Post by dougl on Oct 7, 2021 8:53:39 GMT -5
So I leave work early yesterday to get an afternoon hunt in.Jordan and I leave the truck and we're walking on a trail with a steep ravine to our left,lined with pine.As hot as it was,I told Jordan to keep and I out because it's cool in there and deer would probably be bedded.About halfway through I spot a deer stand up and look at us.I glassed it and to my surprise it's a decent buck above and past his ears.Jordan nocks and arrow and I range it at 38 yards.Wack,the hit sounded good but neither of us saw the impact.We decided to back out,hunt where we planned on hunting and come back later.We split up and hunt opposite ridges of another big ravine.As I'm sitting there,I hear what I thought was a turkey kee keeing between where we were both hunting.Then about 30 minutes before dark I hear barking,coming from what sounded like where he was hunting.I saw nothing so I climbed down around 7:00.Just as I was getting finished packing up,I hear Jordan calling my name in the distance.The closer I get,the more frantic it sounded.Thinking he had some kind of accident.I dropped my bow and hurried up.As i approached his stand and saw his light,he screamed that he was being attacked by a bear.I dropped my pack,grabbed my 10mm and chambered a round.When I got up there he was completely out of his mind.As it turns out,a bear spent the last hour circling his stand popping his teeth,and huffing and pumping.He tried whistling to scare it off and then barked at it,thinking it would be afraid of a dog.At one point,the bear came up the ladder,stuck it's head over the footrest and swiped at his feet.When I asked him why he didn't put an arrow in it's noggin,he said,oh yeah,I shot a doe just before the bear came in AND HE ONLY HAD TWO ARROWS WITH HIM.He heard the deer crash but it ran behind the stand into a thick patch of autumn olive and guess where the bear went when it left?He didn't want to go after it but I couldn't just let it go so we went in,found it about 35 yards away and surprisingly,it wasn't touched,we tagged it,drug it several hundred yards before gutting it.On the way out,we checked where he hit the buck and it was dead,not 20 yards away,just over the lip of a ravine.It turned out to be a decent 6 point about 15".Not as big as I thought but not bad either.It was 9:30 by the time we got back to the truck and we were up til about 1:00am getting them in a fridge.Most certainly a hunt he will never forget.
