success at last

[Geronimo]

Last Fri/Sat my son, "Dutchie" and myself went out for an overnight hunt for our first black bear-- we have seen many in the past, but whether we were too slow, noisey,or whatever ,we have not been able to get a shot off.
Sat morning,after dealing with a punctured tire--bad rocks-- and getting back into the bush we saw this fellow

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv267/papa5052/005.jpg

then we saw this crawling into a drainage culvert

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv267/papa5052/031.jpg

Later in the day around noon we startled this up a tree ( here's blackie)

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv267/papa5052/027.jpg

with the final result http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv267/papa5052/030.jpg

I would like to send extra kudo's and thanks to "Steelco" and his family for his assistance with processing our animal--he gave us the lowdown on easiest ways to gut, skin and quarter blackie--very knowlegable and tremendous person-- his wonderful family almost seemed to adopt us--thanks for the burger etc. hope to be able to do the same for them or others in the future. http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Geronimo]

P.S. We have been sworn to secrecy to the area we were in and in addition we sighted several Does but were unable to get clear pictures of them-- it was a blast overnighter---8):biggrin::biggrin:

[leadpillproductions]

Nice lookin bear what did he measure congrads.

[Geronimo]

approx "60" or just over

[Steeleco]

So that's the picture!! I'm glad I could help. It was a real pleasure talking to you and James. Enjoy the table fare, it will be tasty I'm sure.

Now if I could get my LEH for that bull, now we both know where to go HUH?? LOL.


OOPS, forgot to add, Your Welcome!!

[sneg]

nice bear.good job.congrats

[870]

did you knock that bear out of the tree?

[Summit 512]

Congrats on the bear.....good pictures to

[Stone Sheep Steve]

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv267/papa5052/005.jpg



That moose with his tongue sticking out at you, obviously knows you won't draw a tag this coming fall:-P.

Congrats on the bear!

SSS

[Angel]

how did dutchies little Goose behave or did he sit this one out? Nice pcis and congrats on the bear.

[Geronimo]

nope Goose was sitting right beside us all the time. We have a little bench set up behind the seats so he is level with us so he can see out the windows too. What he does is rests his head on one of our shoulders I have him conditioned to largebore muzzle report now so he just kills time with us and ever 30 mins to hour we would let him out to run, eat or do a pee.

It was really funny, he was right there when we gutted the bear and was pulling on some hair, sniffing the bear, and then in Steelco's camp he was barking at the skinned bear hide.

and thanks again to Steelco and Buckwheat Lorri and Heather, they all helped us out alot from helping us find the bears to skinning to not letting us leave with empty bellies.

http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq187/jamesmramor/015.jpg

and the thunbnail picture is pissing me off so here is a better one.

http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq187/jamesmramor/030.jpg

And 870, it was a Bang........flop from about 40 feet up the tree!

Dutchie

OOps didn't know my dads account was running

[Buckwheat]

No problem, like you said earlier it was a blast. I hope you enjoy every taste of that bear.

congrats.
Buckwheat