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October 7, 2016<\/span>May 20, 2015<\/span><\/div>
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Date: 10\/7\/2016
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Weapon: 300 Winchester Magnum
\nDistance: 270 Yards
\nAmmo: Nosler 190gr. Accubond
\nOutfitter\/Guide: Circle M Outfitters<\/a>
\nScore\/Size: 5-foot
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British Columbia Black Bear<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This story continues from my goat hunt British Columbia. After seeing many black bears over the first 8 days in the back country during our goat and caribou hunt, we moved out base camp on day 9 to look for either a moose or black bear. The evening of day 9, me and my guide Landon started working a burned out area along the river that holds a lot of moose. My other guide Matt took the truck a ways up to watch a south facing mountain side that is usually loaded with bears. He would radio to us if he spotted a good. Not more than 40 minutes into the evening hunt, Matt radioed us saying he had sites on a good bear feeding in a berry patch. He came back and picked us up and we started scoping out the hillside. All of a sudden, we saw 5 bears along that mountain side with a nice looking boar way up towards the top in the berries. We had some weather rolling in and by the time we could start the long stalk up the mountain, we holed up in cover during a downpour, the entire mountain was engulfed in the cloud. Thirty minutes went by and it cleared. The bear was still in place so we went up the hill. The mountain was steep, overgrown with brush, and loaded with deadfall making it a slow climb. We got about half way up and the bear had moved further up and was about to go over the top. With only 30 minutes of daylight, we had to return back to the truck.<\/p>\n

The next morning we got back to the same place and again spotted 4 more bears. We saw a nice one, much lower on the mountain. Me and Landon took off looking for it. We lost site for awhile and then spotted a bear in the same vicinity. I set up prone over a fallen log and shot this bear at 270 yards. It looked like a clean shot, but we did not see where it went. We tore up that mountainside for an hour looking for a sign and we finally found some blood and located the bear shortly after. The bear was beautiful, An amazing coat with a small white spot on the breast. In hindsight, the was not the same bear we had initially stalked. The bigger bear gave us the slip and we ended up shooting a 5-footer. It was still a great bear ad would eat really well once I got it home. My second black bear was in the books and the great 10-day hunt had come to a close.<\/p>\n