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The guy was way too cool for me.  I would have been a wreck!  Not sure I could keep my head level like he did.

"you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post"

There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!

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2 minutes ago, ollie said:

The guy was way too cool for me.  I would have been a wreck!  Not sure I could keep my head level like he did.

He was probably relieved that he made it out in "relatively" good shape 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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There have already been three grizzly attacks on bowhunters out here this year.  This one was two drainages over from me.  There was one last week in Tom Miner Basin, which opens up on Paradise Valley on the Yellowstone, about 40 miles away from our house.  None of the three was fatal, two, including this latest one, involved a female with cubs.

Tom Miner is grizzly central around here.  A landowner planted fennel for some reason in a big field several years ago.  Fennel roots are apparently like grizzly catnip.  We've personally watched up to eight grizzlies at a time in the field that was originally planted, and others have seen 12 or more in that field.  The fennel has spread to other fields now, so the grizzlies are a little more scattered.  We watched one last week in a field about a mile from the original field that was within 30 yards of the road, a yearling cub that had been orphaned over the winter but still survived.  This weekend we watched the same bear in a field about 200 yards off the road, and it had a larger companion.

I have bow tags for elk and deer this year, but haven't been able to get out and hunt yet.  It's a bit scary to be roaming around the mountains with only a bow.

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I'm afraid I would be illegal and carry a revolver, Al.

this video always freaked me out with a bear with cubs.

 

 

 

 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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8 hours ago, Mitch f said:

I'm afraid I would be illegal and carry a revolver, Al.

this video always freaked me out with a bear with cubs.

 

 

 

 

In Missouri, you can carry a personal defense weapon while bow hunting. Don't know about other states. 

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Hunter S. Thompson

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