MT DIY Spring Bear 12'

ceby7

ceby7

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MT DIY Spring Bear '12

Well, I just got back from a successful spring bear hunt. We hunted 8 days, saw 16 bears (5 grizzlies) and ended up taking the biggest bear we saw.

My dad spotted this bear at the mouth of a canyon where I had went after a big black one two days prior. He watched him until dark and the next morning I found him within 200 yards of where he had last seen him. I was able to put a stalk on him and got within 240 yds. One shot from my Sako .270 Win., he ran about 15 yds. and piled up. Pack out was all downhill!

He's a beautiful light reddish brown colored bear with awesome hair. We roughly squared him at 6ft. He might stretch a little though.

I know it's not a very good picture, but here is one of the grizzlies we saw. This is a BIG bear.

I love spring bear hunting!
 
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Drelk

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I think you shot my bear:)). Just kidding. Wrong state

The bear you killed is my dream bear. I will get a full lifesize if I get anything close to that beast

Congrats
 
Montana

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Ceby7... So I just read your story. I wouldn't consider myself a pro at bear hunting but I do have a few under my belt. You mentioned you harvested him in the morning. I have never done so, is this a common hunting style for you or did you only hunt the morning because you had spotted him so late in the evening? Just curious.
 
ceby7

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Montana said:
You mentioned you harvested him in the morning. I have never done so, is this a common hunting style for you or did you only hunt the morning because you had spotted him so late in the evening? Just curious.
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Actually the morning is my favorite time to hunt bears. I always start glassing at first light and glass hard until about 10 or 11 depending on the weather. If I can spot a good bear in the AM it gives me time to put a stalk on him, whereas if I spot bears in the evening I usually don't have time to get to them before dark (where we hunt we can glass a long ways and there's normally some serious elevation gain to get to them). Not to say I don't glass in the evenings, I glass just as hard from about 4PM on, but if I spot one, like the one I got, I try and put myself where I last saw them the next morning. I just hate going to sleep hoping and praying he's still gonna be there in the AM!!
 
Montana

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ceby7 said:
Actually the morning is my favorite time to hunt bears. I always start glassing at first light and glass hard until about 10 or 11 depending on the weather. If I can spot a good bear in the AM it gives me time to put a stalk on him, whereas if I spot bears in the evening I usually don't have time to get to them before dark (where we hunt we can glass a long ways and there's normally some serious elevation gain to get to them). Not to say I don't glass in the evenings, I glass just as hard from about 4PM on, but if I spot one, like the one I got, I try and put myself where I last saw them the next morning. I just hate going to sleep hoping and praying he's still gonna be there in the AM!!
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It's good to know... For me it's just so tough on a multiple day hunt to be out until 10~10:30, then back at camp 11~11:30, dinner then in bed by 12~12:30 and then back up again at 4am to be glassing by 5am. Just burns me out with the long summer/June days. But it's all good... Thats why i love hunting, little different for everyone!!

Nice work... I head on my trip June 2nd.
 
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