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Intense!!!
Posted by Doc on Oct 01 2005
Thanks for sharing your experience with us, and for doing the right thing afterwards (getting ahold of the troopers). Hopefully you won't get a bunch of posts talking about what you could have/should have done. Situations like yours usually happen fast...REAL FAST! We do the best we can. As you tell the story, clearly that bear was inside your circle of safety. Unfortunately, during your bear encounter you were hunting deer with a great caliber for deer, but way under-gunned for bear.
Your story is a good reminder for us all that no matter what we are hunting, there are bigger and more dangerous species in the woods (who are now moving into their hyperphagic stage). Consequently, we are sometimes limited in what we can do up here. For example, I'm going to PWS for a week long drop-off deer hunt in early November, and I really want to take my .257 Roberts...which is a great round and a great shooter. Sometimes I almost talk myself into it, but I know I won't/can't on a week long drop-off hunt. I'll probably end up taking my .30-06 (which I have always done before on deer hunts...even though it's over kill for black-tails and very very marginal for brown bear), or I'll load some 235 grn. bullets for my .375HH (and tuck some 270's in the shellholder), which may really seem odd to readers. Imagine telling someone outside that I may take a .375HH deer hunting. Heck, I'll probably get some ribbing from my fellow Alaskans for considering such a thing.
Again, thanks for sharing your story with us. Don't look back or second guess yourself, despite what you may hear from others (including me).
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