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Title: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on August 31, 2023, 07:29:00 PM: Friend was bear hunting on his own property---- About 600 acres--- right around the first week of the season a few weeks ago.
He spots a big bear and takes a fairly long shot---he has made 700 yd one shot kills on elk...seen it on video. The bear seemed like it may have been hit so he watched where it went into a timbered hillside a few hundred yards away and just watched. About 35 minutes later a helicopter comes over the mountain and goes to the lake and turns around and heads straight to the hunter...This is 7 o'clock at night..The helicopter hovers directly over the hunter long enough that the hunter finally waves his arms at the 'copter signally...What the F,,, You Doing. At that point the helicopter flies to the exact place the bear ran into the treed hillside and started a search flying pattern...THIS IS 7 O"CLOCK AT NIGHT. This is the copter that has been flying around this part of Stevens County this summer. the one with the long antennae coming out the front..Some say they heard were doing a survey other say they were looking for water??

What is going on folks.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: Taco280AI on August 31, 2023, 07:31:07 PM: So did he find the bear?
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on August 31, 2023, 07:32:23 PM: No
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: hunter399 on August 31, 2023, 07:35:36 PM: I have seen the chopper you speak of.
Was it blue and white .
I'm not sure what they are doing. At one point I thought that antenna thing,was some kind of sprayer.
But if it is the same chopper,not sure what they are doing .
If it is the same one. They was landing and taking off about three weeks by my house.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: Born2late on August 31, 2023, 07:36:08 PM: Was it a military helicopter? My cousin works on them and I know they fly around at night quite often.maybe some guys checking out stuff with the thermal. Maybe possible
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on August 31, 2023, 07:39:04 PM: Not a military . I'll have to ask him the actual color....looked F&W to him ??
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: nwwanderer on August 31, 2023, 07:41:32 PM: N6122? USGS if so
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: hunter399 on August 31, 2023, 07:44:58 PM: Even though I'm on the other side of the mountain from ya.
Miles are just minutes,when it's a helicopter.
I haven't seen it since maybe the first week of August.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: highcountry_hunter on August 31, 2023, 07:48:16 PM: When you say antenna, is it like a stinger than comes straight off the front of the cab, from kinda under where the pilot would sit?

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Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: jrebel on August 31, 2023, 07:49:12 PM: https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/usgs-media-alert-low-level-flights-image-3d-geology-northeastern-washington

I have seen it twice now. We were bear hunting and it flew over right at dusk a few times. May have been the same day as I heard a gunshot that night just across the valley. Saw it earlier this summer as well. My question would be, if they are doing what the article says…..why are they flying the same area multiple times. Would appear that is a waste of time and fuel. :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: jrebel on August 31, 2023, 07:51:44 PM: August 9th was the day it was flying.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: jrebel on August 31, 2023, 07:52:14 PM: Quote from: highcountry_hunter on August 31, 2023, 07:48:16 PM
When you say antenna, is it like a stinger than comes straight off the front of the cab, from kinda under where the pilot would sit?

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Yes
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: hunter399 on August 31, 2023, 07:52:55 PM: Quote from: highcountry_hunter on August 31, 2023, 07:48:16 PM
When you say antenna, is it like a stinger than comes straight off the front of the cab, from kinda under where the pilot would sit?

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Ya looks like a probe 😂.
Just sticks straight out from the middle under the cab.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: jrebel on August 31, 2023, 07:54:59 PM: Looked exactly like this one. Could not read the identifier….pic is from the web.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: highcountry_hunter on August 31, 2023, 07:55:34 PM: That thing was going back and forth over us on boulder creek on memorial weekend. All friggin weekend it was going like from Curlew to kettle

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Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: hunter399 on August 31, 2023, 07:56:36 PM: Quote from: jrebel on August 31, 2023, 07:49:12 PM
https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/usgs-media-alert-low-level-flights-image-3d-geology-northeastern-washington

I have seen it twice now. We were bear hunting and it flew over right at dusk a few times. May have been the same day as I heard a gunshot that night just across the valley. Saw it earlier this summer as well. My question would be, if they are doing what the article says…..why are they flying the same area multiple times. Would appear that is a waste of time and fuel. :dunno: :dunno:

That makes sense .
Cause they was flying around all over ,pretty freaking low.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: dreadi on August 31, 2023, 09:37:55 PM: I hate it when helicopters fly over when I’m bear hunting.

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Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on September 01, 2023, 04:03:13 AM: Do your helicopters stop and hover low right over your head and then "track" the bear you shot at? Ya, I'd hate that to.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: Birdguy on September 01, 2023, 10:26:46 PM: Same helicopter was over our place in Okanogan last summer. We are on the east side of the valley, it flew over us all the way across the valley into the Cascades and then 45 minutes later would fly back and do the same flight again just a few hundred feet south each time. It did not stop just kept doing it, did it for a couple days then it clouded up until we left. We heard at the time it was surveying for water and minerals and ??? Lots of folks up there were not impressed.
Title: Re: Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting
Post by: ducks4days on September 02, 2023, 05:36:53 AM: Maybe it’s the national guard doing training missions for air supply / evacuation?