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<blockquote data-quote="LRSickle" data-source="post: 389720" data-attributes="member: 18167"><p>More rambling:</p><p>I was suprised at the junk we found in the bays. Old boats, propane tanks, old outboards, Things that weren't lost overboard but were left there on purpose. This really disturbed me. I don't remember seeing hardly any junk on the Kenai or up by Palmer. Well, there's a reason for this. Bill, my son's boss, said it cost twice as much to ship the wood for his lodge than it did to buy it. Shipping is expensive. If you want to get rid of your garbage you have to ship it to the nearest landfill, which would cost you a lot of money. If you can't burn it, you pile it up behind your cabin. Some people tow it to some remote bay and leave it. There is a law that says you can take food-stuffs out past the low tide level and dump it and I'm sure alot of people do that.</p><p>I tried to shoot the first three bears with my recurve bow but the wind got me on one occasion and that **** kelp popping under my feet gave me away the other times. I tried to stay above the tide line but sometimes you just couldn't. Anyway, getting close to a big ol' bear with a stick and string is pretty cool. I could hear them breathe, hear the kelp popping under thier feet, and watch them roll rocks looking for crabs. All the bears we saw were in the rocks. Under nearly every rock were a bunch of 50-cent-sized crabs. The bears would roll a rock over and then hurry and stomp their foot down on the crabs. Then they would carefully reach under their foot with their mouth and grab a crab, being carefull not to let the others escape while he crunched each crab in turn.</p><p>Did I mention that baggage handlers are D-bags. Ya, I think I mentioned that.</p><p>I wish I knew my waterfowl better. I couldn't believe how many different kinds we saw.</p><p>I bought a wolf tag just in case. We spent the first three days concentrating on trying to call a wolf in but kept seeing bears so we'd go after them. We never saw a wolf and the season closed the last day in April.</p><p> </p><p>I know some of you are interested in the terminal performance of my 338edge and 300gr SMKs so I took some pictures of the exit-wounds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My shot was slightly quartering through both lungs.</p><p><img src="http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/longbow_photo/Picture005.jpg?t=1273404723" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My son's bear was steep-raking quartering. The bullet went in around the last rib and can out on the opposite side in the chest. He didn't want such a quartering shot but I gave him permission to shoot. Incredible damage! </p><p><img src="http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/longbow_photo/Picture009.jpg?t=1273404485" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LRSickle, post: 389720, member: 18167"] More rambling: I was suprised at the junk we found in the bays. Old boats, propane tanks, old outboards, Things that weren't lost overboard but were left there on purpose. This really disturbed me. I don't remember seeing hardly any junk on the Kenai or up by Palmer. Well, there's a reason for this. Bill, my son's boss, said it cost twice as much to ship the wood for his lodge than it did to buy it. Shipping is expensive. If you want to get rid of your garbage you have to ship it to the nearest landfill, which would cost you a lot of money. If you can't burn it, you pile it up behind your cabin. Some people tow it to some remote bay and leave it. There is a law that says you can take food-stuffs out past the low tide level and dump it and I'm sure alot of people do that. I tried to shoot the first three bears with my recurve bow but the wind got me on one occasion and that **** kelp popping under my feet gave me away the other times. I tried to stay above the tide line but sometimes you just couldn't. Anyway, getting close to a big ol' bear with a stick and string is pretty cool. I could hear them breathe, hear the kelp popping under thier feet, and watch them roll rocks looking for crabs. All the bears we saw were in the rocks. Under nearly every rock were a bunch of 50-cent-sized crabs. The bears would roll a rock over and then hurry and stomp their foot down on the crabs. Then they would carefully reach under their foot with their mouth and grab a crab, being carefull not to let the others escape while he crunched each crab in turn. Did I mention that baggage handlers are D-bags. Ya, I think I mentioned that. I wish I knew my waterfowl better. I couldn't believe how many different kinds we saw. I bought a wolf tag just in case. We spent the first three days concentrating on trying to call a wolf in but kept seeing bears so we'd go after them. We never saw a wolf and the season closed the last day in April. I know some of you are interested in the terminal performance of my 338edge and 300gr SMKs so I took some pictures of the exit-wounds. My shot was slightly quartering through both lungs. [IMG]http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/longbow_photo/Picture005.jpg?t=1273404723[/IMG] My son's bear was steep-raking quartering. The bullet went in around the last rib and can out on the opposite side in the chest. He didn't want such a quartering shot but I gave him permission to shoot. Incredible damage! [IMG]http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/longbow_photo/Picture009.jpg?t=1273404485[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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