today's May 22nd we're bear hunting the spotted bear
up here we just crossed the river if we can just find him when we get up there
be in good shape so we're gonna slip on up there and say we can do
ah black bear hunting just getting our gear together and gonna hike up on a
vantage point and kind of tuck in tonight and see what we can find for
bears hopefully the right bear a black bear
well we're headed up to our our lookout point we have our spot picked out on
Google Earth and usually usually I do day hunts for bear hunting you can find
some good spots some good vantage points and look over a lot of country that's
kind of what I focus on so we're headed up and we're gonna camp out here for
about four hours on top of this Ridge where we're definitely in grizzly
country you never know what we're gonna find up here hopefully we can find a
mature boar black bear and be good to go but we're gonna be on our toes and you
just never know what you're gonna see but we'll see you something I'm sure we
will whether it's a deer or a badger or a grizzly bear
well we know it's been a good year when all the wildflowers are out blooming all
these bluebells and I don't know what these yellow ones are but bears like
dandelions that's for sure this is all candy this is like skittles for bears
just they just love this stuff so it's primetime got this valley in front of us
here it looks like the best green is in the bottom usually that's where you find
bears is in the greenest green and as you can see up this valley looks pretty
good so we're gonna watch the edges we're gonna watch the little pocket sit back
and relax and see what comes out got about four hours till dark
well we're all tucked in out of the rain usually the bears don't move too well in
the rain so
we spent most the night underneath the tarp watching the rain roll off some does
came out right before dark here a few minutes ago so there are our animals
here but no bears another beautiful night the high country
well we changed locations and we came down a little bit lower where it's more
green we have a thick north face over here and we spotted a bear with five elk
five bull elk and they're kind of tolerating each other it's a little over
a thousand yards away so we're gonna get our stuff and really hustle over there
and see if we can get on him when we get over there that's the problem with
this spot stock hunting in Montana with bears is most the time they're cruising
through this late in the season cuz they're ruts coming up and it's hard to
find a bear locked in on a meadow or a particular food source so that's the
biggest battle is finding the right bear that's stalkable and I think is this is
it
there's so much water today it's ridiculous it's so wet out you wouldn't
thinka bear would be out but we stuck with it all day and found one
elk right up here 75 yards I don't know where the bear is the last time I saw
the bear it's right in the middle of the meadow but it was around by the pond for a while
well I wasn't sure on how he hit that bear he was right at 63 yards perfect
broadside and it dropped in a little low not the best scenario not your picture
perfect textbook drawback shoot quick clean kill that you like to see but it
was within a matter of minutes spot in stock Montana general tag that's the way
it goes sometimes it's getting dark and it's raining so let's go
well here's our 2015 Montana black bear nice bear
spot in stock public land it's a great feeling we're soaking wet but I don't
even care right now we got to get this bugger out before dark thought for sure
five and a half six foot but by no means a giant but definitely a respectable
Montana black bear with the bow I couldn't be any happier so thanks for
watching this week's episode remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and
take trophy big game we'll see you right here next week on Eastman's hunting TV