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BC Bigbore

BC Bigbore

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...when you haven't gotta gun :rolleyes:
Tuesday night, my wife and I went to check out some firewood shortly before dark. She asked why I didn't bring along a rifle (moose & elk are open) and I said we'll only be gone an hour. About 30 minutes later we are bouncing down an old trail and what walks out of the timber 50 yards in front of the truck? A legal two point (immature) bull moose. As I stumble to answer her unasked question of how stupid I could be, out walks another bull. This one is sporting a rack easily 50" across and has more than the required minimum of three brow points :eek: Two legal bull moose standing about 50 yards away, season is open, license is in wallet, don't start shift 'till Wed. night, rifles are at home :redface: I explain how I left the guns at home on purpose so that we'd see something. Her reply is that I'm simply full of $hit ;) We had a good laugh and managed to spot two more moose on the way home. All in all, it was great. Now that the "scouting" is complete, all I've gotta do is take Westicle in there and see if those bad boys wanna play ;) :cool: Anyone else wanna share a goof up?
 
well last bear season i went out of my way to make sure i had EVERYTHING ready to go figured i am set so i head to my camp get set up and start a fire to cook supper while i am waiting for supper to cook i figure get the rifle out to check my zero and make any final adjustments well out it comes and the first thing i noticed is the bolt is not in it it is 2 hours drive away on my kitchen counter. just as i put the fire out i head behind the camp to take a piss before heading back home and down the ravine about 80 yrds from me is a nice roughly 250 lb blackie. anyway got my gear loaded back into the company truck *yes my boss alowed me to use the truck in exchange for meat:D* as i get into radio range my dispatcher calls up on the radio to inform me my wife called and to tell me i forgot the bolt on the counter. and i never did tag that season nor did i see that bear again
 
Everytime I unload my gun or pass posted land there are legal animals everywhere. I am just going to hunt like Ned and Jimbo on southpark, locked and loaded all the time. "Honest officer that rabbit was attacking me" ;) On a more serious note, I have had these kind of things happen lots, like the time I went to feed the horses and a 6x6 mulie was just standing in the corral. Shot him the next morning and from then on my rifle and camera go where I go.
 
A couple of years ago when we first moved here bear season had just opened and I was licking my chops with excitement. I managed to convince my wife for us to take the kids and go "berry picking". So my wife and the kids who were still quite young were all strapped into the truck when I come jumping into the front seat with my rifle under my arm and fully dressed in orange. My wife looked at me with seething bitterness and asked me just what the hell I was doing. I explained that although we were going berry picking, we would also be in an opportune area for black bears. After a brief discussion I stomped away to put my rifle back in the gun safe. My wife told me, "Well you might as well bring it now." But I said, "Oh no. I don't want to ruin a family event!" So we drive 5 minutes from the house and I said, "There's one." There was about a 300 pound bear sitting in the clover about 50 yards beside the road. I screamed home in the truck as quickly as possible and flew down the stairs to the gun safe and grabbed my .270 and my orange hat and vest. I drove back and stopped about 200 yards before the spot where I saw the bear. I guy that drove past me in a vehicle pointed back over his shoulder indicating that the bear was still there. When I arrived at the clearing, I couldn't see him anymore. I walked slowly to the back in case he was bedded down in the grass. No bear. I walked back to the road and started to walk back to the truck. The bear came out of the bush and walked down the road right in front of my truck with my wife and kids in it. No safe shot. The bear walked into the bush and was gone. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. If I hadn't taken a suck attack, I guess that would have improved my luck, but what the heck, I was too frustrated to argue any further.
 
Every year while deer hunting I always see more grouse than you can shake a stick at (while holding my 45-70). While holding the shotgun and actively looking for grouse they all majically disappear....
 
Do as I did.....get the wife to get a license....then while your arms are full with wood...she can shoot the damn thing.
 
Similar thing happened to me a couple of years ago on a trip to Alberta. Being out of province I have to hunt with my buddy with him as the hunter host. Anyways, after the morning hunt and a hearty late breakfast back at camp I'm sitting around the campfire bored as hell and decide to go for a drive to scavenge up some good stumps for firewood. Ask my buddy if he wants to grab his rifle and come along for the ride. Nope, he's happy dozing in the chair by the fire and decides to wait for the evening hunt. Off I go and drive about 2 km up the main road and off onto a small side road with a goodly supply of stumps alongside it a bit further down just before the cut block it is accessing closes into a stand of trees on both sides. I drive down towards the tree line, park, and as I'm out loading up stumps into the back of my truck out walks a big bull moose from the treeline about 50 yds. down the road. He walks out of the treeline, into the middle of the road and stops there looking at me (beautiful broadside profile from 50 yds away). After about a minute he continues his meander across the road and into the trees on the other side. I hop into my truck and drive slowly down to where he disappeared just to have a gander again. He's standing just inside the treeline looking at me still, now about 20 yards away. I shake my head and drive a bit further down the road to turn around and head back to camp and as I drive over a small rise in the road I can see the end of the road and a small turn around about 100yds. away and what is standing there browsing at the turn around but a beauty of a 4x4 mulie. Doesn't even lift his head to look at me, just keeps munching away. Un-freaking believable. Why is it that when you're hunting and have your rifle with you that the animals sense that and are on the run before you can bring the rifle to shoulder but when you're not packing they just act like you aren't even there????

We checked that road morning and night for the rest of the week we were there and never saw another animal on it. Go figure.
 
headspace said:
Every year while deer hunting I always see more grouse than you can shake a stick at (while holding my 45-70). While holding the shotgun and actively looking for grouse they all majically disappear....
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So I am noticing this season. :( :D
 
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