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Prairie blaster didn't blast !!!
By: Prairie blaster Date: September 21, 2013, 6:18 pm
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7:00 am after a two and a half hour drive to the Rocky Mountain
Front.
We get out of the truck and hike up to a small, close
clearing, Still mostly on the flats. My boy and I do a little
quick glassing. My boy spots a bear very quickly , Crap, I look
and see the same thing, a bear. There was a few Angus in the
area but it WAS a bear. It was way up right next to the "Front",
about a mile and a quarter, up a alder filed draw. It was WET
,must have rained buckets the night before, but clear and a
giant full moon today. We worked our way up using the alders and
terrain between us and him. The brush was so wet our clothing
would wick water in to our boot. We had to stop once and poor
the water out of our water poof boots. It was the perfect storm
to stalk. Everything was wet and quiet, the wind was in our face
and the sun was just coming up at our backs. We lost sight of
the bear for the last 20 minutes or so we hoped he would still
be in shootable range when we poked out head up. AND HE WAS!
Standing heading slightly away from us and way to close, under
50 yards, more like 35. There was nothing between us and the
bear. After a three and a half hour stalk we ASSUMED it would
have moved a little ,so we had stalked to the last spot we saw
it at. There was a split second the bear and my boy and myself
just looked at each other, not nearly long enough to get the gun
up and ready for a still shot. It bolted. This bear was a toad,
teeny tiny ears on top of a Giant Pumpkin head, Shiny jet black
with a white blaze on its wide chest, Long shaggy thick hear, a
belly nearly dragging the ground, and an ass as big as a Buick.
One would never guess how FAST it got going and looked like he
could out run an antelope. There was only 50 or 60 yard to the
alders and that just where he was going. We tried to get on him
with the scopes and it never happened. He vanished in to the
tangle we had just pushed through ,without a sound. C.R.A.P. !
The biggest bear I have EVER hunted just ran past me and I never
fired a shot. We hunted the alders till almost dark then walked
out empty handed. I did get him on the gopro, I looked out in
the field but, I'll have to work on the video to get it to be
seen better.
ONE Big black bear !!!
Oh I forgot to tell you, On the way in we had a heard of elk
standing in the road. About 15 cows two six point bulls and a
HUGE 7x7. The cows where tying to get out of the road by jumping
the tall bear proof fences , without much success. The smaller
bulls , if you call two 6x6 elk small, were trying to breed them
when they got slowed by the fence, and the BIG boy trying to
keep them away. He would stand in front of us in the head lights
and bugle , snort , and stomp. After four or five minutes this
circus made their way over the fence and in to the alfalfa field
and disappeared in to the dark.
WOW! the camera would not take a picture, to dark, I have 20
black pictures.
ONLY here, man!!!
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Re: Prairie blaster didn't blast !!!
By: Bwana J Date: September 22, 2013, 8:03 am
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Even tho you guys didn't get the shot you were looking for I'd
say your outing was successful. Saw a great bear and a bunch of
Elk and got to spend time in the outdoors together, priceless.
Congrats on a nice outing and thanks for sharing. Oh ya, just
tell everyone the black pictures were close-ups of the bear ;) .
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Re: Prairie blaster didn't blast !!!
By: Matmbaman Date: December 20, 2018, 10:42 pm
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