1035 yard bear
- Thread starter wjm1000
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Bear claws ….Can’t understand all of them people down there eating hog when they could be feeding on elk. You kind of like it down there?
Jeremiah….. thought it were be different.
Bear claws… is that so? Many’s a child has traveled this high to get something from the mountain, it comes to nothing, you can’t cheat the mountain pilgrim.
Jeremiah….. thought it were be different.
Bear claws… is that so? Many’s a child has traveled this high to get something from the mountain, it comes to nothing, you can’t cheat the mountain pilgrim.
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Wjm1000, my apologies for going ape s!$t on the Jeremiah Johnson thing. Did not mean to intrude into your thread like that. I’ll blame it on Jeremiah. I will actually have to look to see who and how got this sidetracked onto the movie. anyway, it was good for some laughs. everybody out there do yourself a favor ASAP and watch Jeremiah Johnston sometime soon!
doesn't bother me.
I’m weighing in here because the OP mentioned “Cross Fork”. We had a family camp on Kettle Creek, ¼ mile from the Hammersley Fork tributary. I started hunting the Hammersley Wild Area in 1962 where I shot my first buck in the Daugherty Run. “Back in the Day” the opening of deer season and bear season was a big event there. When the clock struck legal shooting time, it sounded like a war zone. I hunted during the first three days of buck season until the early 70’s when I returned to PA from a Navy enlistment. At that point, I had vacation enough that I could start hunting on Thursday of the first week of buck season, after the lunacy had left the woods. I hunted antlerless deer early on but quit doing that, as I was in it for the hunt and not necessarily the venison. I still-hunted the “big timber” and mountain laurel thickets in places like Beech Bottom, Dump Hollow, Elkhorn Hollow and County Line Hollow, through the end of buck season. I quit hunting there when the PA PGC implemented the draconian Gary Alt deer management program. Those regulations pretty much took me out of my hunt. I never counted points on a buck until it was on the ground. I shot for antler mass and did not shoot any spike bucks. The places that I had to drag a deer out of didn’t make sense to drag something that wasn’t worth the effort.
We sold the property in 2019 and now I am no longer able to drag a deer very far, let alone for ½ day out of the Hammersley Wild Area. I am now relegated to stand hunting on my 42 acres in the farmland of NW PA. I hate it but still do it. The Hammersley Wild Area is a federally designated Wild Area that is a watershed described by a 55 mile perimeter, where no motorized vehicles are allowed. I have many memories and stories about the seasons that I spent in that place. Imagine hunting in a place where the only man-made sounds that you hear are the occasional large airplane flying overhead. After the first three days of deer season, you never crossed paths with another human being until the last Saturday, before Antlerless deer season started.
We left footprints in a lot of the same places. Still have the camp but haven’t been there in two years. Thinking of selling it. Getting to old to maintain it and a house to. Last time up I put a new metal roof on, had two retired friends help. The camp is off of Patty’s Run Road.
I took my own advice and watched Jeremiah Johnston over the weekend. I am grounded now for a couple of more months.
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You obviously have absolutely no idea how many people think that is a bit too far to be a certain, first shot kill - with any skill level or equipment. They just aren't saying anything. There are world record target shooters and many, many VERY capable shooters on this forum. Finer equipment does not exist. This is not a wanna-be Soldier of Fortune forum where everybody is a pussy because they don't agree with you. Personally - I have the equipment and skill, as do many readers here - to hit a big game animal at 1,000 yards. I'd choose to pass on those shots. So - why does someone need to join a sewing "cirle" because he is opting for the higher likelihood of a clean kill? Those who wish to take those shots are entitle do so and have their own opinions and ethics boundaries. Nice bear!
You are correct some people think it’s a a bit too far, but then again there’s a lot of people that has a different opinion on that. If someone is capable of making shots at that distance and chooses not to so be it. It’s all personal choice. I’ve been long-range hunting for decades and I am going to continue to do so until I can no longer do it. My post was not meant to be bragging, just sharing an alternative way of hunting. Thanks for the “nice bear” comment.
Myself, being somewhat new to bear hunting I love the thrill of going in the deep forest tracking with minimum supplies. I take a lever gun, a short rope and a knife. A tiny snap of a twig or the light rustle of a branch will get your attention quickly ‘
Just make sure you’re tracking him and not the other way around………….
Just make sure you’re tracking him and not the other way around………….
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