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<blockquote data-quote="keen.on.it" data-source="post: 2875149" data-attributes="member: 127326"><p>Vancouver Island, BC. After a good weekend in the bear woods, elk sheds found and a couple of decent bears making the slip on us, we walked around a rock face on the side of road to this bear at 25 yards, frozen. My buddy shouldered his 30/30 and asked if he should shoot. "I don't know, it looks pretty small" I said, when the bear turned around and slowly ran off. It ran about 30 yards and cut through the ditch to get into the clearcut. There was a steep dirt embankment about as tall as the bear standing that it had to run up to get into the clearcut, a feat I have seen no bear struggle to do, until now. After a few attempts it finally made it into the clearcut, where it ran 10 yards, stopped, sat down and started digging for grubs. Putting my scope on the bear instantly sparked my intrigue, this was no young bear. We watched it eat for a couple minutes, when we decided to make some noise. We whistled and "hey bear!"ed, huffed and lip smacked, when it looked up from its meal and stared in our direction. It was frozen for a moment when it slowly turned around, awkwardly ran 10 yards, stopped, sat down and started digging for grubs. We gave it every opportunity to bugger off, and with every minute my curiosity was growing. We figured it was a crusty old sow by the size and the flat face, and a 145gr Hornady ELD-X from my Tikka T3x 270 win would confirm it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keen.on.it, post: 2875149, member: 127326"] Vancouver Island, BC. After a good weekend in the bear woods, elk sheds found and a couple of decent bears making the slip on us, we walked around a rock face on the side of road to this bear at 25 yards, frozen. My buddy shouldered his 30/30 and asked if he should shoot. “I don’t know, it looks pretty small” I said, when the bear turned around and slowly ran off. It ran about 30 yards and cut through the ditch to get into the clearcut. There was a steep dirt embankment about as tall as the bear standing that it had to run up to get into the clearcut, a feat I have seen no bear struggle to do, until now. After a few attempts it finally made it into the clearcut, where it ran 10 yards, stopped, sat down and started digging for grubs. Putting my scope on the bear instantly sparked my intrigue, this was no young bear. We watched it eat for a couple minutes, when we decided to make some noise. We whistled and “hey bear!”ed, huffed and lip smacked, when it looked up from its meal and stared in our direction. It was frozen for a moment when it slowly turned around, awkwardly ran 10 yards, stopped, sat down and started digging for grubs. We gave it every opportunity to bugger off, and with every minute my curiosity was growing. We figured it was a crusty old sow by the size and the flat face, and a 145gr Hornady ELD-X from my Tikka T3x 270 win would confirm it. [/QUOTE]
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