Re: Spring Black Bear
Originally Posted by
josh_pattersin
Well our second time up this year we were going to head back to Boston bar as it was looking nice and green in a spot I like around the last weekend of April. The weather was calling to be pretty nasty so instead we headed up towards lillooet where a friend has a cabin we can use.
We had a nice drive up on Thursday after the work day and got up there in the dark. Had a fire and a beer and got some sleep. First day we covered a lot of road and glassed a lot but didn't see a spot of sign.
Day 2 I decided to drive up a different valley where I had got a deer last year. I was thinking things were looking dead and brown when the road started to green up nicely. As we rounded a corner my passenger who is a new hunter shouted bear! this guy was in the sun eating dandelions about 20 yards off the road. He sprinted towards the trees and I thought he was gone but I stopped and shut the truck off and told my passenger to hop out and load up his gun. Passenger didn't want to shoot and the bear looked pretty good to me so I quickly set up the bipod and the bear had turned back to check us out. He was about 125 yards broadside but slightly behind some trees. About 5 paces to go till he was in the thick stuff. He stepped forward and I put my crosshairs on his front shoulder, held steady and pulled the trigger. As usual didn't even feel the boom of the 338. He spun on a dime and ran back toward the road. It was about 60 yards to the road. I was quickly reloading as I had only thrown one into the chamber to make that shot. As he hit the road I knew he was hurting bad and slowed down a lot. I got reloaded and got back on him. He hit the ditch on the far side of the road and there was some trees there with an opening behind. I got ready for him to come through the trees but he never made it. He had dropped dead in the ditch. Perfect! The shot had shattered his close side shoulder and come out just behind the other shoulder taking out both lungs on the way.
I had 2 new hunters with me so I spent the rest of the afternoon teaching them to gut, skin, and process the meat. They loved the learning experience as both had never seen anything shot before. He had a beautiful coat and was about 5.5 feet long. He's already turned into pepperoni! Good start to the season with my grizzly hunt in 2 weeks!!
Way to go! Looks like spring Bear season is in full swing!
He's anything but a hunter.
More like another, Rain Coast Sociopath Fraud. Living off the prevails of his chronic lies, like the rest of them...
It's an issue, because these sociopath environmentalist's, will dilute the facts.
To the point you or Joe public, won't know them any more..
They count on that big time..