That sounds familiar to my having an elk tag for so long, sooner or later if you're in the right area it just has to work in your favour and sure enough if you don't have a tag, that's when they show up in droves! :roll: :lol: Like when I was 16, same field as I got this guy in a huge heard ran through right in front of me and my 30-06 150 yards away, no tag. Never again I said!
I remember the first time I took Christy out for fall Black bear, We went out on the logging roads just north of the Burnt Timber Gas Plant. We found a lovely steamy berry suprise pile of scat on an old trail. We sat back to back, her with a 270 and I had the 375 H&H. I started to squal away on a Charlton call and man I don't know who was more scared of what was going to happen. She was not enjoying sitting by the "ringing dinner bell" at all. Nothing ever came of it but it sure kept our senses acute.
Good luck with the bruin search Jarrod!