pete Report post Posted August 23, 2011 What an exciting weekend. We saw 5 bears tryin to let the air out of one with a bow on Saturday proved to be trying.The closest I could get in that thick stuff was about 300 yards.On Sunday since 300 yards was the closest the day before I broke out the 300 rum and ended up shooting this beautiful chocolate sow within bow range.Go figure We decided to do some looking from the highway and found a little road drove in and parked right inside the fence walked over to a little creek nothing in hand but swaro's.Started to class around was there for about a minute took the bino's down to look around and noticed some movement to my left and saw a brown patch moving through the brush went for the rifle and it wasn't there SHOOT did the quickest 40 yard dash on earth to this day to the tuck grabbed the rifle all of this happening while I'm hollering for my buddy in the softness stern voice Mike,Mike,Mike he comes runnin what what, ba ba ba bear over here.Mike has bow in hand I have 300 rum in hand we sneek back over to the edge and the bear is not there.My heart sank. So I pulled out my call and was going to bring her back to us then I seen her coming down to us finally there she is.I asked Mike do you see her a soft yes floated through the air with the bipod down on a rock in front of me I put her in the crosshairs but she was walking right to me so I made a litte noise and she turned to her left and stopped staring right at me.I looked up thanked the lord and looked through the scope put the crosshair right on the boiler room and let her have 210 and grains of berger delight.She let out a yell that would curl your hair did a front flip and ran for about 10 yards and piled up right in plain view.The high fives,hand shakes,and blood pressure were through the roof.It was over I leaned over and told Mikey now the work begins.All in all it was'nt bad she fell about 140 yards from the truck it was a pretty simple recovery. Thanks Pete Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mp_moody Report post Posted August 23, 2011 What an exciting weekend. We saw 5 bears tryin to let the air out of one with a bow on Saturday proved to be trying.The closest I could get in that thick stuff was about 300 yards.On Sunday since 300 yards was the closest the day before I broke out the 300 rum and ended up shooting this beautiful chocolate sow within bow range.Go figure We decided to do some looking from the highway and found a little road drove in and parked right inside the fence walked over to a little creek nothing in hand but swaro's.Started to class around was there for about a minute took the bino's down to look around and noticed some movement to my left and saw a brown patch moving through the brush went for the rifle and it wasn't there SHOOT did the quickest 40 yard dash on earth to this day to the tuck grabbed the rifle all of this happening while I'm hollering for my buddy in the softness stern voice Mike,Mike,Mike he comes runnin what what, ba ba ba bear over here.Mike has bow in hand I have 300 rum in hand we sneek back over to the edge and the bear is not there.My heart sank. So I pulled out my call and was going to bring her back to us then I seen her coming down to us finally there she is.I asked Mike do you see her a soft yes floated through the air with the bipod down on a rock in front of me I put her in the crosshairs but she was walking right to me so I made a litte noise and she turned to her left and stopped staring right at me.I looked up thanked the lord and looked through the scope put the crosshair right on the boiler room and let her have 210 and grains of berger delight.She let out a yell that would curl your hair did a front flip and ran for about 10 yards and piled up right in plain view.The high fives,hand shakes,and blood pressure were through the roof.It was over I leaned over and told Mikey now the work begins.All in all it was'nt bad she fell about 140 yards from the truck it was a pretty simple recovery. Thanks Pete Congrats! Pictures? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pete Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Working to upload pics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loco4coues Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Awesone! Thanks for the story now let's see the pics! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonecollector Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Hey man I stopped and talked to you guys that morning. I was in the white ford F150. Congrats again on a nice bear. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couzer Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Congrats guys! Way to go!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Here are Pete's bear pics: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Nice bear . Congrats!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grandmawhitetailhunter52 Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Nice bear!!!! We were hunting 24A also saw no bear except on the game cam's one was shot as we were sitting on a mountain side calling very close to us, saw them after the shot on the mountain oposite from where we were sitting. Nice weather 1st day. Saw lots of rattle snakes and lots of coues. Thanks for sharing the picture Nice!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Non-Typical Solutions Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Looks like fun, congrats on the bear.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted August 23, 2011 Nice job Pete! really pretty bear... Have any more guns to sell me?!?! Looks like she has a mohawk! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Knifeboy Report post Posted August 23, 2011 The high fives,hand shakes,and blood pressure were through the roof. Thats a hilarious line! We all know the feeling, and I felt it as I read the post. Great Post! And that is an absolutely beautiful bear! Big congratualtions to you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZLance Report post Posted August 24, 2011 sounds like 24 was the place to be! lots of bears killed this weekend! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tjhunt2 Report post Posted August 24, 2011 Good story and congratulations on a pretty bear. TJ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pine Donkey Report post Posted August 24, 2011 Love the color...beautiful bear. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
