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Congrats to everyone else who got their bears as well. Keep the stories coming.... I want to see more colour.
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OK, I actually have a big double chunk scoop of chocolate
This fine brown beauty was my best friend at Stickflingers this week.
Every time I saw her, she had a different suitor.
Most of the time she was happy with the male bears...only one time did she try to climb the fallen tree my stand used for cover to get cozy with me. I lost my nerve at 6 feet and stood up.
That is the beauty of Ryan's area. A bear this big and perfect would be shot immediately in most bear camps. Here she was safe to breed. I was much more interested to see who she kept looking over her shoulder for.
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Everything went well with the shot. I saw it flick right thru just behind his shoulder about halfway up the body. He let out a roar and launched himself in the direction he was facing. There was a lot of crashing for a few seconds as I could see nothing in the thick cover. Then I heard 4 or 5 very loud death moans. What a relief.
I sat for a half hour and then went out to get some help. I was not going to be dragging this bear out by myself if I did not have to.
Here is how I found him when Ryan and I came back to track:
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I hunted a setup station called Determination. I never got to hunt it last year, but the guys that did saw dozens of bears. This year there was a report of multiple bears, but at least two sows with three cubs each. At first I was excited to hunt this bait, but knowing that sows with cubs can be protective and run other reseptive sows off the bait made me apprehensive. I only saw one bear during the first 3 days. That's hunting to me. On day four, the sow finally came in with three cubs so I had something to watch and film. Then at about 7:45 I saw a big boar coming in from behind the bait, the problem was I move the stand to behind the bait to have a better wind as well. He was coming in at a steep angle. He was long and very tall!!! As he got within 15 yards from the tree, an ATV drove by on a near-by trail and scared him away. I think he came back with another bear right at dark, but it was getting too late to judge and he never came into the clear. The follwing day I saw the same sow and cubs along with a cinnanon boar, a young sow, and another boar that was a six footter, but rubbed. Then the boar ran off, the cubs were already up a tree 25 yards away on my left, and their mother was on the right side of the bait about 20 yards in the brush, so I knew something else was comming. The cubs huffed a little, but went sielent when the new bear was under them. At first I saw leggs, then a huge long tall form moving steady through the back of the bait station in the direction of the sow. Previously I poured sow-in-heat lure down her back as she came in under my stand. I don't think it had much of an effect, but you never know. Ha! As the big boar cleared two trees behind the bait, I made a perfect shot and he stopped after a brief 20 yards. The 67 # TT bow just felt good that evening. I was lucky to take the bear on the 5th day, ten minutes before the end of legal shooting, on DEtermination Stand. I had a choice to hunt another stand that I knew had at least 5 other bears on it, but I stuck with my orriginal plan, much to the joy of David my guide. Ha! Ryan has a good spot, but is an even better host. Thanks, Mike
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I am pretty sure everybody knows how I love my TallTines. I love this one over all of the others put together. I have taken one of Brian's fine tools and turned it into an ugly beast with camo dipping and a plastic quiver. A plastic quiver which BW actually threatend to rip off the bow and stomp on it till it was powder in the rocks I fill that quiver with a mishmash of carbon and aluminum cladded carbon arrows. Arrows fletched with feathers and arrows fletch with vanes. There is a (gasp) elevated rest on it. But I have more confidence in that bow than I have in myself. It goes on every trip I make, even if it is a backup to one of the gorgeous TTs in the stable, because I know I can put it together and it will kill whatever I need it too for any reason.
After spending time with Larry Hannify and watching him build the Abowyer heads, I cannot see any reason to use another 2 blade. The quality just oozes off of them. The Brown Bears I am using now are precison flying scapels. Truly one of the finest pieces of equiptment I have ever found. I have big plans for some of the big Whitetail heads Larry makes for this fall.
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Here is another shot at my bear where recovered. Sorry about jumping into your story Steve. I type slow. Posts: 1234 | From: Illinois | Registered: Oct 2004
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My best scoop of chocolate. A mature black bear.
He squared just a fraction over 7 feet and weighed 312#.
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Mike, do not worry about jumping in this is OUR story. Folks will figure it out
I am always happy to share camp with you and all of the TallTines/Professional Bowhunters Society guys. You know the hunt is going to be good when you hang out with people like that whether we bring home the animal we are looking for or not.
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Gotta love the colour in Manitoba, Congrats on a fine chocolate Steve.
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I fill that quiver with a mishmash of carbon and aluminum cladded carbon arrows. Arrows fletched with feathers and arrows fletch with vanes. There is a (gasp) elevated rest on it. But I have more confidence in that bow than I have in myself. It goes on every trip I make, even if it is a backup to one of the gorgeous TTs in the stable, because I know I can put it together and it will kill whatever I need it too for any reason.
