treesolid
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Registered: Feb 2006
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A bear hunting adventure in Maine!!
so last thursday we loaded up and headed to maine. we were invited to run some baits that were suppose to have some nice 300 lb bears on them. after checking the first bait bait and 2 dogs coldtrailing that the other 2 couldnt smell we picked up the older dogs and headed to another. got a good strike on the way and dumped on that, after an hour we dicided to pick up dogs as they were running a small bear and we were after a larger one. it was about 10:30 we checked the next bait. hoping to look on the camera and see what age track we had and what size bear.. we were not able to as the camera was ripped off the tree sometime after 1:00am. so.. the dogs are led in and are trailing out. cold trailing. we were able to listen for about a half hour then decided to drive around to another road. we had lost gps reading of the dogs. as we drove around and got back into range, the gps beeped and said the dogs had treed. i checked telemetry, as the mountain we were running on was full of rock and ledge, and half thinking the dogs were stuck. No tree switches.. hmmm... all 4 dogs were treed still on the gps. so we drove up a side road and got within 500 yards of the dogs.. couldnt say for sure that we herd them. we suggested that we head in and when we got there, to call back on the radio and let the others know what we had going on. about 200 yards from the dogs.. we heard them and knew they were looking at something in a HOLE. called back on the radio and told them to start heading in.. they were bayed in a rock cave. just as i put the radio back, i herd the bear blow and the dogs were going insane.. it was pretty exciting. so we leashed the dogs so none of them would get pulled in with the bear and waited for the rest of the crew. there was a small peep hole on the side that you could stick your head in and see the bear, that was where the shot would have to be taken. 11 yr old boy with his dads 357 stuck his head in the hole and pow. he killed himself a bear. took 4 mens might to pull the brute out of the hole, and took over 2 hours for 4 men to get him 500 yards back to the truck. he tipped the scale at 345 fully dressed ( guy at store told us scale was 15-20 lbs off) so not sure of actual weight. but he was big. all in all was a very adventurous day. here are a few pics. enjoy!
squirty, ojo, brin, and marge barking in hole
jared and marge in hole with bear after he was dead
pic taken from back of hole notice the spruce boughs, this was his den i would guess.
mark with his plott brin, chris (shooter) kelly with marge and ojo, and jared with squirty
bear on the scales- kelly and marge.
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