Bear camp 2024- Bear down (2024)

Seems I used to see some out around the work camp, it’s been years. 15 miles east and the cause lots of problems. The cats might keep them under control out here. Oregon has lots of turkeys and there range is expanding.

wws

ROAD TRIP!! :

I’ve got a buddy out there hunting right now.

Used to be you could buy these bear tags over the counter, always thought it would be fun to trade hunts.

wws

Whatcha like to hunt?
I’d sure trade whatever we’d have to offer for a quality turkey spot!

I’m not much of a turkey hunter, really wouldn’t know where to start. I have caught them in snares and 110’s, I always thought they were a big pain to deal with.

wws

What were you after originally?

Update, just bought a PhoneScope. Will work with my binoculars, ordered an optic adapter for my spotter too. Can’t wait to get back out and try it out. Till then I have bats, nutria, opossums, raccoons,and skunks to deal with. Saturday can’t get here fast enough.

wws

Up date, had a couple weeks that didn’t go as planned. Went out with my wife, camping is always different with the wife. Pull into camp raining out, start putting things together and get bbq going, wife extends the camper awning and all the rain water dumps right into the Weber Smoky Joe! Great start. Get it back going.

Wake up to no power to the fridge? Go out looking around decide to head to a small town for propane, just not seeing anything for sign. Back to camp, see some elk.

Well not a propane issue, I guess the Honda 2000i gave up. So call it a weekend, head up the coast have lunch at a favorite clam chowder space.

Looking for a new generator, really would like the Honda 3200i, should power the trailer a/c. Find a Wen 4000 for $250 on Craigslist, decide just buy it so we can get back out. Last weekend weather was great, headed out everything seems to be working. Starting to see bear sign finally.

Looking into units but have yet to find a bear, did see some birds working over a carcass

Seen a guy on a little dirt bike he has seen a few, either too far away or just running across the road. We seem to be in the right areas just wrong time. Flowers are out, wife likes that. Hoping to get some bat work done in the next couple days and get back out.

Wild Columbine.

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My wife on upper landing.

Some big country!

Maybe another day?

wws

Cool country!! Best of luck to you.

How do you like the phone scope? I’ve been tempted to get one.

Phone scope works great, expensive for cheap plastic, but other options are even more. I will be using it lots more. Amazing a iPhone picks up a vapor trail from a bullet.

wws

Well had to wait till Saturday to go back out, wife came home from work I was loaded up ready to roll. We head towards the coast, take the normal backroads to camp looking at clearings as we go. At about 7:30 pm, I spot a bear, about 530 yards down a hill, get the spotting scope on it, looks like an average Oregon black bear. Looking I see a finger ridge I could drop down and close the distance. I drop down to where the bear is 226 yard away find a rest and pull the trigger , it just sits there ? Reload fire again !! It runs straight to the bottom, so off I go to see what happens. I get down to the last place I seen it, climb up on a stump and can hear its breathing, look brush moving, can’t see the bear. Brush is over my head. Getting dark, realize I left without a flashlight! Start the long climb out. Back at truck 10:00 pm. Head to camp. Up early, head back with my wife, take our packs, head on down the ridge to the bottom, find my stump, start cutting a trail into the place I seen the bushes moving. Find blood, more blood, broken limbs, find the bear about 15 down the creek. Bone it out, start the long pack out up this steep country. All in all 7 hours to drop down bone out and pack back up. Bear season is over for me now. A shower never felt better. Bear is cut up, ready for sausage, couldn’t have had a better partner. I sure Love my wife.