let's go bow hunting for a spring black bear with Dan Pickar
it's nasty day in Wyoming it's been a pretty late spring just starting to
green up here but we spotted a bear from the road actually way up on this slope
it looks like an average bear watch them for a little bit and see what he does
and it's about 4:45 so it's still early I think it gets dark about 9:00 but
let's see what this storm does and snow we've been getting some snow flakes and
wait for a little bit watch them and make a plan and maybe we'll go up there
maybe we won't we'll see
while we watch the bear come off the mountain down the hill how to sight into
the timber he was on this hill right here and he
fat down and it looks like there's some good green in here so we hope we can
catch him in this green we don't have that far to go really
and hopefully run into we're just gonna still hunt we don't really have anything
to lose this is kind of a new spot and we're just kind of in here on a whim so
so we're gonna load up a slip up on out of here just work up the straw
oh crap see her?
well crap we ran into this sow and cubs we're trailing they're jet blacks at least
well we found our sow and two cubs she just sent them up the tree
lets' back up back up she's holding her ground
let's let's get out of here Tim she's on the ground now
Oh 50 yards away I don't want to mess with her anymore
we're just gonna kind of back out of here slow and stay facing her keep an
eye on her go ahead and let's get out of here Tim back up yeah
kind of startled them that's a good way to get mauled by a bear so we're going to slip out of here
After the encounter with a sow and cubs Dan's headed off to
a different part of the drainage and employs a cub in distress call in hopes
of enticing a big bear
hey bear hey bear hey bear hey bear
hey bear
she's following us Tim, she's following us
hey bear
well we ran into another sow we didn't know what it was kind of spooked her off
the trail snuck down in here hit the old cub baller she came in bringing her cubs
with her two little tiny ones she's still coming up let's just get out of
here
we're at our glassing point for the afternoon I've got a big north face a lot of dark
timber with some feed in the bottom good place to find bears today's June 11th
this should be reading it should be courting there should be movement all
day so we're gonna perch up underneath this tree and try and stay out of the
heat and see if we can catch something moving down through this drop below us
and see what happens we'll sit here till dark we got about seven eight hours till dark
stop
well we've got a boar courting a sow down here
they're coming up the draw. I think they stopped behind the tree down there
looks like they're, half brown half black
lets get right down here and get down in front of them
perfect heart shot perfect
that's uh that's the way the cookie crumbles on the last day it just comes
together sometimes it's just meant to be you can't explain it but today fate
finally call our number on the last day nice work nice
bear with dead
and the scars Tim
last day Wyoming baby spot and stoalk public land jet-black
my first jet black finally found a jet black boar kill
Great Bear let's get to work