Post by: saylean on August 23, 2010, 09:06:48 PM
Getting closer... ;)
I also saw 4 quail on the west side....i hardly ever seem them over here!
Post by: Titan-1 on August 24, 2010, 02:30:17 PM
Post by: Kain on August 24, 2010, 03:21:19 PM
Good luck with the bear. Are you filming the hunts?
Post by: runamuk on August 24, 2010, 07:38:48 PM
can't wait to hear you got one down......
Post by: saylean on August 24, 2010, 09:08:38 PM
I saw a few quail once on this side but just thought it must be some domestic releases. :dunno: Its was near my dads house in Brush Prairie.
Good luck with the bear. Are you filming the hunts?
Not filming professionally. If I get the chance, I film with my little pocket camera...I need to step it up a notch and get a decent camera to film with.
Post by: saylean on August 29, 2010, 09:58:50 AM
Looking down the power line cut, I didnt see much, but it was near dusk and I was telling myself, "There is no way a bear isnt down there."
So I hop up on a stump for a better view....sure as shootin, a bear 100 yards away or so, eating away. I had my bow and it was getting dark, so I called to him for a bit...didnt even care I was screaming. Just kept feeding away.
So I decided I better try to do a stalk, as light was fading...
I get withing about 50 yards, but he had worked his way to the opposite side of a horseshoe shaped black berry bush...by now, it was too dark to really push it, so I backed out.
I'll be back soon. ;P If I had a rifle, he'd been summer sausage.
Post by: saylean on August 29, 2010, 09:53:42 PM
I got in there a bit earlier today...glassed the area from the same spot as last night...wasnt glassing more than a minute and there he was, crossing an opening...then I lost him. I booked it down to where I could try to catch him.
I went about 40 yards into the cut and couldnt see or hear him. I climbed up a bit to get a better view....there he was, 52 yards infront of me, eating black berries at the tree line.
I was hoping he would come back out into the openings but he went into the thicker brush and parrelled the tree line. I was able to hear him about an hour later and I caught another glimpse of him about 100 yards away pulling down the black berries. I went back and repositioned, hoping to try to cut him off...I think I made too much noise. I didnt see him again.
His time is short. I wish I was using a gun, but I really want to stick it out with the bow. Here is a crappy video I took. Sorry for the lack of coolness in the vid.
Washington Black Bear (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgctzm74NF8#)
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 29, 2010, 09:57:15 PM
Post by: woodman on August 29, 2010, 09:57:49 PM
Post by: ML_Hunter on August 30, 2010, 12:44:03 AM
Have you tried using a rodent in distress call when he got close? I may narrow the distance just a bit, and you can attach one of the primos squealer to your bow so you can call wile at full draw...however that would be a long time at full draw :chuckle:
Post by: saylean on August 30, 2010, 10:12:36 AM
if that was taken from the video on your cell phone, I want to know what phone you have :chuckle:.
Have you tried using a rodent in distress call when he got close? I may narrow the distance just a bit, and you can attach one of the primos squealer to your bow so you can call wile at full draw...however that would be a long time at full draw :chuckle:
He doesnt seem to care about any of the calls I have thrown at him. Just keeps eating black berries. I tried to coax him the first time I saw him and then this last time. Barely even raised his head. Both times, it was rabbit distress.
I might try calf elk (lonely) sounds this next time.
Post by: Huntboy on August 30, 2010, 10:43:00 AM
Post by: Idabooner on August 30, 2010, 12:15:56 PM
Post by: saylean on August 30, 2010, 12:33:17 PM
Stay with him buddy, he will come when he's ready, persistence!
I just hope I get to him before someone else does... ;)
Must resist the urge to take the .30 30 lever action....~!
Post by: Alchase on August 30, 2010, 01:36:44 PM
Cool post!
Post by: saylean on September 03, 2010, 09:20:49 PM
Perhaps, I will just let him fatten up for a few weeks... :'(