Popular Post icehole10 Posted September 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) Friday was a great day for bear hunting, the weather was cool, over cast with very light winds. I sent a text to Boar on Thursday stating "tomorrows the night, I can feel it". Got out of work at noon and was on the road by 12:30, my normal 2h20m drive to the cabin took me just a hair over 2 hours. I grab a couple of baits, grabbed all of my hunting garb, and hit the trail. I wanted to look at a couple of different sites, the first was hit good, but has been so sporadic that I thought I should check the one I've been sitting on all season. Its about a 15 min drive between the two and I figured if it was not hit, I would cruise back to the first one. I walked in and the bait was gone, I dumped a bait, sprayed a little scent in the air, and decided I was going to sit on that one, I snuck back out to my truck, put on my camo, and grabbed my stuff. I was just about back to the bait when something caught my eye. I looked over at the bait and there was a bear already on it. Well he didn't stick around very long, by the time I even realized what was going on he was gone. I quietly snuck up in my stand, and figured he wasn't coming back. I pondered climbing down and heading to the first page that checked, when I heard a branch snap, I look and here he is coming right back in. I waited for him to get a good look at him and pulled the trigger, I wasn't in the stand more than 5 minutes total. What a rush! not a monster, but a decent bear. I was sure he was sure he was down, but didn't hear the "death moan" as I have on others, so I snuck out to the truck, and drove back to the cabin to grab a couple of things I hoped I would be needing. I waited roughly an hour, and headed back. it was now about 6:30. I park, grab a few things, start back into the bait page, not expecting there to be a bear around, I was walking in looking around, and got to just where you can start to see the bait, and wouldn't you know it, there is another bear on the bait, of course he bolted as soon as we see each other. Now my mind is spinning, thinking maybe I missed, and he came back in after I left. I walk up to where the first bear was standing when I shot, and started looking around, found blood after a minute and started tracking. Maybe went 60 yards, looked up and there he was. Now the work begins, I grabbed my phone to let my wife know that I had found him, and see a text from Boar, all it said was "SCORE". I sent one back, saying "me to , just found mine". I am all be myself, and of course he didn't run toward the trail, he ran directly away from it. Luckily my wife and two boys got an early start, and were almost to where I was hunting. I was trying to position him to get a couple of pictures of him before we drag him out of there, when I hear what I assume was another bear crashing through the woods, didn't get a real great look at it, but it was black and was not a deer. They followed the trail tape that I had put up so I didn't get turned around right to me, and proceed to tell me there was a bear on the bait when they walked in, I told them that I already knew that because he ran by me at about 15 yards though the brush. After a couple of high fives, another bear hunt was in the books!! Edited September 21, 2015 by icehole10 Port.Winterhawk, Satchmo, eyeguy 54 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurfy Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS......... you guys are making me jealous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 awesome story thanks for sharing and what a cool deal to spend the celebration with the family!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBo Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Nice. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boar Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 So cool john, way to go!! congratulations. awsome story! Thats an awsome first picture your boys! Nice job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkhinrichs Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 nice bear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindellProStaf Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Very nice bear. Fun story too. Talk about a lot of activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
certified jumbo Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satchmo Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Congratulation icehole. Sounds like you had a dang herd runnin' thru there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkbait Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 AWESOME. Seeing all these pics of bears is giving me an itchy trigger finger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldtrack Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Good deal, nice story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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