Well, we got a good dose of rain over the weekend. The temps dropped, makes me antsy for season to get here. We open the 1st and I have to be in Pittsburgh on the 5th for a week, so I would get too worked up until I get back. That’s about prime time in our area. Come on first frost!
was 41 degrees out yesterday morning! Man did it feel like fall. Still patiently waiting for the start of our bow opener!
50 here this morning but they’re calling for it to ramp back up to the mid 80s on Saturday. Gonna be doing some final prep work this week: shooting a few arrows, washing camo, gathering gear.
I think I’m done heading out to check cameras. I have a climber I’ve never used before might start practicing with that now it’s cooler. Still seems like it will be an eternity until the 1st gets here. Sent from my iPad using Bowhunting.com Forums
It was 52 at the house this morning. Too bad that the season don't open until next weekend. I pulled the cards yesterday. I need to move a few cameras around. The deer have changed their patterns.
BEAR DOWN went to check cameras before work and threw the .308 over the shoulder before walking out the door and shot one at 30 yards not 150 yards behind my house and it ran 20 yards and piled up. PUMPED (photos soon!)
So woke up this morning and was suppose to have a meeting before my first PE class of the day at 11am, but last second the meeting was called out. That gave me two hours with nothing to urgent needing to happen so I chose to head back to the house and check a few cameras there to burn the time and had a nice wind to do so without blowing everything out there on the way in. Decided since its bear season might as well carry the rifle while I check quick but knowing I have no time to deal with a bear at this moment. It was 53 degrees out, overcast and wet out rather than the 81 and humid as all hell its been the last two weeks so I was excited I wouldn't sweat while hiking to my cameras. stepped out the door of my house and looked up into some golden rods, brush and young pines that lay 150 yards behind the house, I check this cut out of habit more than anything, never seen a bear right there, but peak up and I see a bear feeding up that thick cut of golden rods. I instantly cut back down around the house 200 plus yards to stay up wind of it and to get above this bear so I can play the terrian better and cut this bear off, maybe even get a shot off! get above where I see it last not 50 yards from where I seen it at first and while peaking to my right I catch golden rods tipping over (the photos show the height of them and what I was catching glimpses of this bear through) and see a bear working through not 35 yards away from me. Turned the scope down to "3", and clicked the safety off and pulled up on it, it was staring right at me at about 20 yards at this point, peering through a bush picking me off. I set the crosshairs on its throat and let the .308 fly, it takes two hard push offs to Run to its right and piles up within 20 yards, never moving or making a sound again. FINALLY, my first black bear has hit the dirt! Luckily it was cool out today and raining so I dragged it into the thicks better and laid a coat and ratchet strap I had on me, to keep my scent there and dogs away from it if they came smelling, and headed to work, on time at that! Once school got out was able to finish the job I had started. Off to the butchers tomorrow for my sausage and steaks and then the taxidermist by the end of the week! 157lb Sow - tooth being sent in but assume she will be a 2 - 2 1/2 year old Taxidermy bill lays ahead!
Dude 802!! That is very cool to kill a bear! Congrats. I have never been Bear hunting. I bet that was a huge rush when that Bear was only 20-30 yards away. Awesome! You are the first to draw blood on our team. Now we just need to get a deer down Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Always a great rush chasing bear around the hills! The last few years the population has increased a fair amount making it even more enjoyable in the state seeing they give you a bear tag when you purchase your rifle tags for the year anyways. And, 5$ for an early bear tag which is the month of September! Can't beat 5$ wild game freezer meat!! Seen a handful or so the last couple years usually are Cubs, a sow with Cubs or it's going 100mph by me with no clear ethical shot oppurtunity. Today it finally came together though, when I was least expecting it.
Congrats on the bear 802, thats awesome. You guys talking about cool temps is making me jealous. Still in the 80s and humid in Delaware.
