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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on September 17, 2009, 08:24:50 PM

Title: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 17, 2009, 08:24:50 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Fb1.jpg&hash=3b821c0d68b72c4867091dd37d54f309e023598f).
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: Skinner on September 17, 2009, 08:34:12 PM: Dont know that I could have done it unless i just had the camera in hand! Nice pics cant imagine eating elderberries (sp?)
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: actionshooter on September 17, 2009, 09:27:32 PM: cute little guy :chuckle:
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Post by: Ray on September 17, 2009, 09:28:36 PM: Good choice.Good photos
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: littlebuf on September 17, 2009, 09:42:23 PM: hides are lookin good over, thats a good thing since i leave in the morning for my bear trip
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 18, 2009, 05:46:12 AM: His hide did look nice. It was 95 degrees when I took these. I think he might have been warm, I know I was. :)
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: runamuk on September 18, 2009, 07:44:40 AM: What a cutie......nice pics

I have seen a number of people picking elderberries on the side of the road elderberry wine ;)
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: Machias on September 18, 2009, 08:40:32 AM: Great photos!!
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 18, 2009, 08:50:59 AM: I was always told that they had to freeze before a bear would eat them. I wonder if thats an old timers tale.(something to do with crapping themselves to death) This guy certainly wasn't waiting, though he didn't feed on them much. He was sure on the search for food. I have a couple more pics of him I'll add as he worked that bush...what he was doing when I heard and stalked him. Mostly you can't see him though or tell what he was, so I didn't post them. I ended up following him for over a mile mostly at about 30 yards or less, trying to geta pic of him. Funny critter. The ones where he is looking at me are where I blew on the bearman ric call. Made him at least gander LOL
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: mossback91 on September 18, 2009, 08:55:45 AM: Man the bears tear them elderberrys up in the late fall from what Ive seen before :dunno: grouse tear em up all the time........

I think iceman tears into them things for pie too
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 18, 2009, 09:00:27 AM: I've seen his pies, looked awesome. I was told that the freeze did something to the chemical in them so that they didn't make you crap to death. They are like a living laxitive. I wouldn't want to be around Ice after one of them pies . :chuckle: I've also been told by old timers its part of th ebears routine right before hibernation. Supposedly they eat them, purge their system then eat grass to form a plug. Backyard oldtimer biology. Not sure on any of it. Most of what those guys say turns out to be true, but every once in awhile they throw a doozie in there.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: Idabooner on September 18, 2009, 11:05:27 AM: The ones I ate must not have been frozen yet. I had left the boat before first light with a peanut butter sandwich tucked in the back of my shirt (I never packed all the gear most do nowdays) While I was eating that sandwich at noon I spotted a nice billy goat high above me and on the other side of a very deep, steep canyon near the top of Pyramid Peek. It was after sun down when I got to and shot him, he dropped, kicked once and slid off the cliff disappearing. I laid out that night, it was after noon the next day after climbing the at least 1000 yard slide shoot a couple times tracking where he had been airborn most of the time. It was near dark by the time I carried him down the steep rocky Pyramid creek, I was getting very hungry and weak having burned a lot of energy for one sandwich in the last 36 hours. I come across an elderberry bush, I knew not to eat much but one small handful won't hurt, WRONG, in less than 10 minuets I thought I would s--t myself to death, it's a good thing there was only 1/2 mile to go to where Boneaddict and his mother waited to pick me up even though I was 24 hours late.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: littletoes on September 19, 2009, 03:17:39 PM: I've eaten 'em, but never notice the problems you guys had had.... :chuckle: course, it was always late in the year.

Couple of ladies around here make preserves out of them too.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: Alchase on September 21, 2009, 08:25:40 AM: Quote from: Idabooner on September 18, 2009, 11:05:27 AM
I thought I would s--t myself to death, it's a good thing there was only 1/2 mile to go to where Boneaddict and his mother waited to pick me up even though I was 24 hours late.

See now wouldn't that be a good addition to your book?
LOL

Thanks for the story, that is some seriously tough and steep country.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 01:24:51 PM: That story would certainly be a highlite of the book. I'm not sure how many times I have heard the original uncut version, but its one I often ask for time and again. It was pretty hardcore.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 01:28:23 PM: Here is one that could have been deflated pretty easy......Not quite blonde enough or big enough.
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 01:53:20 PM: A bear in the bush. Little bigger.
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 01:56:24 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Ffacee2.jpg&hash=e892ea5adc4b1ec8457b288093897854e7a05119).
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 01:57:06 PM: I figured this one was a boar, though I didn't do any skirt lifting. There are a couple more pics of him in teh sasquatch thread
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: saylean on September 22, 2009, 01:59:33 PM: great pics as always.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 02:10:03 PM: Thanks Saylean

This is the next morning after failing a 4 hour attempt on the big herd bull of the area. I was pretty bummed for my failure, but then some action.
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: saylean on September 22, 2009, 02:16:17 PM: that first broadside pic of the bear on this 2nd page looks dang near the double to the one I missed with my bow, although I am sure it aint. ;)

You sure run into the critters.
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2009, 02:18:47 PM: That last bear isn't anything special, but I'd still let him have it with my longbow!!!

Nice pics Doug!
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 04:17:23 PM: my thoughts exactly, but then something happened.
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 04:21:13 PM: I thought to myself this was one that could have died without anyone knowing there was a cub, as again, this is about as big as a sow gets in Washington.
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 04:21:46 PM: by the way, I left this one alone. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 04:24:38 PM: sure an ugly cub......
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2009, 04:29:45 PM: Here is the feature of pucker.....
the rest will be in that thread I think.....http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,34212.0.html (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,34212.0.html)
note the right side of the image.
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Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: actionshooter on September 22, 2009, 05:57:27 PM: I wouldn't tell mamma he was ugly ;)
Title: Re: Let him go to grow
Post by: 180-GRAIN on September 27, 2009, 04:41:35 PM: I really like the color of that one even though he was smaller I would have had a hard time not taking him. Great pictures hopefully you see that one again next year.