nice choclate phase down..

[walks with deer]

will ask someone to post some pics for me tomorow.

["No Choke"Lord Walsingham]

Congrats! This is great news.

Looking forward to seeing the Bear.

[HarryToolips]

Congrats, great to hear of so many bears hitting the dirt....

[RyoTHC]

Lets see some pictures!

Where are all the BLACK bears? :D

[walks with deer]

looks lime fuzzybiscuit is a swell guy and help post them up.
i would love to tell you a epic bear hunting tale but truth is i normally just shoot them when i see them doing my normal day to day activitys....
this year i saw some small boars and small sows with cubs including blonde cubs...
this weekend was like every other weekend working and working and working...saturday night it started to snow in tbe alpine above my house and countinued most of sunday...
after eating to many caribou tocos aroud 6 pm the sun came out...i told the wife i am eitheir going to bed or go bear hunting the classic after dinner sunday stuffed and relaxed...

she told me i can not go to bed that early i better go hunting..
so i grabbed the 458 and decided to go for a drive...
i have numerous locations around and i had to decide two things.
1.where do i think there is a mature male blackbear
2.where do i want to make sure there is no fawn eaters.
haveing cbecked numerous of my fawning areas in the last week i opted yo go look on a mountain we call freezer 4 as it seems to feed me on demand.

[walks with deer]

this mountain is very steep and made up of only 7 slahes with a burn above amd stands of decidious...and fir open rocky timber...
this hidden gem has mule deer moose grouse and bear in great numbers...
i was hesitant to go in because downhill recoverys can be painfull..
just afyer the 2km marker i noticed a new broken sappling about 5-6 feet up the tree. clear signs of a boar marking his territory...as i approached the top of the hill i was scanning every corner and this reddish brown clear as day boar was doing mach 5 up the steep terrain...
i gave him the classic (maahh) as i chambered a 400 grain bullet into the custom mauser action...leading the bear i thought of shooting him running bit decided to hope for a look back...
as the bear entered the timber he stopped behind a tree to stair....

i could not make out his lungs clearly so i put the crosshairs on his neck as i set the trigger i was a flick from fireing i exhaled and touched the trigger..
the rifle roared to life as if in the same secound the bear dropped like a stone...than the down hill rolls began... he covered quite some distance rolling.

i gave him a couple minutes and walked up to a nice 6ft brown blackbear stone dead... having cleanes the truck out earlier that day i was low on extra pack out stuff and cleaned him to lighten the drag...about 45 minutes later i had him in winching distance to the truck...

winching went quick but i still could not get him in the box of the truck...the wife has been bugging me for a rug so i did not want to cut him...
instead i dragged him to the uphill bank across the street and pulled the old back the tailgate into the bank manuver and on to home.

[walks with deer]

home was the easiest lifting i have done on a bear before...i fired up my new 220 excavator and lifted..lol

[fuzzybiscuit]

Walks with deer had some great video too but unfortunately I’m not advanced enough to post it up.

Congrats on a great bear.

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[ryanszeredi]

thats a great looking bear !!

[monasheemountainman]

beautiful bear! congrats!

[walks with deer]

thanks for posting fuzzybiscuit...
picture 1 is where i was standing he was top left in the timber 200yds up. he rolled down along the timber lol

[dmaxtech]

nice bear!! should make a nice rug.

[walks with deer]

picture two is when i dragged him across the road up the bank so i could do the tailgate manuver

[walks with deer]

picture three is in my yard see snow just above.

[walks with deer]

last pic is all cleaned up and off to tannery.

[RackStar]

Great bear I love all the color phase bears on here this year.
Low snow line for mid June!? Crazy.

Is that Kamloops where it snowed like that?

[Red_Mist]

Nice looking bear. Congrats.

[weatherby_man]

Wow, beautiful colour phase bear. It will look awesome.

[boxhitch]

Last pic shows more red hilights....cinnamon ?
Attago

[caddisguy]

Awesome bear! What a beauty. Great story too. I enjoyed the part about the broken sapling and all the creative efforts to get him in the truck. Still must have been a chore rolling him up back up the hill.

[walks with deer]

yup little stiff today after butchering yesterday after work..

yes boxhitch very red photo doesnt give justice.

[walks with deer]

yes kamloops snow..

[walks with deer]

taxidermist called and said it makes book...lol

its still way smaller than last years cow bear lol.

[albravo2]

Stunning bear. Nice work! That will make a beauty rug.

[BCHunterFSJ]

Great colour on that guy...
Way to go!

[guest]

Nice Bear congrats WWD

[walks with deer]

taxidermist called and said it makes book...
now for the funny part... once i approached the bear i cleaned it right away and started dragging it...

i set my gun down and proceeded doing 1 lung pull than stop game for a good 150yds..
now my gun is back halfway to the gut pile but its a big slash and mr bear hunter proceeds on another strenous pull when a mama blue grouse flys at his face as he almost dragged a bear on her nest..
wow they still get me everytime...her babys where small and started running around so i backed off and had to pull the bear away from the nest and then back on line lol.

[adriaticum]

Beauty bear, congrats!

[marcus44]

Beauty bear!

[Ron.C]

That's a beauty. Great job!!!

[DStewart]

That’s a nice one for sure

[Tim Tam Slam]

Nice bear! That’s redneck innovation right thur! :grin: