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My daughter has decided she love to go hunting and has fallen in love with my young dog Tex. She decided last spring she would like to kill a big bear, bigger then her older brothers first bear. The last few weekend of June I had time to take her out and give it a try. With a number of nice boars treed over the few weekends she refused to pull the trigger as I wasn't sure they were bigger the Colton's first bear.   WE put some miles on following the dogs, the more bears we caught the more Courtney wanted to go.  Small bears, sows some big boars even we had a great time letting them go to run another day.  June ended and we had to wait for September. With Courtney leaving home to go to high School we spent the week before school started in the mountains (until the storms chased us home)   We dried out that evening and went back to bear hunting with the dogs. The first bear of the day ended up crossing the highway so the dogs where pulled. About noon the dogs got track going and soon the chase was on. Over the next 4 hours we got to see the bear cross the road 3 times, the third time we set up to try and kill the bear. Unfortunately the bear came out with a dog just beyond it giving us a dangerous shot which could have passed through and hit the dog. Tex, "Coutney's dog" hit the road with a nasty bite on his back, it was right about then Courtney said she was going to dump that bear even if was smaller then "Colton's bear!" I just about pulled the dogs off as another dog showed up with his share of holes as well. Just about the time I was talking of hiking in to get dogs The Garmin showed treed. The rest is history with a short mile downhill walk into the tree( and long mile uphill walk out with hide and meat, Courtney killed her first bear with one great shot from her 243 shooting 100 grain Nosler partitions.  Courtney with Tex  Courtney calls each night from town and wants to go and fill a second tag on the weekend. On a side note Tex is walking around fine now and the swelling is going down daily. The other two, Zoey and Tredster and well on the mend and will be out again this weekend. By the way it was the same size as her brothers bear which was just fine with. Doug McMann www.skinnercreekhunts.com ph# 250-476-1288 Fax # 250-476-1288 PO Box 27 Tatlayoko Lake, BC Canada V0L 1W0 email skinnercreek@telus.net | ||
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Great story and credit to your daughter. | |||
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Way to go Courtney. Boy she is growing up. XOXO Craig "Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars." | |||
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Well done dad and daughter! | |||
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AWSOME! I admire Courtney's determination! Well done All We Know Is All We Are | |||
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Great story and a nice first bear. You must be a very proud father!  Roger ___________________________ I'm a trophy hunter - until something better comes along. *we band of 45-70ers* | |||
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Way to go Courtney!!! I am still practicing my Pente for a rematch.... | |||
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I will pass that along, Ross. Doug McMann www.skinnercreekhunts.com ph# 250-476-1288 Fax # 250-476-1288 PO Box 27 Tatlayoko Lake, BC Canada V0L 1W0 email skinnercreek@telus.net | |||
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Doug, Big congrats to you and Courtney. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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She well remember that bear for the rest of her life tell her good job. | |||
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Very nice bear, congratulations Courtney, well done. velocity is like a new car, always losing value. BC is like diamonds, holding value forever. | |||
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Doug, Congrats to Courtney and you!!! Glad to hear my boy Tex is recovering nicely. MSG, USA (Ret.) Armor NRA Life Memeber | |||
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I remember when you killed your big boar, little TEX face barking that mean boar. When we arrived he came for a quick visit and then went right the bear again. It was about then I knew he would make a bear dog. Doug McMann www.skinnercreekhunts.com ph# 250-476-1288 Fax # 250-476-1288 PO Box 27 Tatlayoko Lake, BC Canada V0L 1W0 email skinnercreek@telus.net | |||
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Great story. Very impressed with your daughter that she ws prepared to keep hunting until she got a really big animal. A true hunter & not just a shooter! Well done Courtney. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Am sure you are a proud man Doug. | |||
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Very cool report! Got to be proud of your girl and your (Her) dogs. | |||
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Proper daughter that. ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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Nice Bear Congrats!!! | |||
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Great job, Dad! Tell Courtney, "Congratulations, very well done!" Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Congrats Courtney, nice bear! Great story Doug, looks like you've another hunter in the family  Glad to hear your dogs are on the mend.  Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Yours is the type of story I love to hear. Bringing the next generation along is probably what we need most. Doing it with hounds just makes it that much better. Congratulations to father and daughter! | |||
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With Courtney heading of to college this year, stories like this will get fewer over the next while. Sure will miss her smiling face around the house. Doug McMann www.skinnercreekhunts.com ph# 250-476-1288 Fax # 250-476-1288 PO Box 27 Tatlayoko Lake, BC Canada V0L 1W0 email skinnercreek@telus.net | |||
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. Great story, didn't catch it before. Well done you guys. They sure do grow up quick! Cheers Charlie . "Up the ladders and down the snakes!" | |||
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