Boys and bear hunting

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My oldest son and myself spent the weekend up at our lake lot in the northern foothills on a father-son exploring adventure. We kept it light and fun and spent hours checking creeks, looking for frogs, catching butterfly’s and having some elk smokies over the fire during the day. We put on a lot of miles on the lease roads cruising looking for feeding bears. On our last evening we spotted a bear down a small gas line, after a quick look through the binos I was convinced it was a smaller bear but we really could only see it’s back. My son wanted me to go shoot it in the worst way but I told him we don’t shoot small bears. After much back and forth he won when we came to an agreement that we would at least go see how close we could get. I brought my custom Remington 700 358STA just in case. As we got closer I was still thinking it was a smaller bear and not what we where looking for, but he still was very positive that we should take this bear. After some more thought I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t about the size of the bear and more about the expierence with my son by my side. So we closed the gap to about 40 yards and when the boar went broadise I fired hitting him good behind the shoulder. Bear dropped but got back up and took off for the bush on the side of the cutline. I fIred again, hitting him tight behind the shoulder. Again he dropped but was still moving so I fired one last round again behind the shoulder. He was now down and out. So still thinking this was a smaller bear I was quite shocked when we walked up to him and realized his size and how good of bear he actually is.
All around it was another great adventure with my son and a memory we will talk about for years to come. He has been in on 4 successful bears now by the age of 6, he’s going to be hard on the critters when he gets older.









 
Trimmer 905 said:
That's a very nice Blackie. Your boy's perception was right on. Size judgement on them can be very deceiving. This is wonderful to see. It's what we're all here for.
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Being realistic for a moment... how much perception do you think a six year old has about accurately judging the size of an animal that is worth harvesting?
 
calibrecarstairs said:
Being realistic for a moment... how much perception do you think a six year old has about accurately judging the size of an animal that is worth harvesting?
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probably not much, but more than some haha. He has been in on 4 successful bear hunts and probably close to a dozen stalks inside 50 yards and has seen well over 20 bears. Read enough on these hunting forums and I can assume he has more experience than some.

Most avid bear hunters like myself have a difficult time judging bears, my personal opinion they are the hardest animal to judge.
 
buckbrushoutdoors said:
probably not much, but more than some haha. He has been in on 4 successful bear hunts and probably close to a dozen stalks inside 50 yards and has seen well over 20 bears. Read enough on these hunting forums and I can assume he has more experience than some.

Most avid bear hunters like myself have a difficult time judging bears, my personal opinion they are the hardest animal to judge.
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I still place your six year old's judgement with his four successful hunts up there along side mine which is zero successful hunts.
 
calibrecarstairs said:
I still place your six year old's judgement with his four successful hunts up there along side mine which is zero successful hunts.
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Who the fk cares? This is a thread about a guy having a good weekend with his kid, why you gotta be like that?

OP nice job. I can't wait to do this with my kids, my middle boy is also 6 but I don't think the wife would let me take him on a bear hunt quite yet. Gonna try to take him and/or the oldest out for deer and grouse this fall though.
 
Great story, Its great that his decision played a part in the successful hunt - Bravo to you for making his experience and happiness a priority over the size of the bear. I'm taking two of my boys bear hunting in August for the first time, very much looking forward to it! Cheers!
 
freddyfour said:
Awesome, thank you for sharing. I want to start taking my older one with me. He's 7 now and I think he is ready for small trips. His mother may have issue though.....
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hunting with Kids has its challenges but the outcome is extremely rewarding. Pack lots of snacks, take time to find cool sticks and rocks and anything they can torture there sister with. Two moose in all out fight are much quieter than two kids walking down a moss covered cutline. Finding deer and moose sheds usually cost me a few bucks per antler to keep them focused on the task at hand. Carry lots of lens cleaner, small fingers always seem to find there way on to the objective lens of binoculars


 
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