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I can't wait....cabin fever is at an all time high!

Let's see some pics!

This is a Montana Blackie from 2011, spot and stalk.

We will probably go a few days... Fun time of year, but success has been low for us.. But we don't hit it that hard any more.. Nice black..

Nice bear and pic. I wish I could get after them this spring, but it won't be happening this year. Bears skunked me 3yrs ago in MT and it's about time for a rematch; hopefully soon.

It's all about timing...this spring might be a bit later than usual with heavy snowpack. Normal prime time for most of Montana seems to be from May 10th through the 20th.

That is a great bear.

Wish we had a spot and stalk spring season here as I'm overrun with them.

That's a dandy bear. I killed my last black bear the last season it was legal to bait here in Colorado. That was voted out along with hunting them with dogs. We only have a fall season for bear now. I'd rather hunt turkeys in spring.

It’s cool when the weather is shiitty up Glasgow, we get to see cool pics... grin

laffin' A guy can only reload so much ammo....spring can't get here soon enough.... meanwhile, more pics coming........;)

Keep them coming Scenar, sure been enjoying all the pictures you have been posting. And yes cabin fever is brutal about now:) I'll be trying to find a bear late next month, depending on the weather, although I'm not much of a bear hunting expert

Most of my bears were killed pre-digital days, so I really don't have too many pictures available to post on here. They're quite a drive from where I live now to hunt them, so I don't really chase them much anymore. I do have a hound hunter friend in Idaho I like going along with, but I haven't been interested in shooting one lately.

Here's a cub that wouldn't leave my mom's back pasture last Nov. He drug a dead deer to the base of the tree and would feed on it for a while, then climb back up. I have no idea where momma was, nor whether he went to bed for the winter or died.


Here's the last one I killed.....and was 100% convinced he was a really GOOD bear. Man was I surprised when I climbed down to him and saw he was a "grown" cub. It was rather embarrassing checking him in. I guess the shadows were playing tricks on me cause I watched him for several minutes making sure he was legal. I ended up giving the hide to a biology high school teacher.

Nice bear, Scenarshtr.

I'm in for 3 BB hunts this year. May in the north Wyoming Bighorns, again. August on the Olympic Peninsula, again and December in North Carolina, deer/black bear combo (again for deer). I just need to live long enough to enjoy all of this stuff.

Toot you gonna hunt the Rez up on the pennisula

If the timing is right I'll drive out and meet up with my son who lives in Boz and get after them.......

nice bears guys!

Montana, 2010

Wyoming, 2010



Skinning him the next day. Tough hunt that almost killed me...

Dam thats a big Black Bear! Iv killed 3 up in Ca. I realy would like to take Color Phase Bear one day! saw a Big Blond up in Ska. but didnt get a shot! was useing a 44-77 Balard rifle!

My best one, taken in 2015 in Montana. Taken with my .260 with one shot to the chest at a little over 300 yards.

7'+ hide, with a 21 2/16" skull after the 60 day drying period. Gut buster stalk that I barley completed before he got into the timber. I got him to stop and look my way by giving a little voice howl. I didn't want to shoot while he was walking. No time to range, and out of breath, I had to wing it. When I fired, he was in the timber instantly. He didn't go far, and was wedged in some scrub sub alpine trees. My pal was on the other side of the canyon watching the whole thing with a spotting scope.

Did not draw a tag for the spring hunt, but we will still go and hang out in the hills for a week or so.

2012, Mt cinnamon blackie. Semi-custom 284, 140-gr TTSX. About 150 yards. Blood mark is the entrance; exit was just in front of the right fron leg.

Some great bears.

Been trying to kill this guy for a few years.



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