While it was feeding I got an arrow nocked and my tab on. I looked through my trail cam pics from the night before. I looked through them many times and looked at the fight scene and recognized the loser of the fight by the growth on the rear right by the tail.
I began to compare the winner with the bear that was 15 yards from me. I decided that it was the same bear, sow or boar, it was the largest that has been here.
I weighed the fact that there was a quota set by f&g for 70 bears or 14 sows and I was torn. That's when he jumped up and alerted to the east. I quickly made a choice that I wanted to take it. I stood up, picked up my bow. The bear was broadside and looking away. The next few seconds are a bit fuzzy as I drew and released.
I am a bit disappointed in the fact that I did not have the fever shakes that I expected.
I am thankful that auto pilot took over at that point, I truly think that I cut the clump of fur I was bearing down on.
There was a loud crack, followed by a deep angry roar.
I could see the fletch side of the arrow, hanging out by about 8 inches. The bear did a 360 and bolted for the thickest and steepest part of the ridge. I heard heavy brush crashing within seconds. I then began going through my backup list on my phone.
While I was talking to my first friend I heard more crashing, and it wasn't coming from the bear I just shot.
Seconds later the other boar (with the growth on his rear) rolled in like he owned the joint.
He was foamy at the mouth and woofing in every direction. He pounded his way right under my stand and then caught the wind of the bear I just shot. He headed right for it, I was relieved to see that he was not as large as the bear I had shot, even though he had a large head and tough looking to boot. I tried to woof at him and distract him from the other bears trail to no avail. He looked at me and proceeded down the hill to confront his opponent.