chrislibby88
Senior Member
Well, kicked off my mountain hunt with a double! I actually didn’t see any trucks driving into the WMA, and none on the access road. Had me tripping for a minute thinking I was a day early. I just beat them there. Anyway, got settled in the tree just before gray light and watched the woods blow in the wind. The first hour was pretty uneventful, so I decided to rattle just a tad after 8 during a calm moment where the wind died down some. 5 minutes later I hear grunts coming from a pine thicket below me. I stand up, adrenaline pumping, grunt a few times, turn, and start watching. Nothing. 15 minutes go by and I sit back down, and just as I was giving up hope I looked back to my 7 o’clock and a small buck is heading up the finger about 50 yards away. I turn, wait for a window, put my crosshairs just behind his elbow, bang. His front end drops, and starts dead leg running up the finger. I rack another round but don’t need it, he turns and hobbles towards me, and piles up 30 yards from my stand. Great. Meat buck down at 8:30, and I’m gonna keep sitting. Just as I get my heart rate back close to baseline I hear something moving in the pine thicket above me higher up the finger the buck came up. I start watching and see a dark shape through the thicket. Oh man, it’s a bear. He kinda mosies about through the thicket for a few minutes, only showing glimpses through the thick, and finally pops out on in the open almost where I shot the buck, he’s a little further back, and looks small at first, but turns and starts walking directly towards me, and I see he’s fat, and not a baby. He starts dipping downhill, his butt is up and his head is down, I aim where his neck meets his shoulders, bang, he goes down and rolls down a ditch and settles just out of sight at 9:00. Decided to be an idiot and drag them both at the same time, since it’s all downhill, and only a few hundred yards to the road. Rough. Its thick. And steep. Got them checked in and was back at base quartering by 1:00. Great start to hunt.
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