Oregon Spring Bear Down

[arrowslinger21]

Went out this last weekend for some bear hunting action here in Oregon. It was my buddies first ever bear hunt, and we ended up taking a pretty nice one. i am estimating his live weight between 250 and 275, and he has an absolutely beautiful coat on him. Pictures and the entire story as to how the whole trip played out is up on my blog at the link below. Had a great time, and couldn't have asked for a better result in getting a great friend a great

 

[twp1224]

Great looking bear and a great story to go with it. Congrats!

 

[sjsmallfield]

Nice bear!!! Can't wait to try for one myself this coming fall.

 

[Skybuster1329]

Nice Bear. Getting ready to go in a week.

 

[Joe Hulburt]

It's not very often somebody posts a blatant account of poaching on the internet. In case you didn't know arrowslinger, here in Oregon it is illegal to shoot a big game animal if you don't have a tag which clearly you didn't based on your blog. I really doubt that the Eastmans developed this forum for you to boast about poaching.

It's really a bummer as that would have been a nice bear to hunt legally.

 

[elkmtngear]

Congrats, nice bear with a beautiful coat! You guys earned that one!

Best of Luck,
Jeff

 

[Joe Hulburt]

This bear was taken with a tag and was hunted legally and with fair chase. I know this went all around the internet last night, and most of the posts got taken down by the other forums, but it really would be nice if people would ask a question or two before making assumptions and claims when no one making the claims was there. I am posting the picture of the tag on my blog as well, which was punched on site. We worked our @$$ off for this bear, and I would have not posted the story to incriminate myself. If we wanted to poach a bear we would shot the first one we saw that had two cubs and that was 5 miles closer to the truck.

There was ONE tag and three shooters. That is poaching. But hey, I'm glad you didn't shoot the one with cubs.

EDIT - I see you edited out the part where you and your buddy (also without a tag) both shot and hit the bear in additon to the guy with the tag. Now it was a one shot kill. Wow! Nice job....

 

[IL Hntr]

Great story and a beautiful bear. Congrats!!

 

[Joe Hulburt]

If you don't get a ticket from OSP I guess I will owe you an apology Kevin. I've never in my life heard of a case where three guys went out packing rifles and shooting at a bear to fill one tag and they got away with it. Seems really strange to me! I've taken 12 year olds out to kill bears and it NEVER occurred to me to be packing a rifle if I had no tag.

 

[JNDEER]

Also I will just add one more thing before I will be done with this thread. I have shot 4 bears myself out of the same area, all with valid tags, and I guided my brother to his first bear last when I also had a valid tag, but did not shoot at the bear as it was not needed. I felt no need going into the hunt to get my turn on a bear, and I only did what came as a necessary reaction in a very fast moving situation. I will answer to anyone that I need to for my actions, as I am man enough to accept what I deemed necessary. It has been an interesting couple of days with this topic, but I am now moving on from it as far as this thread goes. Thanks everyone for all the comments both positive and negative on the situation.

Hope you have a quide license!

Seriously, I know that you meant you "helped" your brother get a bear (at least I hope so), but you should be careful what you post on the internet.