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My wife bought this blind for me for Christmas! This was it's maiden voyage and as you can see....it was a handy day to have it!
Oh, there's the hind foot. Same bear as the other two with the tape in the photo.
That leaf makes him look like he had six toes, but his rear tracks were landing slightly off-centered in his front tracks. Normal numbers of toes (as far as I know; I didn't ask him.)
I love this photo so much. Her husband and father-in-law look so stern in the back, but they're as proud as can be, as is her son. Also, he knows he's next!
My Jane dog rigging on my truck for the first time. That's Foxy peeking out of the box. It was early dawn, lighter than it look in the picture.
Since the COVID19 pandemic has caused everyone to reduce contact in social gatherings, the schools have closed. With all the children having to stay home, parents are finding ways to entertain them. My daughter said many of them in the neighborhoods are having a "Bear Hunt." They go for walks and look for "bears." So, people will place a "bear" around their house so it can be seen from the street and found by the children. That way, parents can walk around with their kids and look for bears. This trio is at the end of my street.
I suppose the lamb just wanted to join the fun.
A street view is in the next pic of my Photostream.
Mark shot from top of the black dry spot just above my head and rifle barrel. The bear was to the right across the snow on the next dry spot. He rolled all the way to the bottom of the canyon. We skinned him in the dark and waited til daylight before leaving. Had to hike/pull the hide & head up out of the canyon one toe hold at a time w/o the snowshoes. Then went back down for our packs/gear. Put the snowshoes back on after getting up towards the ridgetop. RUGGED. Got back to cabin at 11:30am - 18 hours after we left on the stalk! Mel gave us a packable rolled up deer drag sled to try out this year with all the snow. In the open snow and uphill it was probably easier than carrying the hide on my pack but downhill and in the Alders it was a pain. Jesse and I also used it on a wolf he shot back at the base camp the day before we flew out to spike camp and it worked pretty good for the wolf.
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Fish Creek offers a unique opportunity to view and photograph Alaskan Brown (Grizzlies) and Black bears. The bears come here to feed on the chum and pink salmon which spawn in the creek. From July to September, the salmon run provides an extensive food supply for bears, gulls and bald eagles.
Baby Girl has figured out how to Houdini her way out of the dog box, which is bad news, especially when the truck is moving.
Dean leashing up his dogs. We pull them back off the tree to relieve a little of the pressure on the bear, and so they won't be hurt if it comes out, one way or another.
My second bear, a 350- to 400-pound male, taken near (and dragged through) Jawbone Creek in California
Wild Man had to finish him off on the ground. He stepped a little too close, and the bear reached up and grabbed his pant leg and bit his shoe.
They usually don't take fox, but I wanted one for a project, so they let me shoot it. That works as a reward for the dogs too; after all their hard work, they get to think they killed it.
My 2006 bear, Big Bastard. He was somewhere around 350-400 pounds live weight, although we didn't weigh him.