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Title: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 08:47:35 AM
After 8 years of putting in I finally drew a tag!!! (even though Covid tried to screw it all up).

I went over for 5 days early (May 11-15) and we saw 16 bears. Only one of them was a for sure shooter but he was jet black, we still made a play on him and fortunately for me he never showed back up.

We headed back over on June 4th to hopefully catch the rut right and start to pick up some bigger more mature boars. 23 bears into this trip we finally located the bear I was after locked down on a sow. After 10 seconds in the spotter we confirmed he was everything I wanted. Big, brown, Boar. It took us about 1:45 to hike and climb around to where he was. We descended into his basin hoping he was still there and setup. It wasn’t 15 minutes into sitting down that we spotted the blonde sow and he was right behind. I dialed the scope for 3MOA (300 yards) and the 338 edge did the rest.

The pack out wasn’t that awesome but I guess it could have been worse. We could have been in the bottom instead of halfway in the bottom. 😉


He squared out at 6’-3” and has a skull just shy of 19”.  Now I can’t wait to wait another 10+ years to draw again.


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Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: ShaneTyTrey on June 15, 2020, 08:58:27 AM
Great bear, congrats!
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Post by: redi on June 15, 2020, 08:59:02 AM
Nice bear. Congrats
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Post by: mp.hunter on June 15, 2020, 08:59:03 AM
Awesome bear! And a goat tag this year? Cool pics...


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Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: Karl Blanchard on June 15, 2020, 09:09:03 AM
Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!
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Post by: Tschaefer72 on June 15, 2020, 09:14:58 AM
sounds like a pretty action packed hunt! What a great bear and beautiful country!
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Post by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 09:15:37 AM
Awesome bear! And a goat tag this year? Cool pics...


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I haven’t drawn anything in this state for 14 years and got lucky twice in 2020. 🐐
Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 09:16:55 AM
Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!

😂😂😂 I don’t hunt Washington very often. Give me a break
Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: Karl Blanchard on June 15, 2020, 09:18:27 AM
Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!

😂😂😂 I don’t hunt Washington very often. Give me a break
  :chuckle: I'm proud of you buddy. You followed rule number 1 and it paid off!
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Post by: D-Rock425 on June 15, 2020, 09:30:48 AM
Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!
:chuckle:.
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Post by: D-Rock425 on June 15, 2020, 09:31:18 AM
Nice looking bear.
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Post by: trophyhunt on June 15, 2020, 09:31:27 AM
Great bear Jason, going in Wednesday for one last trip, hope to see something even half that size!
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Post by: dilleytech on June 15, 2020, 09:33:12 AM
Beautiful bear. That’s the exact kinda terrain I want to hunt on my first spring bear tag.
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Post by: kellama2001 on June 15, 2020, 09:33:21 AM
Beautiful bear and awesome pictures! Sounds like he was hard earned, congrats!  :tup:
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Post by: Limhangerslayer on June 15, 2020, 09:47:48 AM
Great bear Jason, congrats!
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Post by: elkrack on June 15, 2020, 10:00:14 AM
Awesome bear and country.👍🏻 Hopefully the hunt will be on YouTube?!?!

#Hulkmania!😂
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Post by: Rainier10 on June 15, 2020, 10:05:38 AM
Great bear, thanks for sharing the pics and story.
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Post by: dr.derek on June 15, 2020, 10:24:09 AM
Awesome. Did you get any footage ?
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Post by: Sutherland on June 15, 2020, 10:27:05 AM
Wow great bear, congratulations! Thanks for sharing
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Post by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 10:49:53 AM
Awesome. Did you get any footage ?

