Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: JPhelps on June 15, 2020, 08:47:35 AM
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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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Great bear, congrats!
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Nice bear. Congrats
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Awesome bear! And a goat tag this year? Cool pics...
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Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!
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sounds like a pretty action packed hunt! What a great bear and beautiful country!
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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. 🐐
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Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!
😂😂😂 I don’t hunt Washington very often. Give me a break
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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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Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!
:chuckle:.
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Nice looking bear.
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Great bear Jason, going in Wednesday for one last trip, hope to see something even half that size!
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Beautiful bear. That’s the exact kinda terrain I want to hunt on my first spring bear tag.
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Beautiful bear and awesome pictures! Sounds like he was hard earned, congrats! :tup:
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Great bear Jason, congrats!
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Awesome bear and country.👍🏻 Hopefully the hunt will be on YouTube?!?!
#Hulkmania!😂
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Great bear, thanks for sharing the pics and story.
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Awesome. Did you get any footage ?
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Wow great bear, congratulations! Thanks for sharing
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Awesome. Did you get any footage ?
We did 👍🏼
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Stud bear, congrats! :tup:
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What a gorgeous bear. Happy freakin' birthday, Jason. :tup:
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And think of all the elk calves that have a little better odds, good job!!!
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Congrats, what a dream bear!
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Nice! You guys are killing it across the board
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Nice bear! That country is steep!!!!
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Great bear! Love the color!
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Nice bear! That country is steep!!!!
And wicked!! I can't wait to get back there, 2 days to go!!
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Hi JPhelps welcome to the forum! Great bear!
Great first post!!
Thanks for sharing!
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That is an absolute stud of a bear! Nice work and thanks for sharing
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Congratulations
Big Bear.!!
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Gorgeous bear.
Amazing *censored*ry.
THANK YOU for sharing.
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Beautiful bear, congrats!
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Congrats on the awesome bear, and the luck in the draws!
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Thanks everyone 👊🏼. Now on to try and do the next draw tag justice 🐐
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Stud bear :tup:
At least you shot it on top of the ridge.. :chuckle:
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Thanks everyone 👊🏼. Now on to try and do the next draw tag justice 🐐
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Goat tag?! What state?
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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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Nice job!
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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
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What a hog! Congratulations!
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Way to go JP! Another fawn killer bites the dust! What unit did you draw?
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I drew one of the avalanche gorge goat tags.
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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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great bear, congrats :tup:
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I drew one of the avalanche gorge goat tags.
Congrats! Best of luck on your goat hunt.
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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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congrats beautiful bear
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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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:tup: great hunt...great bear...congratulations
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Reminds me of this one we tried to get over there two years ago.
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What a bear! Congratulations!
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Sweet bear Jason!