pikey
06-18-2008, 02:15 PM
Been a little busy and haven't been able to post pics but 02fish2day and I headed out to look for bears June 8th in the Nahatalatch area.
We headed quite a long way in, past the provincial park and then some, lots of sign but surprisingly went a while before seeing a bear.
We had just finished checking out a cut and jumped back into the truck, drove only a couple of hundred yards when he exploded out of the underbrush, ran in front of the truck, thought better of it and took off done a steep hill. He stopped at about 80 yards and just seemed content to lie down watching us, never seen that behaviour before.
Of course there was too much crap in the way for a shot, so I stayed in his sight on the road to keep him stationary and Matt headed down the road a little to flank him and try and get a shot.
A few minutes later I heard the Bang and Mr. Black bear didn't seem so comfortable lying down any more, he took off.....fast.
He turned broadside to me and was still running hard. He was heading into an area where I could get a clear shot from my vantage point and I placed the crosshairs behind his front leg and squeezed.....took one more step and fell over, less than 20 seconds between the shots and it was all over.
We both learnt that day why it is better to shoot an animal tha fell uphill from you rather than downhill, between the deadfalls and the steep loose slope it took about an hour and a half to get him to the road....a grand distance of under 100 yards. There was some colourful language.
The day was warming up some and we were a little concerned about the meat spoiling, 5 minutes down the road was this beautiful waterfall, it was at least 10 degrees cooler there and couldn't ask for a better place for a few pictures.
Thank you Mr. Black Bear.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk201/pikey6239/FirstBearJune8thNahatalatch.jpg
We headed quite a long way in, past the provincial park and then some, lots of sign but surprisingly went a while before seeing a bear.
We had just finished checking out a cut and jumped back into the truck, drove only a couple of hundred yards when he exploded out of the underbrush, ran in front of the truck, thought better of it and took off done a steep hill. He stopped at about 80 yards and just seemed content to lie down watching us, never seen that behaviour before.
Of course there was too much crap in the way for a shot, so I stayed in his sight on the road to keep him stationary and Matt headed down the road a little to flank him and try and get a shot.
A few minutes later I heard the Bang and Mr. Black bear didn't seem so comfortable lying down any more, he took off.....fast.
He turned broadside to me and was still running hard. He was heading into an area where I could get a clear shot from my vantage point and I placed the crosshairs behind his front leg and squeezed.....took one more step and fell over, less than 20 seconds between the shots and it was all over.
We both learnt that day why it is better to shoot an animal tha fell uphill from you rather than downhill, between the deadfalls and the steep loose slope it took about an hour and a half to get him to the road....a grand distance of under 100 yards. There was some colourful language.
The day was warming up some and we were a little concerned about the meat spoiling, 5 minutes down the road was this beautiful waterfall, it was at least 10 degrees cooler there and couldn't ask for a better place for a few pictures.
Thank you Mr. Black Bear.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk201/pikey6239/FirstBearJune8thNahatalatch.jpg