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Way to go Luke and Becca! You two need your own tv show!
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Fantastic job!
Congrats to your wife and you.
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What a great bear. Lady's got nerves of steel!
Congrats to you both!
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Very cool in so many different ways. Thanks for sharing. Good break from politics etc.The real work begins with the beast on the ground. How did things go after the big guy hit dirt? I'd love to do this with the bride, but I'm not sure she's up to it.
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Nice bear and congrats to your wife.
What were your dates there?
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308s are magic on bears for some reason!
Good job
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Stunt shooting! How could she dare shoot a bear with a short action cartridge!?!?!
Very, very nice!
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I'm not susprised. When you consider that before outdoor writers infected most sportsmen with magnumits the 30/06 was the standard caliber for hunting in Alaska and a lot of the rest of the world.
Of course beck in those days Americans were marksmen. Sounds like your wife still is a fine shot too.
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Out-freaking-standing!!! Congrats to your better half! Great bear. And shot it with a what? That can't possibly be right - nearly everything I've read says you need a minimum of................................ 
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Top notch! Thanks for the pic.
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Thanks for sharing the results of your very successful hunt! Proof once again that on an unsuspecting bear a well-located shot of sufficient caliber will do the job. Congratulations on a fine hunt.
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Damn Luke, congrats to Becca! Was she using the protected point partitions? Is this the RL17 loads you were posting over at Aod a couple years ago? That is a hell of a bear!
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That is very cool!
When my kiddo gets home from school I am going to show her your wife's bear. She shot her first elk last December with her .308. A one shot kill.
This story will simply reinforce what I have been telling her, that the rifle we built her will serve her for a lifetime.
A big congratulations to your bride!
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Got stopped on the Richardson Highway for roadwork a few years ago. Lone, young lady way out in the middle of no where doing the flagging. We had a half-hour wait and she proceeded to whip out her phone to show us a picture of her Kodiak bear she had just shot. The young guy with me was raised in Kodiak so she got a kick out of the whole thing.
Unlike Becca though it was her first big game hunt!
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Oh, and it was not as big...
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Oh, and it was not as big... That's what SHE said Art. But I'll bet you get that a lot.  Bwahahaha. Sorry, got up too early this morning!
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Got stopped on the Richardson Highway for roadwork a few years ago. Lone, young lady way out in the middle of no where doing the flagging. We had a half-hour wait and she proceeded to whip out her phone to show us a picture of her Kodiak bear she had just shot. The young guy with me was raised in Kodiak so she got a kick out of the whole thing.
Unlike Becca though it was her first big game hunt! We've had some cool conversations at construction zones, assuming the boss doesn't show up and chew the flaggers for talking to the drivers.... LOL. I figured the one time it was nuts, we were first in line stopped and the gal had about 6 other vehicles behind us stopped... what harm was talking.
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