****OFFICIAL****2024 SPRING BEAR THREAD

[stew]

If anybody knows a houndsmen in the Council, ID area, I could really use a hand. My wife shot at a good bear tonight and we're not sure if she hit it, but it got dark on us. We could really use some dogs tomorrow if anybody is available

So what ended up happening did you find the bear.

 

[grizzly_]

So what ended up happening did you find the bear.

Yep

 

[Sask hunter]

One of the rare nights I haven’t hunted when the wind has been good for my stand and the sneaky SOB strolled through in broad daylight

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Congrats to Mrs Sasky. He’s a tank!

 

[Muskeez]

Great bear Mrs. grizzly_ ! Do we get to hear the story? Bait or S&S? Did you find some hounds to help or was he laying just over the next hill? Congrats to both of you!

 

[grizzly_]

Great bear Mrs. grizzly_ ! Do we get to hear the story? Bait or S&S? Did you find some hounds to help or was he laying just over the next hill? Congrats to both of you!

It was just S&S and we had hunted five days without seeing a bear before she shot at this one Monday night. It didn't appear to be hit (roll down the mountain, like bears do, or bite at the shot, etc...) but, obviously, if you pull the trigger, you need to do everything you can to find the animal or make 100% certain it was a clean miss. That's why I was hoping to find dogs.

However, we couldn't find any hounds on short notice and a work day, so yesterday morning we went back to where she shot from and took pictures so we would be able to look for blood in the exact right spots that we knew the bear had run. Once we got to the place we knew the bear had been, we were carefully picking our way through the rocks looking for blood and looked up and the bear was feeding exactly where he had been the night before, tearing up an old stump.

One quick shot and she had him, so it turned out great!

 

[Muskeez]

Wow, talk about a gift! Congrats!

 

[INMT]

That’s an awesome story. Goes to show, if you do the right thing good things happen! Congrats!

It was just S&S and we had hunted five days without seeing a bear before she shot at this one Monday night. It didn't appear to be hit (roll down the mountain, like bears do, or bite at the shot, etc...) but, obviously, if you pull the trigger, you need to do everything you can to find the animal or make 100% certain it was a clean miss. That's why I was hoping to find dogs.

However, we couldn't find any hounds on short notice and a work day, so yesterday morning we went back to where she shot from and took pictures so we would be able to look for blood in the exact right spots that we knew the bear had run. Once we got to the place we knew the bear had been, we were carefully picking our way through the rocks looking for blood and looked up and the bear was feeding exactly where he had been the night before, tearing up an old stump.

One quick shot and she had him, so it turned out great!

 

[Khunter]

It was just S&S and we had hunted five days without seeing a bear before she shot at this one Monday night. It didn't appear to be hit (roll down the mountain, like bears do, or bite at the shot, etc...) but, obviously, if you pull the trigger, you need to do everything you can to find the animal or make 100% certain it was a clean miss. That's why I was hoping to find dogs.

However, we couldn't find any hounds on short notice and a work day, so yesterday morning we went back to where she shot from and took pictures so we would be able to look for blood in the exact right spots that we knew the bear had run. Once we got to the place we knew the bear had been, we were carefully picking our way through the rocks looking for blood and looked up and the bear was feeding exactly where he had been the night before, tearing up an old stump.

One quick shot and she had him, so it turned out great!

Great outcome. Did it end having been hit the night before or was that prior shot a miss? Just curious.

 

[grizzly_]

Great outcome. Did it end having been hit the night before or was that prior shot a miss? Just curious.

Clean miss

 

[stew]

Yep

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wow good deal beautiful bear congrats to your wife and your self.

 

[Sask hunter]

This one was tempting tonight

 

[MTLabrador]

 

[Sask hunter]

Jeez I’m going to have to put him on a diet!

 

[elkhnter]

Saskatchewan
Shot him later last night and recovered this morning. Was brutal getting him out.

 

[Sask hunter]

Saskatchewan
Shot him later last night and recovered this morning. Was brutal getting him out.View attachment 327254

What made it so brutal getting him out

 

[elkhnter]

Spruce and alders. Went into the thickest stuff he could find.

 

[Muskeez]

Great bear elkhunter, Congrats!

 

[daltrix99]

Another bruin hit the ground for us! We backpacked deep into big nasty country for this one. Probably could have held out for an older boar, but this was my buddy's first bear, and a great first bear at that! Especially with the context of a true backcountry expedition.

 

[Sask hunter]

New bear in this morning. He would be hard to pass waiting for that big black one