo! Nice work!
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Post by: trophyhunt on August 01, 2019, 02:07:42 PM
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Post by: Jpmiller on August 01, 2019, 05:02:55 PM
Had a chance at a 100# +/- this morning opted not to shoot. Also seen a kid with a boar in the 125-150# range. His first bear, waiting to see a pic on here, not sure if he's a member or not.
2 bear limit man, shoot it :chuckle:
Post by: JBar on August 01, 2019, 05:58:17 PM
:chuckle: I didnt even think of that! :bash:Had a chance at a 100# +/- this morning opted not to shoot. Also seen a kid with a boar in the 125-150# range. His first bear, waiting to see a pic on here, not sure if he's a member or not.
2 bear limit man, shoot it :chuckle:
Post by: Windwalker on August 01, 2019, 09:27:36 PM
Got this sow this morning!!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190801/90285a5a1ca1bea08e4e75f4903558f3.jpg)
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Awesome! Nice one.
Heard a shot late afternoon. Waiting to see who else got one.
Post by: StuckoYota99 on August 01, 2019, 09:46:07 PM
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Post by: vandeman17 on August 02, 2019, 11:15:18 AM
Shot a real good one this morning. He lit out 100mph straight into an absolute hellhole. Cant find him, nor even a drop of blood. I had to have gotten him. Impossible to miss shot. This is the crap im trying to find him in. Wish me luck.
If you can't find him today, i would be willing to buzz up there tomorrow morning and help look
Post by: BreezyBear on August 02, 2019, 11:19:04 AM
Post by: cougforester on August 02, 2019, 11:34:55 AM
Shot a real good one this morning. He lit out 100mph straight into an absolute hellhole. Cant find him, nor even a drop of blood. I had to have gotten him. Impossible to miss shot. This is the crap im trying to find him in. Wish me luck.
Yikes. Good luck!
Post by: MHWASH on August 02, 2019, 11:43:55 AM
Post by: ASienkiewich on August 02, 2019, 12:10:04 PM
Shot a real good one this morning. He lit out 100mph straight into an absolute hellhole. Cant find him, nor even a drop of blood. I had to have gotten him. Impossible to miss shot. This is the crap im trying to find him in. Wish me luck.I do wish you the best of luck sir! Hope you can find him! On a side note I always look thoroughly at these photos hoping I see the bear under a log or something LOL 😂
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Post by: Whitenuckles on August 02, 2019, 03:01:59 PM
Sorry this happened, if WA would make blood tracking dogs legal I could take one of my hounds and we would probably find your bear. Try to run a grid pattern in your search and go further than you think the bear would go. Good luck!:yeah:
Cant tell you how many times my dog has saved the day!
Post by: flyfishWA on August 02, 2019, 03:49:58 PM
Shot a real good one this morning. He lit out 100mph straight into an absolute hellhole. Cant find him, nor even a drop of blood. I had to have gotten him. Impossible to miss shot. This is the crap im trying to find him in. Wish me luck.that sucks, I shot a bear last night at 8 yards that I called in and dropped the bear in its tracks. I would have had to track it through an old clearcut that was almost as thick as that it I hadn't dropped it. I just feel lucky.
Post by: StuckoYota99 on August 02, 2019, 03:52:57 PM
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Post by: fowl smacker on August 03, 2019, 07:05:27 PM
I never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
Post by: 10thmountainarcher on August 03, 2019, 07:10:01 PM
I never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
You can shoot two bears a year now...
Post by: Tbar on August 03, 2019, 07:24:24 PM
It's happened to all who have hunted for any amount of time. No reason to kick a guy when he's down. I would be comfortable with knowing I gave it my all top try to recover the animal. Best of luck this season Bango!I never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
Post by: grundy53 on August 03, 2019, 07:51:51 PM
AgreedIt's happened to all who have hunted for any amount of time. No reason to kick a guy when he's down. I would be comfortable with knowing I gave it my all top try to recover the animal. Best of luck this season Bango!I never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
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Post by: Bango skank on August 03, 2019, 07:52:36 PM
yupI never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
Post by: KFhunter on August 03, 2019, 08:45:02 PM
I have full faith and confidence that bango gave it all he could in finding that bear, as good as anyone on this forum, and I wish him luck in anchoring his next bear!
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Post by: teanawayslayer on August 03, 2019, 08:50:51 PM
:yeah:
I have full faith and confidence that bango gave it all he could in finding that bear, as good as anyone on this forum, and I wish him luck in anchoring his next bear!
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Post by: Tbar on August 03, 2019, 09:38:34 PM
Or 2! :tup:
I have full faith and confidence that bango gave it all he could in finding that bear, as good as anyone on this forum, and I wish him luck in anchoring his next bear!
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Post by: pd on August 03, 2019, 10:12:29 PM
Or 2! :tup:
I have full faith and confidence that bango gave it all he could in finding that bear, as good as anyone on this forum, and I wish him luck in anchoring his next bear!
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Three. Bango is the real deal.
By the way, does FoxPro have a "constipated basset hound" setting?
Post by: MHWASH on August 04, 2019, 07:31:09 AM
I never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
Same thing happened to me this spring. I hunted the rest of the weekend, came back the following weekend, still couldn’t find the bear, so maybe he didn’t die. Until you find the animal you never know. I’ll be hunting this fall with the same unpunched tag.
Post by: h20hunter on August 04, 2019, 07:35:07 AM
I never found my bear. Hes dead there somewhere. I went back today, laid down to take a nap where i shot him before the search. Woke up to the sound of some knucklehead blasting some awful sounding ecaller at 1000 decibels maybe a couple hundred yards up from the hellhole the bear ran into. Dont know what the sound was, constipated basset hound maybe. Decided messing around in that brushy mess with some dude with a rifle above me was probably a bad idea. Meat is spoiled by now anyways, not worth risking getting shot over to keep looking. Ill be back hunting tuesday morning.So you shot a bear, certain it died, never found it, so you're going to shoot another one?
As echoed already...for sure then one more.
Post by: Ghost Hunter on August 04, 2019, 08:25:40 AM
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