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Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? laker #8811850 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon Santiam Campfire Regular
Santiam Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon	I was fairly excited when this thread started..Spring bear is my favorite time of the year...We get 2 months here in Oregon and I relish every second of it.. While sometimes entertaining,there has not been much in the way of reports and pictures, and that is to bad really..I enjoy looking at how its done in places I may never hunt or even see.. So I am going to put up some pics of springs past and hunting the central Oregon coast..There are not bears walking the beach,but we have some,and some good ones too.. I should be hunting today,but a front is moving in and I have found that rain and spring bear hunting seldom mix..In other words, forty bucks of wasted gas...LOL I don't hunt for BIG bears,but do try and take only boars.. I got this one on video..

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Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? laker #8811851 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,256 G Greenhorn Campfire Regular
Greenhorn Campfire Regular G Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,256	Tell us about booners Boxer. Also- how you know a live bear is exactly 20 years ol and how you judge a bears skull dimensions before peeling off the hide and meat.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811869 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon Santiam Campfire Regular
Santiam Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon	Before spring bear became popular,I was able to get 2 tags..One regular and one leftover...Those were great times.. Yes, I can throw a bear on him over the saddle... Last edited by Santiam; 04/26/14.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811872 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,256 G Greenhorn Campfire Regular
Greenhorn Campfire Regular G Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,256	Awesome bears! I was just looking at some OR bear photos on the rokslide forum. Mist be some good hunting - thanks for sharing.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Greenhorn #8811874 04/26/14
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 13,354 Florence, Montana M MontanaCreekHunter Campfire Outfitter
MontanaCreekHunter Campfire Outfitter M Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 13,354 Florence, Montana	Santiam cool pictures. Looks like you have done well. Eat Fish, Wear Grundens, Drink Alaskan.

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Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? T_Inman #8811883 04/26/14
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE G GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger
GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE	Maybe he'll regale us with pictures of all the other critters he's killed in "Paradise", not just the stuff he can get to in an Alaskan golf cart. You know, stuff like Mt. goats, sheep, moose, elk, caribou, or maybe even a brown colored bear or two. Nah, that won't happen! Too busy re-re-arranging his knife collection, re-re-stacking bullets, re-re-hashing the same old pictures, going full re-re-retard with Krylon, and pounding on the keyboard every time someone throws a bouncy ball his way. I know, I know....Greatwapoozy, vagina monologue, stupid do nothing pointy headed, burger flipping, couch riding, cartoon posting khhunt. Yaawwnn

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811898 04/26/14
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE G GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger
GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE	Originally Posted by Santiam That looks like an old warrior! Great pics!

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811930 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon Santiam Campfire Regular
Santiam Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon	Not tooting my own horn,but there are other people who know how to bear hunt.. Now lets get out there and kill some bears,take pics or videos, and put up some reports... Taking my daughter next weekend and hoping to get her one.. But then again,she is no stranger to killing bears either...She does need a big one though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX9hEg0VuHE

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811947 04/26/14
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker Campfire Tracker
laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	Santiam awesome pictures. Really like the goat picture with the bear legs stickin out of the pack.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811955 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon Santiam Campfire Regular
Santiam Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon	In keeping with the spirit of this forum, my new bear killer..Savage LRH in 7 mag...Haven't got to break it in yet,but 72 gr Retumbo and a 168 Berger classic is scary accurate..Of the 30 bears I seen last spring,there were none I wanted...Maybe this is the year I break it in.. And one more bear from last year...My daughters boyfriend and his best..

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Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8811958 04/26/14
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 96,040 Southern New Mexico E elkhunternm Campfire Oracle
elkhunternm Campfire Oracle E Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 96,040 Southern New Mexico	Dadgum,those are some nice bears and pretty country Santiam. Life Member SCI Life Member DSC Member New Mexico Shooting Sports Association Take your responsibilities seriously, never yourself-Ken Howell Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard Ken

