two-feet
05-31-2015, 09:54 AM
I said to my buddy: lets head up Telkwa River and we will get a bear at Jonas Creek. So we drove up and there he was exactly as predicted, right beside the creek.
He was starting to walk into the bush so I gave some calf type squalks and he turned back just enough to give me an acute angle far side shoulder shot, I took my first shot at game with my new-to-me JC Higgins .270 win. The bear dropped like a sack of potatoes. As we Hi fived and discussed how it was too easy the bear jumped to his feet and went into the bush.
We loaded up and went to check out the sign. Plenty of blood. It was of course super thick bush and 8pm. The blood trail was quite obvious as we went along but started to peter out the further we went. After a while I was down on my hands and knees following the odd drop or smear. Then it quit altogether and getting quite dusky. We decided to just do a general walkabout with the last light.
I went one way and my buddy another. About 15 minutes later I heard BOOM, then BOOM, BOOM!
We were in thick alder tangle right by the creek and I guess the bear stood up about 15 yrds from him so he put one in its neck with the .308, and when it kept wiggling a couple more for good measure. I showed up and we got to work.
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My first shot had taken out a shoulder, lung, and came out its neck. Don't really understand why he decided to go another 200 yds into the jungle.
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He was 200-250lbs I guess, I brought 72lbs to the butcher today, and there was much of a front shoulder that did not make the cut. Smoked hams, breakfast sausage, bratwurst.
I gave my boy a butter knife to "help" with the cutting
He was starting to walk into the bush so I gave some calf type squalks and he turned back just enough to give me an acute angle far side shoulder shot, I took my first shot at game with my new-to-me JC Higgins .270 win. The bear dropped like a sack of potatoes. As we Hi fived and discussed how it was too easy the bear jumped to his feet and went into the bush.
We loaded up and went to check out the sign. Plenty of blood. It was of course super thick bush and 8pm. The blood trail was quite obvious as we went along but started to peter out the further we went. After a while I was down on my hands and knees following the odd drop or smear. Then it quit altogether and getting quite dusky. We decided to just do a general walkabout with the last light.
I went one way and my buddy another. About 15 minutes later I heard BOOM, then BOOM, BOOM!
We were in thick alder tangle right by the creek and I guess the bear stood up about 15 yrds from him so he put one in its neck with the .308, and when it kept wiggling a couple more for good measure. I showed up and we got to work.
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r748/two-feet1/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsklsrvir8.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/two-feet1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsklsrvir8.jpg.html)
My first shot had taken out a shoulder, lung, and came out its neck. Don't really understand why he decided to go another 200 yds into the jungle.
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r748/two-feet1/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpshsqy6zeq.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/two-feet1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpshsqy6zeq.jpg.html)
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He was 200-250lbs I guess, I brought 72lbs to the butcher today, and there was much of a front shoulder that did not make the cut. Smoked hams, breakfast sausage, bratwurst.
I gave my boy a butter knife to "help" with the cutting