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HUNT STATUS:  Who Has Their Bear So Far? (The picture version.)

Fred Lutger - Quest For  A Bear On The Ground, Continued...

As I videoed the bear from the tripod I also took a few pictures. So far the bear had not given Fred an acceptable shot  angle. Woops, what's this?

The video camera "battery is low" light started flashing. I whispered to Fred and told him. Every second seemed like an hour as we waited for the bear to turn broadside.

Double woops, lights out. The video camera went off.

"It's dead," I said quietly. My eyes felt like they were four inches around.

"This is a great bear," Fred said, "If I can I'm going to shoot him."

Quietly but quickly, I slipped my digital camera off the tripod so I could take hand held pics and zoomed in on the bear. We had a standoff in progress. Finally the bear stepped away from the logs.

In the previous pictures you may not have been able to tell how big this bear really is, things ought to fall into perspective now. Fred wasted no time, he drew ... but the bear's right leg was back. 

The bear might have heard something, because he looked right at us. (We're 10 yards away in the Double Bull Blind.) But the bear was totally unconcerned and looked away. This Double Bull blind is the best ground hunting tool in the world, nothing can see you in it. Fred held at full draw and I took pictures.

Unbelievably, in the picture below you can see the TrailTimer's red sensor going off behind the bear! 

This is the picture you see being taken above. How cool is that!

I kept taking pictures, hoping to get the arrow and bear in a pic. The present bear scenario had, "I'm gonna leave." written all over it. The bear turned, he was gonna split.

It was now or never. Fred's arrows have the new Tracer Lighted Nocks and I saw one instantly light up, bright red, in the bear's side, a fraction behind the right leg. Only the nock of the arrow was showing. The bear was furious, it rolled over trying to fight the arrow, the Tracer Lighted Nock was glowing brightly in a swirling sea of black fur. (I got a pic of it but it came out blurry.)

The bear ran into the woods to our left. Its crashing stopped and we heard a death moan. Fred threw up the front of the blind with the intention of us running to the bear, the death moan would bring us right to him. But the sound stopped.

Meanwhile the TrailTimer camera took our pictures. Below, we've just thrown up the blind and Fred is looking in the direction of the moan.

We checked for blood, there was plenty. In this TrailTimer pic you can see the Double Bull blind behind us with the bottom turned up. Notice we are wearing black shirts, Double Bull makes these too and they let you get away with movement inside the the blind. Fred is picking up part of his arrow shaft that had broken when the bear rolled over on it.

We started on the blood trail. In 20 yards we saw the Tracer Nock. Sixty more yards and we found the bear. We took a few pics and then went for help, this bear was too heavy for the two of us to drag out. Fred used the 4 blade, 125 grain Magnus Stinger broadhead and it did the job, it passed through the bear and left a generous blood trail. 

The next day we took more pictures at our camp area. And, Fred here is a wallpaper sized picture of you and your TrailTimer bear.


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