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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffrthehunter" data-source="post: 2317106" data-attributes="member: 98990"><p>October 6th</p><p>We get up at 7 (doesn't get light till 830), have some coffee and breakfast. At this point Mike tells me "We can't go to the creek and look for bears". I was bummed and asked him "why not"? He said, "the salmon creek is on the other side of the ridge, we need to stay out, going in there would spread our scent around and the bears would leave". I was bummed, so I talked him into some close by scouting. We hiked to the top of a small rocky knob near the beach and glassed for bears, saw lots of bear sign but no bears. I was told when I booked the hunt that I would see bears most everyday with 10 bears a day being possible. I have been here for two days and no bears (doubt is creeping into my mind).</p><p>October 7th (opening day of bearing season) I wake up 2 hours early and I'm so excited I can't get back to sleep. I make some coffee and wait for Mike to get up. We start out the morning at first light walking a bear trail that will lead us to a look out. At this point I want to describe the hunting area that we will be spending our time in. Our camp is 300 yards from the beach and close to sea level. We have grass, tundra (mossy thick green ground cover), and rocky areas between us and the beach. Ocean shoreline has sections of sandy beach and some very rocky sections, this goes on for miles in both directions. Behind our camp there is a thick alder brush hill the gradually slopes up to our look out, brush is super thick and about 6 feet high (great place for bears to hide). To get to our lookout we follow the beach for 1/2 a mile and then we walk up an open ridge that leads to the top of the hill. Very near the top there is a rock ledge that overlooks the creek and main hunting area. To the left the mouth area of the creek near the beach is a huge delta, its full of water at high tide and mostly mud at low tide. A large beach dune separates the delta from the ocean. There is a small cutout in the dune where the river empties into the sea. The ledge we hunt from is 400 feet above the delta and down below to the left is a large grassy area where the bear feed. Back to hunting!</p><p>Leaving the tent on opening morning my anticipation is through the roof. 6 months of preparation, new gun build (custom 375 H&H with 3-18 scope), new gear, lots of hiking to get in shape, I am ready!!! As we walk the bear trail along the beach, we aren't 500 yards from the tent and I can see the back of a bear just in front of us, I stop Mike and point. We both smile as we realize it is the back of a large porcupine... Another 500 yards we get to the ridge line where we can start to see the creek and delta, I immediately see several bears. " Mike, which one can I shoot", he says "none" and proceeds away from the bears and takes us up the ridge to the lookout. We get to the lookout, I see 6 more bears in the grassy area adjacent to the delta. "Mike, which one should I shoot", he tells me to "Sit tight I need to look them over", I'm thinking *** Mike I want to shoot one. An hour later most of the bears have walked into alder thickets and are gone. Mike explains that we are looking for a large male over 8', none of the bears were big enough and most of them were sows and cubs. Throughout the day we saw several bears, I'm guessing about 20 total for the day but no shooters. I was bummed that we didn't shoot one but optimistic about rest of the hunt as we saw so many animals. Just before dark we start heading towards camp. Just 100 yards from the lookout heading down the ridge I see a bear 80 yards in front of us. I stop Mike and point out the bear, he looks it over and said its only 7 foot (to small) and we need to sneak around. The bear still has its head down and is sniffing the trail where we walked in this morning. We both chamber a round into our rifles, we start paralleling the trail to get past him and the next thing I notice is he is sitting up and looking directly at us 60 yards away. Mike says, "This is not good, the bear is not afraid of us, we need to go" ( no ****, I think to myself !). On our way back to camp we talk about how that bear will likely follow our steps back to the camp. Safe in our tents we eat dinner and go to bed. Lights are out and I'm thinking about the day when something very large starts sniffing outside my tent. This was not a fox or deer sniff, much louder and deeper, a bear is in our camp!!!! Mike also hears the bear; we both start shouting and turn on our headlamps. Gun in hand we walk around outside the tents while yelling, thankfully the bear is gone. Back to bed where a get little sleep before day number 2.</p><p>To be continued….