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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: aclark on November 20, 2022, 07:41:42 PM

Title: Baker wilderness bear
Post by: aclark on November 20, 2022, 07:41:42 PM: Long time reader I haven’t posted much here but I wanted to share the story of my bear this year, I have scouted this spot for years but never hunted it during September, I had a day off and decided to rip in and chase bears. It started slow and I kept hiking up the ridge I started finding fresh piles of Costco mixed berry pies until I decided I had to climb down the ridge to see into the bowl. As I climbed down I saw this boar angrily chomping berries from bush to bush as if they owed him something, ranged him at 212 and the 270wsm dropped him. The 130 grain copper bullet did a great job, i broke him down and loaded up my pack in 1 hour and in my excitement I didn’t get water while I was near it. I ran out of water 1 mile into my 5 mile packout, it was awful but I will never do that again!
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Post by: highside74 on November 20, 2022, 07:52:12 PM: Great photo and awesome job minus the water part. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: elkrack on November 20, 2022, 07:58:48 PM: Nice work! Running out of water sucks!
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Post by: Alchase on November 20, 2022, 08:05:08 PM: Nice bear!
Running out of water is like you said, something you only do once. It sucks!
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Post by: Birdguy on November 20, 2022, 08:18:50 PM: That is a great looking bear! You'll probably find yourself back in there in September again :tup:
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Post by: RB on November 20, 2022, 09:02:16 PM: Nice Bear!
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Post by: X-Force on November 20, 2022, 09:03:10 PM: Good looking bear
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Post by: D-Rock425 on November 20, 2022, 09:21:15 PM: Nice work.
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Post by: pashok23 on November 20, 2022, 09:40:27 PM: Nice job. I ran out of water once packing out the bear. Now i carry extra much extra lol
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Post by: MeepDog on November 20, 2022, 10:26:28 PM: What was the 130gr copper 270wsm bullet you used? Did you recover it?
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Post by: 85yota on November 20, 2022, 11:32:35 PM: Score! Sounds like lessons learned. But in the grand scheme of things who cares epic bear!
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Post by: redi on November 21, 2022, 05:55:43 AM: Great bear. Congratulations
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Post by: pianoman9701 on November 21, 2022, 08:40:25 AM: Nice bear. I bet you cramped up after that hike.