lonne

3 cubs? That's a rarity... :-)

Beautiful bear and beautiful picture/photography of the hillside!

Nice!

Dick's Sporting Goods has lost my business.

Yah, that looks awesome LOL.

Now that looks delish.

Sounds rough! I bet you were thinking about calling it a day at the first trouble controlling the boat. :-)

Let the Bear Hunting begin...who has success/stories/pics? Any March / April General rifle early success?

Very cool!

Nice looking Coati! Two Windy does awesome work. Says two of my bears and a turkey. He was referred to me by another friend he does more awesome work for. I even had a special request once for Two Windy and he pulled it off seemingly without difficulty. Thanks Two Windy! Can recommend. Good luck hope you find the form you are looking for.

Let Yeti know your disapproval here and pass it on. https://yeti.formstack.com/forms/contactus

Wow. Down with Yeti and all these other anti 2nd amendment groups.

Agreed 200% Redman - see the other post by Snapshot.

Super Sweet !!! Nice job

I hope you found him. I hate thieves. Buddy called me once. Said he accidentally left his garage door open and his $3000 Specialized bike was stolen. Said he saw someone selling it on Craigslist and would I call them? I called them and the guy said sure, meet me at such and such grocery store parking lot. I go to the parking lot and the guy never shows up. I call him and the guy makes up some excuse, and then gives me some residential address to go to. I look up the address on Google Maps and me and my friend see the guy has like 5 cars parked out front and 5 cars parked in the backyard, looked like a salvage yard disguised in a house. Went there, and some guy with a different name comes out, and doesn't sound like the guy I spoke to on the phone. He obviously looks like a tweaker, and he says sorry that bike is sold, but I have this young girl's bike for sale - my daughter doesn't want it anymore. I thought SOB, stealing all these bikes and selling them. My buddy and I called the police and not sure anything was ever done - my friend never got his bike back. I think the best we can do is make a police report and provide the serial number of the firearm and hope. Lonne

If that coward Assad doesn't want peace then our guys can show him what heck's really like Yeah? So you want to take him out like we did saddam and gaddafi? Tell me about how great Iraq and Libya have been doing since then and the mass immigration in Europe. Worked out really good Trphyhntr for public office? This could be interesting...LOL Well, I think the idea is ...no chemical weapons being used internationally publicly being acceptable... Is there spin? Yes of course.

Nice job! And great idea.

Nice job!!! Good story.

Great thread. I don't know why. I've seen countless javelina. But always at the wrong time with the wrong tag. And now that the limit is 2 per year, it really drives me nuts. I have even called them in before to 10 yards with a hand call, but didn't have a tag, so couldn't do anything about it. LOL. And while my dad got a couple when I wasn't with him, every time when I was with him, we were lucky to see some or have an empty handed shoot out occur. :-) So the curse has followed me until now, although I certainly haven't went hunting that many years...thank goodness or I'd feel worse LOL.

Too funny but too true. LOL. These are like movie classics.

This is a great thread. LOL. I wish I had seen the other one before it got pulled.

Yes, they wrote him a ticket for failure to have it on him. And no, they did not treat it like a parking ticket.

To noone in particular. A lot of you guys talk * but if you were in the same shoes, you would not be so sure of yourself then. I don't know the details of the situation. And I don't condone poaching. Likelihood this guy is a poacher to have his life ruined? Not likely. Likely a good hunter who made a dumb mistake like any one of us could possibly make "on any given Sunday." And he is not related to Biden. https://nypost.com/2018/01/19/joe-bidens-niece-finally-pays-up-for-100k-credit-card-scam/ A solid good friend of mine who has never bagged an animal, never shot at an animal, never even wounded an animal, but has always wanted to take home some deer meat to his family, forgot his license but brought his tag to our deer hunt once. Work was so nuts he could only make it out for 1 night and 1 day. Game and Fish was randomly ID'ing people, and he got nailed for not having his license on him, despite the fact that he had a valid tag. And this was when tags were valid only on Calendar years Jan 1 to Dec 31. So how did he get a tag without having a valid license in the first place? The Game and Fish officer told him that if he had been hunting coyote he couldn't have done anything, but because he didn't have his license on him with a valid deer tag and admitted to hunting deer, he was cited on the spot. Next thing you know he gets a notice in the mail threatening jail time, $5000 fine (approx), the book. Good guy, solid God-fearing Christian, family and kids. Definitely no poacher and no criminal, and definitely not a guy that would make a dumb mistake without having a bad day. And this guy is so far from being a poacher he still hasn't tagged his first animal yet. And they wanted to send him away...He could have got any lawyer, but if there is something to be learned about lawyers, it is certainly that one isn't as good as the next. Some are great for exactly what you need, and others were meant to be a different kind of lawyer. Bottom line was he got a good lawyer and it was dismissed after showing his valid license, but believe me the court would not have been so easy on him had he not had a lawyer that knew something about game laws...Without a good lawyer it would have been a number in their statistics to show they are *doing their job* (on a defenseless innocent person). And thankfully it was dismissed. But not until after it cost him $3 grand with his family fearing he was going to be sent away. So, be careful what you say or do, you never know when you might be in the same situation. You can be the most honest guy in the world but if they have a quota to fill, you and your family are nothing I don't care how honest or law abiding you are. Only speak to any LEO through a lawyer. Even lawyers will not represent themselves. Last but not least. If any of you think this couldn't happen to me -- it only happened to him b/c he must have done something wrong. And I'm not just referring to self-reporting, but being honest with someone who you think is simply checking your ID - you're still green or living in times of the past when things were fair...Times have changed, and LEO's, and judges have quotas to fill. You're just a number to them. This is why I don't understand why everyone votes judges in every year on the ballot whom they know nothing about. Many of them probably have Swiss bank accounts or monero accounts. It's like giving employment to people for life who probably don't deserve it.

It was a good time. Great bear bratwursts. Thanks Keith!!! Let's do it again next year and sorry for any who couldn't make it. Lonne

Way to go, nice looking bear! Looks like some fat on that one! Happy Holidays everyone. Lonne