</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]305704[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]305705[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeffrthehunter, post: 2317106, member: 98990"] October 6th We get up at 7 (doesn't get light till 830), have some coffee and breakfast. At this point Mike tells me "We can't go to the creek and look for bears". I was bummed and asked him "why not"? He said, "the salmon creek is on the other side of the ridge, we need to stay out, going in there would spread our scent around and the bears would leave". I was bummed, so I talked him into some close by scouting. We hiked to the top of a small rocky knob near the beach and glassed for bears, saw lots of bear sign but no bears. I was told when I booked the hunt that I would see bears most everyday with 10 bears a day being possible. I have been here for two days and no bears (doubt is creeping into my mind). October 7th (opening day of bearing season) I wake up 2 hours early and I'm so excited I can't get back to sleep. I make some coffee and wait for Mike to get up. We start out the morning at first light walking a bear trail that will lead us to a look out. At this point I want to describe the hunting area that we will be spending our time in. Our camp is 300 yards from the beach and close to sea level. We have grass, tundra (mossy thick green ground cover), and rocky areas between us and the beach. Ocean shoreline has sections of sandy beach and some very rocky sections, this goes on for miles in both directions. Behind our camp there is a thick alder brush hill the gradually slopes up to our look out, brush is super thick and about 6 feet high (great place for bears to hide). To get to our lookout we follow the beach for 1/2 a mile and then we walk up an open ridge that leads to the top of the hill. Very near the top there is a rock ledge that overlooks the creek and main hunting area. To the left the mouth area of the creek near the beach is a huge delta, its full of water at high tide and mostly mud at low tide. A large beach dune separates the delta from the ocean. There is a small cutout in the dune where the river empties into the sea. The ledge we hunt from is 400 feet above the delta and down below to the left is a large grassy area where the bear feed. Back to hunting! Leaving the tent on opening morning my anticipation is through the roof. 6 months of preparation, new gun build (custom 375 H&H with 3-18 scope), new gear, lots of hiking to get in shape, I am ready!!! As we walk the bear trail along the beach, we aren't 500 yards from the tent and I can see the back of a bear just in front of us, I stop Mike and point. We both smile as we realize it is the back of a large porcupine... Another 500 yards we get to the ridge line where we can start to see the creek and delta, I immediately see several bears. " Mike, which one can I shoot", he says "none" and proceeds away from the bears and takes us up the ridge to the lookout. We get to the lookout, I see 6 more bears in the grassy area adjacent to the delta. "Mike, which one should I shoot", he tells me to "Sit tight I need to look them over", I'm thinking *** Mike I want to shoot one. An hour later most of the bears have walked into alder thickets and are gone. Mike explains that we are looking for a large male over 8', none of the bears were big enough and most of them were sows and cubs. Throughout the day we saw several bears, I'm guessing about 20 total for the day but no shooters. I was bummed that we didn't shoot one but optimistic about rest of the hunt as we saw so many animals. Just before dark we start heading towards camp. Just 100 yards from the lookout heading down the ridge I see a bear 80 yards in front of us. I stop Mike and point out the bear, he looks it over and said its only 7 foot (to small) and we need to sneak around. The bear still has its head down and is sniffing the trail where we walked in this morning. We both chamber a round into our rifles, we start paralleling the trail to get past him and the next thing I notice is he is sitting up and looking directly at us 60 yards away. Mike says, "This is not good, the bear is not afraid of us, we need to go" ( no ****, I think to myself !). On our way back to camp we talk about how that bear will likely follow our steps back to the camp. Safe in our tents we eat dinner and go to bed. Lights are out and I'm thinking about the day when something very large starts sniffing outside my tent. This was not a fox or deer sniff, much louder and deeper, a bear is in our camp!!!! Mike also hears the bear; we both start shouting and turn on our headlamps. Gun in hand we walk around outside the tents while yelling, thankfully the bear is gone. Back to bed where a get little sleep before day number 2. To be continued…. [ATTACH type="full"]305704[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]305705[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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