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Poll Question: What will happen on this bear hunt?
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    Posted: December/10/2007 at 13:46
OK, I am ready for any bets.  We are going back to Hyde County NC this weekend and the next (extended weekends) for the last season of black bear hunting.  Now thus far I have been skunked for two years, seeing only the smallest ethically shootable bear in the whole county last month.  80 lbs. probably and no I did not give it a thought to take it.  So, I am setting up this poll to see what everybody thinks just for the fun of it.  Comments, serious and of course funny are welcome, as well as any poking fun at me.  I invited pyro6999, but he is tied up.  Maybe next year.

Edited by Dolphin - December/10/2007 at 13:47
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tahqua Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/10/2007 at 13:49
Too much whiskey
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DOLPHIN CLEAN OUT YOUR MAILBOX I CANT SEND YOU ANYTHING!!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pyro6999 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/10/2007 at 13:53
i would love to come on a bear with you, cause the bear hunt in mn is the wrong time of year for me im busy busting my ass working 60-70hrs a week so i dont have time for bear hunting, your season would be perfect the way it sounds maybe one of these quick years i can afford it i would love to see some of the carolina area never been in that neck of the woods.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/10/2007 at 14:15
That is no problem.  I cleaned out my mailbox.  Sorry about that.  Tahqua, I sure that is going to happen!Yippee
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If the bear doesn't pan out the squirrel sounds good - tasty eating!
p.s. aim for the head thay can get downright nasty when wounded
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i want him to use a super light weight bullet and really load it hot and watch it explode! i voted with ya dogger!
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I had to go with a squirrel too
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You can't go 0 for 3 bud.Good luck.....


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Focus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/10/2007 at 15:31
I hope you see a good one, stay awake in the stand and make a good shot. I'm so jaded with where I live that I never give bear hunting much of a thought. I view them as nusiences as they like to mess with our deer cams and tear up anything that smells like food left in the woods. Left my knapsack hanging one year with some peanutbutter crackers inside....big bummer...tore my new backpack to heck and drug it quite a ways up thru the woods. I've also lost one camtracker to an angry sow that got an eyefull of flash at a couple feet.......

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What? I can't play for a trifecta of eat too much, fall asleep, and do some other stupid thing?Bucky 
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I have faith in ya, D, so I actually voted that you'd shoot a decent bear.
 
... only because the poll wouldn't allow me to make multiple selections!Wink
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dolphin, if the bear don't work out, I hear that there's a pretty good blackfin run right now.  I'll let you shoot one on the gaff with that 300 if you want! 
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Good luck, Dolphin!!
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Originally posted by Focus Focus wrote:

I hope you see a good one, stay awake in the stand and make a good shot. I'm so jaded with where I live that I never give bear hunting much of a thought. I view them as nusiences as they like to mess with our deer cams and tear up anything that smells like food left in the woods. Left my knapsack hanging one year with some peanutbutter crackers inside....big bummer...tore my new backpack to heck and drug it quite a ways up thru the woods. I've also lost one camtracker to an angry sow that got an eyefull of flash at a couple feet.......

Nice.  Maybe I should come up there and take care of that nuisance.Smile
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Originally posted by silver silver wrote:

What? I can't play for a trifecta of eat too much, fall asleep, and do some other stupid thing?Bucky 
Sure, I set it up so you can vote as many times as you want.  You know that is what is going to happen.Smile
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

I have faith in ya, D, so I actually voted that you'd shoot a decent bear.
 
... only because the poll wouldn't allow me to make multiple selections!Wink
Thanks Ted.  You know, when I set it up, I did so to let it make multiple selections, but did it on the edit function.  Maybe that is why it does not work.  Oh well.  I have two weekends to get one.  We only get one tag, so I am going to make the best of it.  I may take either my 17 hmr or mach 2 to the stand, so when light is almost gone and I am sure that a bear is not going to show, I can shoot some squirrels and not waste 2.5 bucks a bullet shooting at squirrels.  lol.
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Originally posted by cheaptrick cheaptrick wrote:

Good luck, Dolphin!!
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getting ready to head out to the woods?
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Are you hunting over bait? Up here the really big old smart ones usually come in just as the last minutes of shooting light are waning.

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