Used up a tag for being humane

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So a friend and I were out bear hunting yesterday trying to find a big sow we knew was in the area when we came across the tracks of a small bear and a lot of blood. We decided to follow it just to see what the blood was about.

We finally got sight of small 2 year old black bear and through the scope you could see the rear leg all bloody and he was barely walking.

He was put him down with a single round from a CZ-858 (which makes a big exit wound BTW) and when we got up to the bear there was a small hole in his flank.

It appeared to be tiny like a .22 sized hole so we though someone had shot him in the rump with a .22LR and no apparent exit wound. It wasn't until we actually skinned him that the damage was more apparent. The small round went into the rump, hit bone, then traveled down the leg making a decent amount of damage as it went down. So not a .22LR due to the amount of damage but a really small hole none the less. Maybe .223 or something like that?

The wound was fresh enough that it had to have happened that day.

Not a whole lot of meat on this poor guy but using up a tag was worth it to end his suffering.
 
Good to hear and good on you for doing the deed.
I wonder what the C.O.'s would of said if one was to put
the bear down and didn't have a bear tag?
 
It's the honourable and sportsman thing to do.
We had to do that back about a dozen years ago with a deer. He was dragging his back leg pretty bad. We contemplated leaving it, figuring a bear or wolves would get it soon enough. After we shot it we called the Ministry, the back end was smelling pretty ripe and had already started to rot. The Ministry didn't make us put our tag on it since we were being humane. We were totally shocked by that call but weren't going to argue it. They dug out the bullet fragments, documented the wound and left it there to be dispatched by the local critters.
 
You did the right thing. Its too bad that we sometimes have to fix the mess that other "hunters" make, but good on you. Thk
 
oh the "idiot" that shot it with .223 or 22lr is jut that and "idiot" and the sooner you loose the right to carry a gun the better it will be for the rest of us.
 
canadian hunter312 said:
is it possible that someone else was hunting in the area and was maybe in the process of tracking the animal to finish the job?
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We were hoping that but we followed the trail for about an hour (but the trail was easy to follow as a lot of it was right down the middle of a road) and there was no one around. It took us another two hours to get him out of the muskeg we tracked him into and then we field dressed him on the side of the road and was there until after dark and no one came by.

There was a camp full of people about 2km down the road (they were camping on the side of the road) and were moose hunting. Those were the only ones we seen.
 
Good on you!! That is the right thing to do.

A number of years ago, I encountered a young Bull Moose with his lower jaw shot, and hanging down.
He was in pretty bad shape, dehydrated and could hardly stand properly.

I put him down immediately amd phoned the CO about it.
He said he was about 45 mins away, so I waited for him.
When he arrived, I took him to where the moose was down.

He did not require me to cut my tag, and he took the animal with him.

Good argument against headshots.

Eagleye.
 
I would've done the same! Great sportsmanship on your part, some of us like to call themselves "hunters" and shoot at whatever they see. Mistakes happen, maybe that was one and there's a hunter somewhere kicking himself in the butt because he could not recover his bear but I know too many retards who shoot at 2-3 animals a year and don't find them...
 
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