bruin
05-28-2007, 02:31 PM
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I went out for an evening hunt, region two, and took my girlfriend with me. We glassed some slides and old roads seeing 5 different bears but notheing of any size. On the way home we decided to check one more area which was an old logging slash. At the end of the road I saw this guys head looking over the hill at us. He left the slash on an old skidder road. I followed him in and found that he must have been using the road for a couple of years because you could see where he placed his feet in the same tracks each time. I rounded a corner and there he stood at 70 yards. I shot him once through the lungs and he ran maybe 60-80 yards before dying. He squares at 7' right on the button. I couldn't believe that and I didn't think he was that big when i shot him. His skull measures 19 3/8". This is the first time that I have hunted with a gun rather than my recurve all season and I felt a little guilty but I don't think i would have got him if I had the old stick and string.
I went out for an evening hunt, region two, and took my girlfriend with me. We glassed some slides and old roads seeing 5 different bears but notheing of any size. On the way home we decided to check one more area which was an old logging slash. At the end of the road I saw this guys head looking over the hill at us. He left the slash on an old skidder road. I followed him in and found that he must have been using the road for a couple of years because you could see where he placed his feet in the same tracks each time. I rounded a corner and there he stood at 70 yards. I shot him once through the lungs and he ran maybe 60-80 yards before dying. He squares at 7' right on the button. I couldn't believe that and I didn't think he was that big when i shot him. His skull measures 19 3/8". This is the first time that I have hunted with a gun rather than my recurve all season and I felt a little guilty but I don't think i would have got him if I had the old stick and string.