Day 2..... we pack more bait and get to the stand at 5:29 am. When we get into the stand we check the camera cards and realize there was a bear there at 5:28 am.
Day 2 is a little warmer but i was excited and optimistic!! Around 9:00 a cowboy comes through our area and is hooting and hollering doing a round up of his cows. There is a big valley just to the south of us and he works the whole valley just a hooting and hollering the whole way! We know there isn't going to be any action for a long time.
Around 11:00 my brother has to climb down and head back to town to do a few things at work. So i sit it out the rest of the day by myself. Around 6:30 I'm starting to think it's not going to happen today!! I whisper a little prayer and not 15 seconds later I hear something to my right. I look and Not 10 ft from the stand is a bear coming off the hill behind me and almost straight down wind. I guess the thermals are carrying my scent high enough she couldn't smell me!
She proceeds to the bait and when she clears the tree to the right she stops and turns and looks straight up at me!! ( pretty dang sure it makes the same bear from the night before)
I can tell it's nervous . Shes perfectly broadside and starts to get a bite and I begin to draw. She hears the slight noise from my jacket and turns and looks at me again and twitches and almost runs off but hunger/gluttony overrides her instincts and she stretches her head back out to grab that bite she's wanting and I get to full draw just as she gets a chunk of fat in her mouth ! To late!!!! The arrow Strikes about a half inch from a piece of grass I was aiming at on her side !!! She whirls and is off with my string tracker trailing behind! About 5 seconds later it all stops! No noise, no string coming from my tracker, nothing!!
Then I hear two very low groans more like a soft growl and I know it's all over!! I lift my hands to the sky with my bow in my left hand and thank God for what just happened! Then I began to shake with adrenaline and I'll admit I even got a little emotional!!
I climb down and go to my bear with tons of adrenaline and emotions going thru my body!!
I got to thank my brother, nephew, and cousin for all they did to make this possible!! But more importantly I gotta thank God for the ability, the opportunity, and the privilege to be able to do the things I love in his wonderful creation that he made for us to enjoy!
Now enough blabbing.. here's some pics !!
Sorry for all the links.. I don't have the capability to post pics from my phone.
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