Successful Weekend!!....With Pics!

[.308win]

Trip started with a 4:45am wake up, threw some coffee and food into our faces, finished loading the truck and we were on the road buy 6am. Drove to our desired camping ground, put up the tent, and started our hunt!

Day 1, right off the start we see alittle runt, he didn't hang around but for a split second, as we pull on to the end landing, i notice some thing in the distance, yep, a bear, nice one at that! he was about 450yrds and with the wind direction, getting to him was not in the cards. Tried to find a road that might get me closer to him, but no such luck, any way the day ended with 4 sightings and no Bear!!

Day 2, we head out to another road that had some real good Bear sign from the day before, as I drive by a old grass covered skid trail, I see a black object, ~400yrds away, glass it, sure enough, a decent Bear!! The wind was perfect, but couldn't figure which way the Bear was headed, so I started the stalk, I get about 150yrds from him and see that he is actually coming my way, so I find a nice stump to rest on, he reaches about 60yrds and offers a beauty quartering away shot, I rest the cross hairs for a high shoulder shot, squeze.....BANG and flop!!! Now the work begins!! It was about a 300yrd drag to the lower road, on flat ground, so with some blood, sweat and tears I got him to the lower road! He came in at 5ft 3in, not a giant, but I hunt them for the meat, so he should be a tasty one!! Thanks for lessoning and enjoy the pics!!

The Beast!!
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The Fort!!
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p101/newfieguy1/IMG_3827.jpg

Some odds and ends!!
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p101/newfieguy1/IMG_3815.jpg

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Perry

[fester]

cool pics and bear congrats

[Summit 512]

Looks like a fun weakend....Congrads on the bear....thanks for sharing

[frenchbar]

Right on 308,great way to spend some great times with family,congrats on your bear.

[plumbob]

great pics and glad to see the family was involved in it also

[doubled]

Awesome pics, especially the moon shot. Well done with the yogie too.

[kennyj]

Awesome photos! Good to see the family out there.
kenny

[Steeleco]

Any trip with the family afield is a good one, the bear is a bonus. Congrats.

[rifleman]

sounds like a pretty good week end & meat in the freezer. can't get much better than that. good to see the whole family partaking in the greatest sport ever. keep up the good work!

[quackquackbang]

Awsome pics Perry and nice bear!!!!! the 243 done the job!!!!!!!!!:mrgreen:

[gerrygoat]

Nice to see families out like that congratulations.

[dana]

Perry,
Way to Go!!! Looks like you had a great weekend with the family. 8) The only problem now is we'll have to flip a coin to see who gets their second tag so we can get that big un you saw last week on the ground.:-D

[.308win]

Perry,
Way to Go!!! Looks like you had a great weekend with the family. 8) The only problem now is we'll have to flip a coin to see who gets their second tag so we can get that big un you saw last week on the ground.:-D

Yeah!.....That one is all yours!!:wink: If I get a second tag, thinking of waiting till fall.........Maybe give ol'quackquackbang a hand at his first Bear!! Thanks for the comments guys!! Appreciate it!!

Perry

[leadpillproductions]

congrads on the bear nice pics

[hunter1947]

Ha thats the way to do it the hole gone darn family involved ,thats the way to do it.

Congrats on getting the bear http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif.

[chilcotin hillbilly]

Thats great to see you went with the girls in your life. Looks like they had fun.

[whitespringer]

Doing what you enjoy, great. Even better with the wife and kids. Nice bear.:grin:

[BiG Boar]

Right on man, nice tasty looking bruin there! Cheers to that! Cool pictures also.

[buckguy]

Great to see the family with you, and a great looking bruin. A great way to spend a weekend.

[.308win]

Thanks guys!! For those interested, the rifle i used was a Stevens 200 in 243win. Loaded with 100grn Hornady SP, 39.1grn of H4350. I was Impressed with the bullet performance, it clipped the right shoulder blade, clipped the spine and went through the left shoulder blade, stopping at the hide, still had 58.6grn of weight to it!! Again, thanks for the comments guys, appreciate it!!

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Perry

[wolverine]

Way to go. Thanks for posting up the pics. Love the moon shot.

[martyonthewater]

great lookin meat bear 308, thanks for sharing