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Author Topic: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day  (Read 17410 times)

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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #40 on: September 04, 2018, 05:07:37 PM »
DAMN!...NOW WERE HUNTIN!... :thumbsup:  :coffee:
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #41 on: September 04, 2018, 05:16:47 PM »
im giddy with anticipation.....one question:   how do you move around quietly with those big brass ba@& of yours!!!!
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #42 on: September 04, 2018, 07:27:41 PM »
Dang brother, I'm livin this along with you. Thanks for sharing because I will never get the opportunity.
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Offline South MS Bowhunter

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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #43 on: September 04, 2018, 07:37:50 PM »
Reading this as i'm nursing a headache, but thinking of you alone for eight days in Grizzly country is not helping a stress induced headache! :scared: :biglaugh:
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Offline Tradtical Commando

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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #44 on: September 04, 2018, 07:38:32 PM »
Ahhhh I was drooling reading this. Ready for an update!  :jumper:
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #45 on: September 04, 2018, 08:26:07 PM »
Timo,  I could see his big "hunchback" sticking up above the willows in the video.  Thanks for taking us along-I can only imagine what hunting grizzlies would be like...

South MS - I feel your pain with those headaches- hang in there.
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #46 on: September 04, 2018, 08:39:49 PM »
Coilspring, thanks for the kind regards!  Say a prayer for me my Brothers/Sisters :pray:  Thinking of Tim alone with Grizzlies, while i'm in the midst of a Hurricane, with two wild grandchildren is not aiding in recovery of the headache!

Keep the story and pic's coming...
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #47 on: September 04, 2018, 09:06:32 PM »
He ever so slowly dug & fed his way toward the far end of the willow bar.
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I packed up, and headed upwind a bit to cross where there were several channels, making the water shallow enough to just barely go over my knee high boots.
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Crossed slowly and quietly.  Got up on the gravel and starting looking-looking for the bear.
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Ended up stepping up onto the willow bar from the gravel, just a foot or 2 of elevation.
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Was swiveling my head from say 9 o'clock to 1 o'clock, nothing.  Then I turned to about 4 o'clock and boom there he was, his butt sticking out of the willows maybe 60 yards away.
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #48 on: September 04, 2018, 09:11:17 PM »
I spied a couple dry channels that wound their way thru the willows, that would help me get close quietly.
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Dropped down into one, lost sight of the bear, but angled that way, slow & quiet.
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Came around a corner and there he was at about 20 yards. He looked like a Jeep Wrangler (2 door !) at that distance and a little above me.
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Could of shot, but the window in the brush was tight, very steep quartering away, and I wanted to get closer.
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #49 on: September 04, 2018, 09:15:30 PM »
Real slow now I went further down the dry channel.
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The brush was thinning between me and him.  In fact I now realized there was another dry (muddy) channel between us, and not much else.
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Suddenly I was out of cover and the bear was nearly broadside and very very close.
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I quickly drew my bow and shot.
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And all hell broke loose at 13 yards.
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #50 on: September 04, 2018, 09:22:03 PM »
“And all hell broke loose at 13 yards”

YIKES!!!!!!!!

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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #51 on: September 04, 2018, 09:44:05 PM »
 :scared: :campfire:
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #52 on: September 04, 2018, 09:48:26 PM »
I wonder if this is where he changed his pants lol
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #53 on: September 04, 2018, 09:56:22 PM »
 :scared:   :help:
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #54 on: September 04, 2018, 10:00:52 PM »
Awesome stuff!!!!! :campfire:
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #55 on: September 04, 2018, 10:20:20 PM »
I don't know if I'd be brave enough to do this by myself. Incredible story!
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #56 on: September 04, 2018, 10:32:11 PM »
Holy Cow! My chest is thumpin....It take a pair to make this sneak!!
I can’t imagine......
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #57 on: September 04, 2018, 10:54:24 PM »
That’s it I quit! I can’t take it! I told myself just wait a few days and let him finish the story then read it but of course I couldn’t! Hoky smokes! I’m on the edge of my seat like I’m there myself! Love it! Your a madman!
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #58 on: September 04, 2018, 10:56:12 PM »
This is amazing. And you're insane.
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Re: Into a willow bar with a grizzly bear on a fall day
« Reply #59 on: September 04, 2018, 11:01:00 PM »
Quote from: TomMcDonald on September 04, 2018, 10:56:12 PM
This is amazing. And you're insane.

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