Spring bear primer!!
Time to get some hunting content on here to beat back the winter blues. Old or new pictures and stories to get us in the mood for the spring bear hunt. All you oldtimers who've been here on HBC since the doors opened....post up an old hunt! Theres tons of folks who weren't here the first time you posted and would probably love to see it!!
I'll try and get the ball rolling and forgive me if I can't recall all the details just right. It was mid april 2006 I believe, and my pards and I had a couple grizz draws out the McGregor area. We had scouted areas the previous fall and talkin to some locals were told the road gets kept open all winter due to the logging goin on....GREAT...we'll be able to get in early in the spring!!!! WRONG! All logging stopped out there that year and our attempt to get to km 86 died in 4 ft of snow at km 21
The chunk of real estate we were able to access hadn't looked promising for grizz, but we figured to give it a shot anyway. Cruising around, looking for a promising area to glass, i suddenly spot something VERY black on a knoll about 500 yds into and old block. All bino's go up and we're all pretty surprised to see a pretty good size blackie sitting on his rump enjoying the sunshine. We're all quite surprised as this is the earliest we've ever seen a blackie in the spring. HBC member "tank" grabs the vid camera and hangs back 20 yards while his dad and I begin our stalk. Lots of rolling terrain allows us to easily close to a comfortable 200 yds, allthough in truth this fellow was still so groggy from his winter sleep we could have walked right up on him any of the number of times he laid over and stretched out in the sun. So were all set up, Tanks dad is on his bipod and we're having a real good look at him....general consensus was that this guy would be a solid 6' from nose to tail. "that'll work" says Tanks's dad. Right about this point the bear gives a mighty yawn and stretch and rolls back to his feet, graciously offering his shoulder! One shot, tight to the shoulder with a 140 tsx out of a 7mm mag and the bear crumples and rolls down off his knoll!! Not the Grizz we were looking for, but a nice consolation prize!!!
Thats tank on the right, and me in the top pic doin my best skidder imitation. We were close on the guess, as the boar turned out to be 6' 1" nose to tail "in the round"
Okay....theres story 1!! I will post more but don't leave me hanging HBC, specially you folks who've been here as long as I have. Re-post the old bear huntin stories for all the new members who never got to see them the first time!!!
Chris
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Emerson
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by willyqbc
