2013 Wounded Warrior in Action bear hunt

[chilcotin hillbilly]

Lets me start with the introduction of this this years hero. His name is Justin Hall and served as a marine in Iraq and fell victim to not one but two IED's. The second one happened while on the first patrol after healing from the first IED.

Let me say what a great young man to have in camp. Justin could not get enough of the dog hunting, wanting to hunt dawn to dusk with the dogs. In 6 days hunting we treed 10 bears and bayed up 4 large boars.

Justin ended killing a toothless old boar for his first one which green scored 19 3/4" and squared 6'8".

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The second boar, was one in its prime, 5 or 6 years old with an 18" skull and squared 6'4, both bears had prime hides. Justin left for Oregon with two beauty hides and a pile of bear meat. We killed his second bear on the last day after passing up some smoker boars holding out for a colour phase. Last day, last hour we got luck and treed a mature boar and filled his tag on a black one.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm194/skinnercreek/bears%20and%20dogs%202013/Justins2nd_zpse89fdeb5.jpg (http://s296.photobucket.com/user/skinnercreek/media/bears%20and%20dogs%202013/Justins2nd_zpse89fdeb5.jpg.html)

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[srupp]

Well done again ...Doug..some amazing bears..don't they ever rub out there??lol sure been a LOT of SKINNING @Skinner Creek Outfitting this year...Great job hosting these Heros...

cheers

Steven

[Hammerhead]

That's awesome. Two nice bears. The crap that some of these guys go thru it's great to see him come out on top.
Congrats and Thanks to Justin
HH

[Blainer]

Fine looking bruins

[Ron.C]

Great work offering up these hunts to these guys/gals. I'd like to see more companies following suit. Great bears

[ROY-alty33]

Great story, great bears, great cause. Sometimes the GO's get a bad rap, guilty of it myself......

[blueboy]

Great story Doug ,there should be more outfitters like you and Billy Franklin from silver sage outfitters.
Thanks for looking after the men and women that protect our country

[Salty]

Sweeeeeet. .....

[Steve W]

Great cause. Great hunt. It would be humbling to be around a guy like that.

Steev

[EvanG]

I saw a while back on your website that you take part in the wounded warrior program. That's top notch in my opinion, and fine bears to top it all off.

[chilcotin hillbilly]

I saw a while back on your website that you take part in the wounded warrior program. That's top notch in my opinion, and fine bears to top it all off.
EvanG, I don't work with Wounded Warrior Program.
Wounded Warriors in Action is a different foundation. A much better organization which does not spend 70% of donations on administation and advertising.
All these heros have been wounded in combat, this is much different then WWP.

[albravo2]

Great story. Thanks for posting. We owe a lot to those guys.

[EvanG]

my mistake... either way good on ya for doing it.

[chilcotin hillbilly]

my mistake... either way good on ya for doing it.

Unfortunately alot of people make the same mistake and donate to the wrong one. I often hear from people "I saw the show you did and donated to Wounded Warrior Project oops!!!"