We did 👍🏼
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Post by: BreezyBear on June 15, 2020, 11:09:29 AM
Stud bear, congrats!  :tup:
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Post by: pianoman9701 on June 15, 2020, 11:13:23 AM
What a gorgeous bear. Happy freakin' birthday, Jason.  :tup:
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Post by: nwwanderer on June 15, 2020, 12:06:57 PM
And think of all the elk calves that have a little better odds, good job!!!
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on June 15, 2020, 12:11:19 PM
Congrats, what a dream bear!
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Post by: mburrows on June 15, 2020, 12:13:30 PM
Nice! You guys are killing it across the board
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Post by: Wanttohuntmore on June 15, 2020, 12:25:03 PM
Nice bear!  That country is steep!!!!
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Post by: teanawayslayer on June 15, 2020, 12:26:04 PM
Great bear! Love the color!
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Post by: trophyhunt on June 15, 2020, 12:26:58 PM
Nice bear!  That country is steep!!!!
And wicked!!  I can't wait to get back there, 2 days to go!! 
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Post by: jackelope on June 15, 2020, 01:37:15 PM
Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!

Great first post!!
Thanks for sharing!

:chuckle:
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Post by: ganghis on June 15, 2020, 01:58:14 PM
That is an absolute stud of a bear!  Nice work and thanks for sharing
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Post by: jstone on June 15, 2020, 02:02:19 PM
Congratulations
Big Bear.!!
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Post by: Dan-o on June 15, 2020, 02:05:04 PM
Gorgeous bear.

Amazing *censored*ry.

THANK YOU for sharing.
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Post by: Harbor_hunter on June 15, 2020, 02:09:44 PM
Beautiful bear, congrats!
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Post by: shmacker on June 15, 2020, 03:27:12 PM
Congrats on the awesome bear, and the luck in the draws!
Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 04:52:00 PM
Thanks everyone 👊🏼. Now on to try and do the next draw tag justice 🐐


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Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: fishngamereaper on June 15, 2020, 04:59:40 PM
Stud bear :tup:

At least you shot it on top of the ridge.. :chuckle:
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Post by: elkrack on June 15, 2020, 06:07:34 PM
Thanks everyone 👊🏼. Now on to try and do the next draw tag justice 🐐

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Goat tag?! What state?
Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 06:30:55 PM
Thanks everyone 👊🏼. Now on to try and do the next draw tag justice 🐐

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Goat tag?! What state?

Washington
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Post by: Turkeyman on June 15, 2020, 07:00:04 PM
Nice job!
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Post by: elkrack on June 15, 2020, 07:30:57 PM
Thanks everyone 👊🏼. Now on to try and do the next draw tag justice 🐐

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Goat tag?! What state?

Washington


You dog! Which unit
Title: Re: Dream Blues Bear
Post by: mountainman on June 15, 2020, 09:40:47 PM
What a hog! Congratulations!
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Post by: Utah on June 15, 2020, 11:13:57 PM
Way to go JP!  Another fawn killer bites the dust!   What unit did you draw?   
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Post by: JPhelps on June 16, 2020, 07:37:48 AM
I drew one of the avalanche gorge goat tags.
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Post by: Sandberm on June 16, 2020, 07:46:49 AM
Thats a really impressive bear. Looks, and reads, like you and your buddies had a great hunt. Really nice pics too btw. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: bearpaw on June 16, 2020, 08:40:09 AM
great bear, congrats  :tup:
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Post by: hunterednate on June 17, 2020, 09:24:10 AM
I drew one of the avalanche gorge goat tags.

Congrats! Best of luck on your goat hunt.
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Post by: WoodHacker on July 01, 2020, 10:13:34 AM
Very nice bear!  I've seen a couple of bears in the Blues but haven't seen a black one yet.
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Post by: wheels on July 02, 2020, 04:59:58 PM
congrats beautiful bear
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Post by: trophyhunt on July 02, 2020, 05:22:50 PM
Very nice bear!  I've seen a couple of bears in the Blues but haven't seen a black one yet.
seen a few but most are brown, did see my second biggest bear this year and it was black.
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Post by: CaNINE on July 03, 2020, 05:34:08 AM
 :tup:  great hunt...great bear...congratulations
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on July 03, 2020, 07:40:43 AM
Reminds me of this one we tried to get over there two years ago.

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Post by: DG11 on July 13, 2020, 11:04:08 AM
What a bear! Congratulations!
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Post by: Eli346 on July 16, 2020, 08:15:39 PM
Sweet bear Jason!
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