Went out hunting with a friend of mine the past few days. On day one we were up early (of course) , hunted all morning, spotted a dozen or so doe`s but no bucks, so we headed back for lunch, and tried our luck again for an afternoon hunt. We spotted a couple bears in a open slash mid afternoon, being opertunistic I took the closest, one on the side of the slash near a ravine, canyon. One bear still remianed 3-4 hundread yards above it. I stalked in to about 70 yards, it was very dry and bear heard me and stood up. I should have popped him then but I waited, he dropped down so I hurried along and he was closer to the ravine, canyon (you see where this is going). I was above him and had a better broadside shot but he was walking away. When he was clear with no bush I popped him, he bite at the shot and I hit him again. The bear dropped and was out of sight.... When we got to where I;d shot him we suspected the worst and were correct. Down about 100-150 feet lay my bear, He was toast. It took us about 1/2 hour just to find a way down, it was still very very steep, not a drop off like where the bear had free fell but was but steep. I took a little slide and have some good road rash to prove. It was almost dark so we took a couple a photos with buddys iphone, gutted it and went home till the next day. Up early the next day loaded with walky talkys (charged too), snatch blocks and hundreads of feet of pollysteel rope. Buddy was a champ and walked, slide down to hook up the bear in the canyon for me. I set up the rope and blocks and hooked it to my truck. Buddy gave me direction as the bear did get hung up in one spot but a little back and forth on my part and the bear was out. We hooked up the rigging again inorder to get him to the road. Again, the bear got hooked up but with a little more gas he flew over the stubborn christmas tree!! Got him loaded in the truck, took him back to buddys house, skinned him and went back out for more. Just a bunch more does in the evening, hunted right till dark, back to buddys, had a couple beers and went to sleep early. Bear average size, 250-300 ish lbs. pics of the bear are on my facebook if your a `friend`. I:ll clean up the skull and put it with the others.

Next day anothe 5am-er. Headed out for first light, we took the first spur road and drove to the end of it, saw a doe and the road ended, went back to the fork and drove just about to the end then I spotted a buck 70 yards or so infront of us. I got out and popped it, it gave a big back kick, did a little run with lots of blood gushing everywhere, 40 feet maybe? Was dead by the time we got to it. On autopty m¸y shot double lunged it, the Speer 400gr ripped ragged 1in or so hole thru both lungs and exited. Dragged him out, said goodbye to buddy, got the bear and deer unloaded, skinned the buck (2pt mulie 200lbs) about to fall asleep as I write this.

I;ll work on the pics later. Great hunt, very happy. The speer 400gr @ 1850 sure did a good job, good killer bullet, no drt but worked well.

This thread is useless without pics!

Thanks dick.

Hammell, he isnt being rude...Its a very common reply on AR (among other boards)to a story that has no pictures.