How to extract a bear from 300 yards downhill

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Ever end up with a bear 300 yards downhill of the road?

How to extract it?

1. Remove your 900 feet of rope from the back of the truck and drag the end down to the bear.

2. Choke the bear around the armpits, then the neck with a half-hitch, then the snout.







3. Pull rope around nearest tree and attach to truck with a bowline





4. Pull




5. Voila







Except for running down and uphill again in distances from 300 yards to 50 yards about five times to unhook said bear from stumps and trees when it hangs up and to re-tie the rope when it breaks, it's easy as pie.
 
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had a hunting partners kid shot a mule deer at the bottom of the red deer river valley that was 450 ft, he learned a good lesson that day don't shoot something that's going to be a night mere to get up to the top of the hill.
 
The kid just hunkers down and gets the forelegs over his shoulders from the back, gets a good grip, stands up with the whole bear on his back and carries it back to the truck !!!! Getting saturated in bear blood doesn't seem to bother him..........
 
Borrow a plastic trappers toboggan and a come-along a winch the bear up, step by step. If that isn't possible, quarter the bear and pack the meat and hide uphill on your back.

Most hunters I know usually grow wiser with age. A couple of years back I passed on the largest moose I'd ever seen. A true 60" monster that is akin to winning the 6/49 three times in a row for Newfoundland hunters, as our Canadian sub species generally run much smaller. I had an easy shot, but it was across a gorge and deep brook. The nearest road was several miles away. There was two options, take the shot and lose at least half the meat, or pass. I don't regret passing.
 
Thanks Gord. I have a backpack in the back of the truck too, as I've packed 'em out in pieces before too, but this year I just had a feeling that I might need my lifetime's accumulation of halibut and prawn groundline and brought it along.
 
relic38 said:
Well, it will 'work'. It will just be very very slow.

An ATV would also be an option if the terrain is reasonable.
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Some people just dont get the hunting humor being exercised by the OP and yourself.
Thanks for sharing the story Michele and posting pictures.
I thought there was going to be some blood sweat and tears with a few beers between cussing too.
Pass on the congrats to the young hunter.
Best Regards,
Rob
 
Uphill Michel !!

Always shoot those buggers UPHILL of the truck! LoL :cool::)

Moving a freshly shot black bear is like wrestling with 200 pounds of Jello.
 
c-fbmi said:
The kid just hunkers down and gets the forelegs over his shoulders from the back, gets a good grip, stands up with the whole bear on his back and carries it back to the truck !!!! Getting saturated in bear blood doesn't seem to bother him..........
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Do you rent him out for lugging deer outta the woods on weekends?
 
relic38 said:
Well, it will 'work'. It will just be very very slow.

An ATV would also be an option if the terrain is reasonable.
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A winch is 'Plan A' IMO. Even if a length of rope is req'd; better standing there by the bumper ensuring your line stacks nicely ( or in a warm truck if it's raining )and talking to a spotter on a phone while you reel it in...than tying onto it and doing a 'Mr Toad' imitation backwards down a road.
If you can't afford it; that's one thing. I can respect that.
But they are way safer for just about everything. A nice slow speed electric motor with a thumb control beats a tow vehicle every time IMO.
And as far as vehicular recovery...wow. I have seen soft slings go through grills before tugging with trucks. Or a punched in tailgate from a chain breaking...yikes
Congrats on the bear btw
 
c-fbmi said:
The kid just hunkers down and gets the forelegs over his shoulders from the back, gets a good grip, stands up with the whole bear on his back and carries it back to the truck !!!! Getting saturated in bear blood doesn't seem to bother him..........
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Please don't do this. Another hunter would see this bear lumbering up the hill and take a shot at it.

Good story by the OP....and appreciate sharing the solution.
 
Sometimes It just doesn't matter where you shoot the damn animals, they head STRAIGHT FOR the worst spot imaginable to die. Shot a moose in NFLD about 5 years ago, and the thing ended up heading STRAIGHT DOWN A BIG GULLY immediately after impact. I had a 5 hour ordeal to get him up. (in pieces of course)
2 years ago, I shot 2 moose (with my hunting partner) and both animals were standing on opposite river banks. After the shots, both animals wobbled into the receded river bank and half-sank in the quicksand mud. The 4 of us (2 boats with 2 guys a boat) spent the next 4 hours in mud up to our groin. (freezing cold mud in october, which sucked our boots/socks off right away. We needed about 2 minutes each time we had to move a foot. All that time in the quicksand strained every muscle in our bodies. One of us ended up tearing his MCL and ACL in his left knee , and another guy had the varicose veins in his leg rupture , which sent a blood clot to his lung. WORST HUNT EVER. ( these injuries occurred while trying to move in that mud. All 4 of us were stuck like glue, and it was a knee-twisting time just trying to lift a leg out of the suction cup mud. Plus the creek only had a little stream 3 feet wide in the center that wasn't dried up, so it was the job of a lifetime to get 2 moose into our little 12' boats, and back out the creek entrance. The knee injury happened when they rolled over one of the moose to try to cut a part, and it rolled RIGHT OVER HIM due to his inability to move out of the way fast enough.....................tearing his knee to shreds.
 
"Sometimes It just doesn't matter where you shoot the damn animals, they head STRAIGHT FOR the worst spot imaginable to die."

Yes.
 
By the way, I did have a snatch block handy too but in this case didn't feel I needed to use it.

I was shown this method by a hunting pal on Vancouver island. Using his truck, block and rope we've retrieved a couple downhill bears that way too.
 
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