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Officially scored today, Dec 28 2007! 20 2/16
Makes B.C. records by over an inch and just makes it into boone and crocket by 2/16.
Well, this last weekend was supposed to be a camping, bear hunting weekend with the wife... Leave Saturday morning, hunt for the day, camp out for the night and then hunt again Sunday for a few hours before going to work on graveyards Sunday evening. As things would have it the weather had different plans. Saturday morning we woke to rain that appeared to have set in for the day so that kinda killed the camping/hunting plans. So Saturday was spent sulking at home.
Sunday we woke to a little bit better day but still not exactly what we were looking for. We did a few things and then decided we'd go for a drive with the guns to see if anything was out. Well, as Mother nature would have it, the weather made a change for the worse and the rain moved back in before we could get to where we wanted to hunt. A little miffed, we headed back towards home down a short piece of logging road which I have traveled a thousand times and had never seen a bear on before. Coming over a small rise in the road, low and behold there's a bear just disapearing over the crest of the hill infront of us. I piled on the breaks, grabed my rifle, range finder, and binos and hustled off up the road after it. As I started to crest the hill where I had last seen the bear, totally expecting to see him feeding in the ditch just over the rise, I spotted him down the road traveling at a fairly quick pace. As I spotted him, he quartered away from me and stopped, looking into the cutblock infront of him. I quickly sat down on the road, rested my rifle on the bi-pod, BOOM.... He instantly lunged across the road and into the cutblock half disapearing into the brush. I quickly laoded another into my singe shot and proceded to scan the edge of the block for him where he had last been seen, nothing. Now I waved for my wife to come up the road with the truck. As she followed me I walked up the road to where he had been standing. To my dismay, no blood on the logging road or in the ditch where he had crossed. Now, with the bear at some unknown point in the thick brush, the single shot went into the hands of my wife and the defender, loaded with 000 buckshot, came out! Carefully and very slowly we headed in after him. It was a very short search as only 50 yards away we found him piled up behind some logs.
I am not a bear hunter, and never have been. The last bear I shot was rougly 10 years ago. As we got up to the bear my wife asked me how big he was and I told her I thought he was maybe 5 - 5.5 foot bear. Apparently I was wrong. I asked a friend to help me skin him and my friend commented on how large he was. As it turned out he measured out at roughly 7 feet and his skull green scored a little over 20" (neither one of us is an expert at measuring but these measurments are close). As of right now the skull is at the taxidermists being cleaned and bleached and when that's done it will be officially scored and I'll have the numbers to share with you.
Taken at 265 yards with a ruger No.1 300Win Mag
Makes B.C. records by over an inch and just makes it into boone and crocket by 2/16.
Well, this last weekend was supposed to be a camping, bear hunting weekend with the wife... Leave Saturday morning, hunt for the day, camp out for the night and then hunt again Sunday for a few hours before going to work on graveyards Sunday evening. As things would have it the weather had different plans. Saturday morning we woke to rain that appeared to have set in for the day so that kinda killed the camping/hunting plans. So Saturday was spent sulking at home.
Sunday we woke to a little bit better day but still not exactly what we were looking for. We did a few things and then decided we'd go for a drive with the guns to see if anything was out. Well, as Mother nature would have it, the weather made a change for the worse and the rain moved back in before we could get to where we wanted to hunt. A little miffed, we headed back towards home down a short piece of logging road which I have traveled a thousand times and had never seen a bear on before. Coming over a small rise in the road, low and behold there's a bear just disapearing over the crest of the hill infront of us. I piled on the breaks, grabed my rifle, range finder, and binos and hustled off up the road after it. As I started to crest the hill where I had last seen the bear, totally expecting to see him feeding in the ditch just over the rise, I spotted him down the road traveling at a fairly quick pace. As I spotted him, he quartered away from me and stopped, looking into the cutblock infront of him. I quickly sat down on the road, rested my rifle on the bi-pod, BOOM.... He instantly lunged across the road and into the cutblock half disapearing into the brush. I quickly laoded another into my singe shot and proceded to scan the edge of the block for him where he had last been seen, nothing. Now I waved for my wife to come up the road with the truck. As she followed me I walked up the road to where he had been standing. To my dismay, no blood on the logging road or in the ditch where he had crossed. Now, with the bear at some unknown point in the thick brush, the single shot went into the hands of my wife and the defender, loaded with 000 buckshot, came out! Carefully and very slowly we headed in after him. It was a very short search as only 50 yards away we found him piled up behind some logs.
I am not a bear hunter, and never have been. The last bear I shot was rougly 10 years ago. As we got up to the bear my wife asked me how big he was and I told her I thought he was maybe 5 - 5.5 foot bear. Apparently I was wrong. I asked a friend to help me skin him and my friend commented on how large he was. As it turned out he measured out at roughly 7 feet and his skull green scored a little over 20" (neither one of us is an expert at measuring but these measurments are close). As of right now the skull is at the taxidermists being cleaned and bleached and when that's done it will be officially scored and I'll have the numbers to share with you.
Taken at 265 yards with a ruger No.1 300Win Mag
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