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? MontanaCreekHunter #8811968 04/26/14
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 20,202 T_Inman Campfire Ranger
T_Inman Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 20,202	Originally Posted by MontanaCreekHunter Dog Hunter, salmon makes them fat but doesn't make their skulls big. Take a look at the books AZ and CA produce big skulled bears on a regular basis. So no comparing black bears from AK to bears in other places isn't dumb. It takes genetics, evironment, and food to produce a book bear. I wasn't referring to skull size. I realize CA, PA and NC have produced huge skulled bruins. I read Field and Stream! I also know that other states produce huge bodied bears too. I was simply saying from my limited experience in SE Alaska, bears are stupidly abundant and average quite a bit bigger than most other places, namely the Rockies. My comments were directed at Boxer's constant lines about anyone's else's bears barely having a hide big enough for a toilet seat or a pair of slippers.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Boxer #8812008 04/26/14
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T_Inman Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 20,202	Originally Posted by Boxer (Addendum: yet another [bleep] Window Licker) DogKchunter, Shhhhhhhh...you's going to let the cat outta da' bag,when you untap the vast and little known "Alaskan Spring Salmon Runs",which attribute commensurately in non-lineal fashion to Bear skull sizing. Laffin'! You INCREDIBLY stupid [bleep]. Now which month was this "harrowing" Training?!? As per your uncanny amount of "experience",what do a "mature bear" typically score,as per your Imagination and it's Pretend? Please dabble "particulars" on how you's able to correlate them "findings",given "all" the Bears you've "seen" in your "Life". Laffin'! PLEASE don't slight the humor of your Dumbfhukktitude,because you really are doing "great". You poor poor stupid [bleep],you'd not be able to discern a Rat from a [bleep] Cat. [bleep] WOW +P+! Laffin'! I'll tell you this,if Alaska had Spring Salmon Runs...I'd [bleep] pull the pin here on Kansas ASAP and move there myself!! Are we back to one post a day? Editing posts prior to mine to respond? BTW, every time you attempt to insult me my boner gets a little bigger. Hint: I believe it was June that I was in your neck of the woods. Maybe July...Don't totally remember as it was 10 years ago. The training wasn't "harrowing" either. It was actually kind of pathetic, but that's to be expected given I was in the Marines doing some training with the Coasties . You are living the life there for sure...I passed up a FS job in Craig a few years ago because I didn't want to sell my horses and I enjoy elk hunting too much. Not that I couldn't just come back home every year to do it. I hunt bears here too, but not very much. Never did get too into it. Haven't even attempted it yet this year. I really don't feel like skinning those stinky bastids out.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? T_Inman #8812020 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon Santiam Campfire Regular
Santiam Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon	Our bears have huge heads,but it is mostly meat with small skulls..

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8812030 04/26/14
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker Campfire Tracker
laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	Santiam do you like using your horses or goats better? I've got a couple mules but have always wondered how goats would be.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? laker #8812059 04/26/14
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon Santiam Campfire Regular
Santiam Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,543 Oregon	I don't have goats anymore,just the horse...I do make him fill in for the goats though...LOL Goats are better for straight hunting though,as long as you don't mind all the walking..While there are plenty of places you can't take your horse,there is not many that the goat can't get into..Not much care either...Load them up and turn them loose..They stay with you all day and fend for themselves..Horses are a lot of maintianence as you well know.. Goats are more of a companion animal,kinda like a dog,but can do a lot of work for you... Here is a video of the goats making a stalk on a spring bear with me...They had packed camp in and we were spending the night.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZoALLeEnC8 And a video of my horse in packgoat training on a bear hunt...LOL My wife had called worried about the horse....YIKES!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWId4GYH2k

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? Santiam #8812086 04/26/14
Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 13,921 PA moosemike Campfire Outfitter
moosemike Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 13,921 PA	Dog hunter, I think Boxer gets a three post per day limit. He's already used two of those so far today so I think he's saving one for later in case the rest of the paper hat brigade rolls in. Hence the addendums.

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? moosemike #8812097 04/26/14
Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 13,921 PA moosemike Campfire Outfitter
moosemike Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 13,921 PA	Santiam That brings a whole new meaning to "goat hunting".

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? moosemike #8812107 04/26/14
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE G GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger
GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE	Originally Posted by moosemike Dog hunter, I think Boxer gets a three post per day limit. He's already used two of those so far today so I think he's saving one for later in case the rest of the paper hat brigade rolls in. Hence the addendums. I think you just bumped [bleep] to the number two ball washer position; ooh-boy, is he gonna be pissed!

Re: Spring Bears.... who is gonna hunt ? GreatWaputi #8812120 04/26/14
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE G GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger
GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,454 OreGONE	Scratch that, I forgot he actually moved to be closer to his mancrush, so he retains the title and you're still Miss Congeniality. Wonder how the move is working out? They probably have sleepovers and get up early to watch cartoons and eat Fruity-Loops together.

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