I went up to a new friends camp and did a quick weekend bear hunt and scored with a 225 lb bear. It was a good hunt and only took my 3rd sitting in a remote area only accessabile by ATV before this guys showed this morning around 8:30 am. took him with a .270 at 15 yds. He went about 25 ft, no death moan. Taking my bear wasn't the highlite of the trip the following story is....
BEARS CAN BE UNPREDICTABLE
After our late breakfast Kirk had to go freshen up some baits so me and a non hunter, (non hunter up with his brother hoping to video tape a bear) wanted to tag along. We get to the first bait site and begin to walk in. Kirk has the feed over his shoulder, non hunter is carrying a pale of oil and I am carrying the shotgun incase a bear is at the bait. It has been raining steady now for about an hour. As we get close to the bait site, Kirk lets me take the lead and I walk in and look around no bear in sight. Kirk picks up the barrel, starts banging it around to loosen up the remaining bait in the barrel. I walk around a bit and notice Kirk is having a hard time opening the new bait sack. So I sling my gun over my shoulder and take out my knife, cut open the feed sack. As Kirk is spilling the feed into the barrel and me putting my knife back into its holder I notice non hunter do a quick motion. I look over to see a bear charging in on us, Kirk screams shoot him Frank, shoot him, This bear (not sure where he came from) stopped less than 10 yds from us turned and ran off. I manage to get the gun up and let off two shots in haste just to scare him off. I missed with both shots. I mean they were fired in a quick haste. That was the most fearful thing anyone of us ever experienced. Looking back it is safe to laugh about it but at the time, it was a real scary situation…. The best we can figure is the bear must of heard us hitting the barrel and thought another bear was taking his food and came in to defend his meal. Only when the bear heard shoot him, we think then it realized we were human and turned to run…. We also figured we did not hear the bear on the count of the rain coming down hard at this point…. Fun wow….
Kirk’s brother hunted this bait later on in the evening (sat) and took a 90lb bear. Kirk hunted it Sunday morning and took a 125lb bear…the bear that came into us was roughly 250lbs and still on the loose…
Enjoy the following pics of my bear... Frank
The view
The finish
congrats. I had a bear climb the tree I was hunting in once and scared the crap out of me. And trust me I love to hunt I will hunt everything. But to this day I am in no big hurry to go bear hunting if a buddy calls me up to go with him. It really shook me up. I feel like Goose in top gun. I lost my edge ( only with bears though ) 