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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