Ricers 2013-2014 Hunting Haps and Mishaps
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Dang Don! Sorry to hear this! Hoping brighter skies and cooler temps for you tomorrow. Hoping maybe it rained hard enough and blew hard enough that the blackberries fell so them bears start hitting the bait for you tomorrow! Good luck!
Fullbore
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Short and sweet lunch report. No bear. Lots of rain. Everything in the dryer with scent free drier sheet, again. Weather supposed to clear up. Back out this afternoon.
No good yesterday afternoon guys and gals. Just waiting on my guide to pick me up this morning and getting a little late start. 13 hours a day in the stand has been kicking my a$$, literally. No not making my a$$ sore I the same way your a$$ gets sore Ric! Just teasing ya bud. Keeping a good positive attitude and I keep telling myself the biggest bear killed in his camp was killed in the last hour of the last day. Gotta stay positive! Here's a picture of the biggest hinderence to us up here, the daggone blackberries!
And this is an example of a sparse vine. And by the way I picked the vine clean and ate all these! Haha. Bears ain't getting those!!
And this is an example of a sparse vine. And by the way I picked the vine clean and ate all these! Haha. Bears ain't getting those!!
LOL Hope ya wiped the berry juice off your hands and face....they may join ya in the stand tonight!!
Well today didn't produce any bear on the game pole for me but it was by far the most exciting day I have had all week. That is good excitement not that excitement like I had the other night with the sow and two cubs. My afternoon began at 2:30 and it was windy as all get out. It wasn't one if those winds 15-20 mph out of the north west or whatever it was one of those days were the wind came out of every possible direction. Yuck. But ya can't kill em on the couch so off we go. My guide pulls out an oyster sack with a dozen donuts tied inside. So into the stand we go, its warm enough and rough enough terrain that I'm packing my Scent Lok in in my Scenttote. We make it about half way in and jump a bear or maybe a deer off the old logging road road bank. So while we let this settle down I go ahead and get my Scent Lok suit on and my harness and we head on in. I get up in my stand and Ron hangs the donut bag and I get strapped in and ready for the set. Ron gives me the thumbs up and I return it to him and my hunt begins. Around 5:30 I hear a bear crashing along the hillside below me and I'm thinking he's got to come the donut bag. It is so thick that you have to really count on your hearing and that's not too good in the wind. I watch and try to listen to see where the bear is heading but everything goes quiet and I wonder if he may have got wind if me and slipped over the hill. So everything pretty much settles back to the usual with the squirrels picking nuts and dropping them, chipmunks cleaning up scraps of bait around the barrel, and the never ending buzz of the mosquitoes in my ears. Last evening I had a bear huffing at me, which is the same thing as a deer snorting at you trying to figure you out. Ron told me they do this to check the wind for me, and other bears, and to see if there is fresh bait in the barrel. He huffed all around the bait sight last night and stayed out of range and in the edge of the deep stuff. So back to tonight. I didn't hear any huffing because it was so windy I either couldn't hear them doing it or they just weren't. But it rolls around 7:00 and the wind has pretty much laid down. I hear some steps behind me and Im thinking now we're cooking and as long as the wind don't kick up and swirl anymore we will be fine. This was the first time the entire evening that the wind actually came from just one direction, from him to me. Yes! The steps continue towards me from my behind right and I'm looking out of the corner of my eye just waiting to catch my first glimpse but he is just inside the edge of the deep stuff. FUGG! I'm thinking he will just mosey on up to an opening that leads towards the bait and that will be his demise. But, to my disappointment the steps continue right on past the opening and then about another 100 yards to the end of the thicket, where he cuts into the thicket I am setting at the end of by the bait barrel. I'm saying to myself its cool we still got time he just wanted to circle the bait a little and now he will work his way down through the thicket right to me and the bait barrel that's 21 yards from me. He does need to pic up the pace a little but as long as he doesn't mess around TOO much we still got time last light isn't until 7:45 and its 7:30 now. As I'm listening to the approaching steps again and as they get closer my grip tightens on my 1187 and my heart rate increases. But,,,, at just about 50 yards he locks down. FUGG! The clock continues to tick and the sun continues to set. 7:45 passes and no bear emerged from the thicket. I hear Ron pull in and I know he will be heading in to get me so u send him a text telling him its been a crazy night and to keep his eyes open. About 75 yards from my stand he bumps something off the side of the path and he is going to walk down to my left and grab the donut bag so I tell him about the possible bear laying out in the thicket about 50 yards from the bait barrel. He heads on down and pulls the bag down and I climb down and we head back out the old logging road and I tell him and a buddy I have met this week from Arkansas the tale of the evening. One more hunt and the weather is looking bad. Rain changing to thunderstorms in the afternoon. We will see what tomorrow brings.
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Great read and its nice you had some excitement your last hunt. Glad you're keeping the positive attitude Don, hope those TS clear out so you can at least hunt. Good luck!
Our camp did have one little bear killed yesterday and it was great to see it brought into camp by our 11 year old hunter. He was ecstatic to say the least. I didn't get anything written up on it last night because I was beat and my fingers were tired after that long winded write of my day. Haha. This little bear is the same bear I posted a pic of earlier this week that was on the bait barrel. He was 78# and a two year old boar.i was tickled to death for him and it could have been a 500# bruiser and I don't think he would have been any happier.
Congrats to Dillon!
The weather is sketchy a best today but I am gonna get back out there this afternoon and give it one last try, if at all possible.
Congrats to Dillon!
The weather is sketchy a best today but I am gonna get back out there this afternoon and give it one last try, if at all possible.
Jest getting caught up here Don, I've really enjoyed reading about the bear hunt. Good luck today man! I hope you have one of those last day, last hunt, last chance opportunities & bag a good one!!
Fullbore
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Just got done reading all your posts.Sounds like you are having fun.Bear or no bear just take the time to enjoy the whole experience.Good Luck!!
