2025 Bear success thread

[Tekla]

Fall Kenai peninsula.

 

[tracker12]

My NJ archery bear. Number 4 in the State that gives out a nice patch to successful hunters.

 

[sierrastalker]

Finally got my first black bear. A nice little chocolate in northern California on the first day hunting of our 'week long' backpack hunt. 30-06 shooting a 138gn Hammer Hunter HHT, 200 yard shot, cross-canyon - dropped him right in his tracks and he fell 135 feet through some bushes and then down a big chute. Even though he was a smaller bear, it made for a heavy 7 mile pack out....it didn't help that we still had basically all of our food left and had to pack that back down the trail. Saw 8 bears that day, and they were all on the move solo through the berry bushes. Last trip up there we saw a ton of sows with cubs, but none this trip.

 

[tracker12]

Killed two bears when I lived in CA 2000-2003. Hunted D8 and D9. Love the Sierras. To bad there in CA