Buckmaster123
05-14-2013, 06:51 PM
Well that was fast, as I look at my first bear of the year laying in front of me. Not 30 minutes before, I was gathering my gear from the truck as I threw in a wad of chew, and started walking up into the cut block. I could see storm clouds in the distance as thunder rumbled through the air with a nice 10 mph head wind. I had not seen any scat on the drive in, but a couple of smaller bears grazing on the sides of the road. The air was cool as the wind swept across the remanning snow in the creeks and north slopes. In the distance I saw a large burn pile as I hiked, so once I got there I climbed on up, sat on a log, and glassed the slopes above me for a couple of minutes. Then as I was getting more comfortable I looked down on the road bellow me and there he was. 300 yards below the bear munching away on clover. I could tell he was a mature boar, and of descent size as he was on his elbows eating away. I glassed him for a few more minute and decided to have a closer look. I could tell he was not in a hurry so I stalked up on him through the cut block which was rather crunchy from all of the warm weather. Now I had in him in the cross hairs at 155 yards as I rested on a stump. Looking through my scope, I could tell that my first assessment was correct, and he was a descent bear, but was very lean and lanky. Just as i was getting comfy, the bear started to make a move for the edge of the road, so I quickly took the safety off, aimed at the sweet spot, and let it go......270 grs of lead hurdling towards him at 2400 ft per sec from my 9.3 x 62. I saw dust fly behind him, and quickly re-chambered thinking I may have missed for some reason. To my dismay, I watched him run off the edge of the road before I could get another shot off. I watch for a while with no sight of him, then deicide to walk back to the truck and drive down to where he went over the bank. 20 minute or so had passed as I drove up to the previous scene, and low and behold there was a large blood spray on the ground where the bear had previously stood. The dust I saw was my bullet passing through the bear as I looked at the hole it the ground. I get out of the truck, and walk to edge thinking I would see the bear...........but nothing, no bear to be seen. I could see some blood, but not lots, so I walk down the road to where I could get a better look into the block..........and still nothing!! Oh boy, things are going to get interesting, I'm all by myself in the middle of know where, and I have to go looking for a potentially wounded bear......^%R$!!! So I take off my jacket and and long sleeve shirt wanting to be able to use all of my senses, and prepared for the worst. I take off my binoculars and range finder, grab my knife and rifle and head off over the bank following the blood. Soon the blood disappeared, so I started looking into the thick forest at the bottom edge of the block, and thought to myself, this is not good. Then just out of the conner of my eye I see a black figure piled up in the rocks not 15 yards from the edge of the road where I had shot him. Wow, good thing he was not wounded, could have been messy. But there he was, a nice bear, and all over before I knew it. Fastest hunt of my life.http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/2013-05-13_11_34_25_2.jpghttp://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/2013-05-13_11_32_40.jpghttp://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/2013-05-13_11_20_23.jpghttp://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/2013-05-13_11_24_10.jpg