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My 17 year old daughter has been hunting hard with me for black bear for the last few years. She has had the worst luck. Spot and stalk bears in our neck of the woods is a time game and she has definitely put in the time. Just not enough of it apparently. I’ve killed a few but always when I was out alone. Friday she says to me: Dad, I’ll even kill a little bear. I just want to find one. I laughed and said that’s what you told me last fall before we hunted whitetails and you killed a toad. It’s been cold and not the best bear hunting weather, and it’s early, but the sun was out Monday night when I got home from work. She was washing her truck in the driveway when I pulled in and I said tonight is the night do you want to go? She jumped at the chance. There are little south facing meadows I check this time of year that just start to green up earlier than anything else. We hiked in, checked the first one and bumped a little bear off of the meadow. You can make a mistake approaching a lot of game in my experience. A black bear in high density grizzly country is not one of them. They don’t even hesitate or look at noise. Any noise. They just bolt. We continued to check other spots and then looped back to check this same meadow an hour or so later picking a better route in. Sure enough there was a bear on it but with the size of the meadow and heavy timber and undergrowth I just knew it was black. It took 20 minutes to work our way to within 50 yards of him. By now I knew he was a good one. As good as this area produces. She got a rest leaning against a tree and when he cleared the trees he was feeding around she shot him. He went 25 yards.
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Congrats to you and your daughter, Chuck!
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Cool deal! Congrats to you guys.......great pics!
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Very well done and told!! Congrats to the both of you!
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Good job dad on that girl and that bear. Double trophy day for you.
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Nice all around Congrats to both of ya'll!
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pathfinder76; Good afternoon sir, I hope the rest of life on your side of the big hills is going as well as the hunt did!
Hearty congratulations to your daughter on that good sized black bear!
I'll send you a tip of the hat too for putting in the time and effort to make the hunt happen.
As a fellow father of daughters who hunt, I might have an inkling of what it all means to you and that's wonderful as well.
Thanks for sharing the story and photos with us.
All the best to you all.
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Excellent! Love stories like this.
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What did she shoot him with? S.
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What did she shoot him with? S. A Kimber Montana 308 with 150gr Hornady’s.
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congrats to both of ya'll
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Congrats! That's a beautiful Bear. Y'all did well.
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I really like where I am. I get a bigger kick out of my god-children getting a deer or elk than killing one myself. GOOD ON YOU TWO.
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That is fantastic! Beautiful bear! Well done by her and congrats to the both of you.
You gotta love seeing your kids have hunting success.
She going to a rug or anything?
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Very cool!
Congrats to you both!
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Thats awesome. Good job Chuck!
Why pack all that messy meat out of the bush when we can just go to the grocery store where meat is made? Hell,if they sold antlers I would save so much money I could afford to go Dolphin fishing. Maybe even a baby seal safari.
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