Black Bear

While in Valdez, Travis took Blake for a black bear hunt. We hiked around from about 6am to 10 before spotting a big bear walking up and down the river feeding on spawning salmon. I stalked him through the river tributaries until I had a clear shot at 50 yards. 1 shot with a 7mm Mag sent him running through the brush for 50 yards until he died in another tributary of the river. After starting the work on the bear we remembered the big Brown Bear we had seen earlier that day so we made a decision to finish the work on a sand bar just down stream where we would have a better view of any incomming danger. Blake helped me skin and dress the bear in about 2 hours. Thanks Blake. His skull scored 18 9/16 and measured 6' nose to tail and 6'6" arm span. The fish and game biologist suggested that the bear was pretty big and about 6 years old or older. Thanks to Blake we got the work done quickly. He said that was the hardest hunting he has ever done.