429421Cowboy
05-31-2013, 12:44 PM
It ended with a wonderful bear hunt with Miss K on Wednesday, she has wanted a bear for several years now so I try and make sure she gets what she wants! We loaded up and headed for the Beartooth WMA where we usually hunt elk because there certainly are a lot of bears in there over the years of hunting. The beauty of spring bear season vs fall is that the roads are all open now, so we could drive in to the back before starting to hunt, where as they lock all the roads out on September so it is walk in only and a long ways back to where the bears live!
We were watching a meadow along the crick hoping a bear would feed out of the timber, just talking quietly and enjoying the day when she taps me and points to a coyote trotting across the meadow, then asked "Can I shoot him?". Now she and I have been together for two and a half years, and in that time I have never been able to get her her first coyote, so I was pretty excited it might come together! I got out my call i take everywhere and started calling to the 'yote, when all of a sudden two more come boiling right around the hill at us up close! She took the far dog with one shot of her .270, which confused the close pair, just long enough that she nailed one trotting away. Two dead coyotes for two shots, and the first words out of her mouth were "Well there goes $4 worth of Noslers!", I couldn't have been more proud of her, in three hunting seasons I've never once seen her miss or wound an animal. I just wish we could find a bear!
All in all it was a wonderful day, we saw a pile of elk, looked for sheds, played in the crick, caught and released a few Cutthroat trout, shot coyotes and looked for bears, all with an amazing woman and truly my best friend. If you ever have the choice, pick the one that hunts with you! And she's lucky she does hunt with me because we start hunting in August for archery antelope, Sep archery deer-elk, Oct, gun antelope, then Oct-Nov gun deer-elk, Dec, geese then Dec-Feb, late season cow elk, finally ending with spring bear on June 1 so she really wouldn't see me much if she didn't come with!
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We were watching a meadow along the crick hoping a bear would feed out of the timber, just talking quietly and enjoying the day when she taps me and points to a coyote trotting across the meadow, then asked "Can I shoot him?". Now she and I have been together for two and a half years, and in that time I have never been able to get her her first coyote, so I was pretty excited it might come together! I got out my call i take everywhere and started calling to the 'yote, when all of a sudden two more come boiling right around the hill at us up close! She took the far dog with one shot of her .270, which confused the close pair, just long enough that she nailed one trotting away. Two dead coyotes for two shots, and the first words out of her mouth were "Well there goes $4 worth of Noslers!", I couldn't have been more proud of her, in three hunting seasons I've never once seen her miss or wound an animal. I just wish we could find a bear!
All in all it was a wonderful day, we saw a pile of elk, looked for sheds, played in the crick, caught and released a few Cutthroat trout, shot coyotes and looked for bears, all with an amazing woman and truly my best friend. If you ever have the choice, pick the one that hunts with you! And she's lucky she does hunt with me because we start hunting in August for archery antelope, Sep archery deer-elk, Oct, gun antelope, then Oct-Nov gun deer-elk, Dec, geese then Dec-Feb, late season cow elk, finally ending with spring bear on June 1 so she really wouldn't see me much if she didn't come with!
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