Another bear downed by SKS

303carbine said:
I seen the pic of Rolling rock and his bear, he has a nice truck.Too bad he couldn't spend some of that money for a better bear gun. I don't hunt big game with small calibers like the sks that tend to wound before they kill. I believe if you're going to shoot these critters you owe it to them to take them as quick as possible. I could hunt them with a 22-250 but I don't think it's enough gun. The 7.62x39 is not what I consider to be a big game rifle either. Rollingrock, buy a 45-70 for bears and leave the gopher gun at home....
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There ya go.
I happen to agree with you completely. If you'd said this before instead of just attacking his character I'd have agreed with you right off the bat.
 
Please stop quoting 303 carbine in your posts as it bypasses the ignore function, and I don't want to read any more drivel from him. :rolleyes:
 
OMG! That's why I love posting my hunting stuffs in this section! :)

I indeed started actively hunting again about 2 years ago when my daughter hit her 2nd birthday. Before I was even afraid of telling people that I hunted and was very superstitious of some hunting practice. Not until recently I started recording most of my hunting activities and found it's very interesting. I do learn from every hunting trip, no matter what. I agree that I'm not good/ethical enough by some people's standards, like Gatehouse or Calum. But I'm still learning every day.

However, I don't think SKS is too marginal to be a good hunting rifle. Instead if you know your SKS and do enough what you should do while hunting, this gun can beat almost any other guns. You like the fact or not. Two years ago when I was in Harrison, someone shot a bear with a .300, dropped him and made him bawl for over half an hour. I was only 30 or so yards and witnessed whole thing. I don't know if you will call it 'undergunned', but I agree that the guy who shot the bear should have given the bear another one to put him out of misery. But I guess he didn't want to damage the skull? But anyway he didn't know I was there waiting for the same bear.

But anyway I proved again with proof that an SKS can do the job.
 
Skippy said:
Lol, Rollingrock, I don't know your family background, so I didn't want to insinuate that you looked VC or Red Korean or whatnot. You just looked like some sort of rural partisan ;)

And PS firstbmw: The naysayers don't say that an SKS can't kill, they just say it's generally unethical to trust it solely. Even rollingblock (arguably the SKS's biggest fan on the forums as far as hunting goes) carried a .303 for backup. He knows what he's doing, and that's why he's so successful.
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No I have no VC or Red Korean background at all. I'm a Canadian Chinese, :canadaFlag: who came from a country who taught VC or Korean how to fight guerilla war. ;) But I do know when not to use an SKS. :D
 
Calum said:
IMHO 10 mins was too long to wait...
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Calum, it is not too long to wait IF your personal safety is in any question. I would only approach a wounded bear IF I could see it and then only close enough for a finishing shot(s).

I know 10 minutes sounds like a long time, but every hunting situation is different and I won't be critical of another hunters use of caution.

Cheers
Jay
 
Congratulations rollingblock, always nice to hear "Took the family camping" and "stalked to with in 15yds"

Sounds like you have this hunting thing all figured out. I like that your wife sent you after the first bear. Mines like that to "bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
Wont be long till you'll have to get your wife a rifle and a hunter's number.

Keep up the good work !

P.S so your daughter is 4 now? Have you started shopping for a cooey .22 yet? You'll need it in the next year of so. Sooner you get them trained sooner you can wait in the warm truck!
 
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Honestly I did hesitate when I saw his leg kicking and heard him bawling. By putting another bullet into his body I would have more meat ruined, or putting another one into his head his skull would be screwed. I was hoping that he would have stopped kicking his legs within seconds. But that didn't happen. So I shot him again right into his head, shattered his skull and ruined one of his eyes. That just made my taxidermist a little more work to do.

But I could have had another option: went back to the truck, sat there and had a smoke for another 30 min or more and then went back to check out. This was the first time I tried to get up close to a blackie and shoot it. I treated it as a good stalking practice which it was.
 
david doyle said:
Congratulations rollingblock, always nice to hear "Took the family camping" and "stalked to with in 15yds"

Sounds like you have this hunting thing all figured out. I like that your wife sent you after the first bear. Mines like that to "bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
Wont be long till you'll have to get your wife a rifle and a hunter's number.

Keep up the good work !

P.S so your daughter is 4 now? Have you started shopping for a cooey .22 yet? You'll need it in the next year of so. Sooner you get them trained sooner you can wait in the warm truck!
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Hey David, my daughter is almost five now. I promised her this bear will be her rug by her bed which will cost me a few hundred bucks. She told her teacher that she had a bear in daddy's truck 'SAFE AND WARM':eek:. Luckily all her teachers are from hunting families and were laughing their heads off when they heard that. She was actually watching me stalking and shooting the bear through the window of my truck with her mom, not scared at all. After I dragged the bear on the road, she stood beside me watching me gutting the bear. I think a cooey .22 will be a good starting gun for her!:wave:
 
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Jay said:
I know 10 minutes sounds like a long time, but every hunting situation is different and I won't be critical of another hunters use of caution.
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Jay, The Bear is approx 15 yards away, and by the look of things in plain view, and one is armed with 4 more shots in a self loading rifle (that even has a bayonet), and the Bear is clearly immobilized by the first wound.

10 min is still to long...not just ethically, but consider that other predators are going to be attracted by that bears bawling.

Also up here in my part of Vancouver Island many Bears are attracted to the sound of gunfire thinking they are going to get a free meal of deer parts etc...one has to move quick, and get out lest they want furry company sneaking up behind them.

I suggest anyone that isn't going to practice shot placement, and proper animal assessment before one pulls the trigger to step back from hunting large predators.

No insult intended to all parties involved it's just how I was raised.
 
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Skippy said:
Rollingrock, rug be danmed, that bear looks just about the right size for a pair of pajamas for the daughter ;)
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I didn't expect this one to be a big one when I first saw it. The size is just about right for a kid's bed. :D I think the bears are going to rub their coats in about 2,3 weeks. The best coat I've seen this year was a smaller one I passed up a couple of weeks ago.
 
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This method works best...
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calum , thats a funny pic.

thats the BEFORE pic of a hunter patiently waiting and the AFTER pic of the same hunter fast asleep off the side road with empty bottles around him, a family of deers crosses the road in the back ground.:D
 
CannedMapleLeaf said:
Calum:

Finally get to see you in action. Man-oh-man, next time don't concentrate of pictures - especially road signs - look for the real thing! LOL:D
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Hey another guy from the Cowichan valley! :rockOn:

Yah know full well that we don't wear blaze Orange in these parts nor do we drink that swill. :D
 
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